C&C appreciated: Desaturated Glowy Growth House!

[Compaq]

This is one of the growth houses the University has. The lighting was pretty remarkable this night.

What I've done here is converting to black and white, then masking in SOME of the colour in the houses and the sky - not everything. The brush was set to 40% or something. I just wanted to show the glow, and emphasize on those colours on the house and in the sky in the scene, the rest isn't overly interesting. I think this works pretty well, actually! I'm happy with it! I get a weird sort of feeling looking at it, but it's hard for me to judge properly myself.

This has been tonemapped in photomatix to get as much detail as possible in the entire range of brightness values. Taken with a 40D and Tokina 12-24mm/4.

Anyway, take a look, and I thank you for your opinions!


Veksthus, UMB by Anders Myhre Brakestad, on Flickr

 

[Hickeydog]

I'm not sure if I like it, but I spent a good minute just staring at it. It's definitely an eye catcher, that's for sure.

 

[pgriz]

I didn't know the university had nuclear reactors!

 

[Compaq]

I'm not sure if I like it, but I spent a good minute just staring at it. It's definitely an eye catcher, that's for sure.

Hehe, I'll take what I can get

 

[LaFoto]

I must say that I like what you did here. I like that you saw what the sky and light were offering you and took that chance. And I like how you tried to make the best of it by tonemapping and desaturation. You sure created an image that makes people look and think.
Nevertheless, I'm quite curious to see the original just for once (maybe?)

 

[Compaq]

I must say that I like what you did here. I like that you saw what the sky and light were offering you and took that chance. And I like how you tried to make the best of it by tonemapping and desaturation. You sure created an image that makes people look and think.
Nevertheless, I'm quite curious to see the original just for once (maybe?)

I'm revising for exams just now, but will post one og the unedited files later today!
And thanks a lot!

 

[Compaq]

Here's one exposure pretty close to an average of the five six I took. Probably didn't need six, but....

edit: looking at this, my edited version doesn't really look desaturated But it were much more colourful out of photomatix.

 

[Frequency]

I like the lighting and details in the first image very much.....

 

[Tiberius47]

Would be great to have a silhouette of someone inside.

 

[Compaq]

Too many times am I getting responses that say I should have had a person in there somewhere! LOL I'm not big on props, but I agree it would add another dimension of mystery. I like to shoot alone, and can't place people where want. Thanks for the tip, I should try to remember it in the future!