Corran Ruins Old Brickwork

[PixelRabbit]

This is a shot of the brickwork at the ruins of the Corran House in Bruce County.
I messed with edges when I was shooting trying to make ambiguity, this one was pretty successful imho
I can't stop looking at it and would love to hear your thoughts!
Thanks for taking a look

 

[sleist]

There's not enough shadow for my eyes to make a distinction between edges or gauge depth. You're forcing me to rely on focus (or lack there of).
I keep scanning to find something to lock onto.
I think I see what you like here, but I have to work too hard to get there.

Perhaps some contrast, curves, or black point adjustment, or maybe some selective burning might help.

Perhaps B&W is not the best choice?

 

[PixelRabbit]

Thanks Sleist, this is one of those cases where I reeeeeeeeeeally like a shot and nobody else really seems to lol

Yes, making you hash out what is behind/in front of what by only focus was intentional, I like that it makes me try to work it out but I'm weird like that

Since I'm the only one that seems to love it I will revisit for sure, I'll give colour a shot and see if that helps but the bricks are yellow... ew... not my favourite colour, perhaps my dislike of the colour is jading my view of that version though...

 

[PixelRabbit]

Oh and love the new avatar! That's a good kitty

 

[PixelRabbit]

Here is the colour edit that was used for the conversion, thought I would post it in case it's my aversion to yellow

 

[Braineack]

is the picture upsidedown?

 

[PixelRabbit]

maybe....

 

[sm4him]

I played with this a little. I realize that this takes it in a totally different direction from where you were, and I'm hesitant to post it, because it makes it MY vision rather than yours, but on the other hand--maybe it'll give you some "food for thought" and you'll take it a whole NEW direction.

So, with apologies to the original artist:

I'd crop the fool out of that baby--I'd make it ALL about those bricks you can see, and the lines. For ME, the other stuff on the left is just kind of distracting and doesn't really "fit" the rest of the image, in my head.

And if you don't like the yellow, why not tone that down? I added a sepia filter and then desaturated it a good bit:


I think it also works a little better as a b&w without as much of the rocks on the left:


If you hate it, I apologize for messing with your creation. If you like it, you're welcome. :lmao:

 

[sleist]

Oh and love the new avatar! That's a good kitty

 

[PixelRabbit]

I played with this a little. I realize that this takes it in a totally different direction from where you were, and I'm hesitant to post it, because it makes it MY vision rather than yours, but on the other hand--maybe it'll give you some "food for thought" and you'll take it a whole NEW direction.

So, with apologies to the original artist:

I'd crop the fool out of that baby--I'd make it ALL about those bricks you can see, and the lines. For ME, the other stuff on the left is just kind of distracting and doesn't really "fit" the rest of the image, in my head.

And if you don't like the yellow, why not tone that down? I added a sepia filter and then desaturated it a good bit:
View attachment 58660

I think it also works a little better as a b&w without as much of the rocks on the left:
View attachment 58661

If you hate it, I apologize for messing with your creation. If you like it, you're welcome. :lmao:

Sharon, thanks so much for taking the time to do the edits, I like them! It is definitely food for thought, I think yours is a little less ambiguous and doesn't force you to try to figure it out as much as mine does, I don't think you changed the vision I had for this much if at all, it's just a different take on it, when I started reading the notification email (no pictures) I was quite worried that you were going to totally eliminate the left side, THAT would have totally lost what I was shooting for
I'm going to keep tinkering with this one, while I do really like my original edits and will keep them also I think there is something in here to bring out and you are close too

 

[sm4him]

I played with this a little. I realize that this takes it in a totally different direction from where you were, and I'm hesitant to post it, because it makes it MY vision rather than yours, but on the other hand--maybe it'll give you some "food for thought" and you'll take it a whole NEW direction.

So, with apologies to the original artist:

I'd crop the fool out of that baby--I'd make it ALL about those bricks you can see, and the lines. For ME, the other stuff on the left is just kind of distracting and doesn't really "fit" the rest of the image, in my head.

And if you don't like the yellow, why not tone that down? I added a sepia filter and then desaturated it a good bit:
View attachment 58660

I think it also works a little better as a b&w without as much of the rocks on the left:
View attachment 58661

If you hate it, I apologize for messing with your creation. If you like it, you're welcome. :lmao:

Sharon, thanks so much for taking the time to do the edits, I like them! It is definitely food for thought, I think yours is a little less ambiguous and doesn't force you to try to figure it out as much as mine does, I don't think you changed the vision I had for this much if at all, it's just a different take on it, when I started reading the notification email (no pictures) I was quite worried that you were going to totally eliminate the left side, THAT would have totally lost what I was shooting for
I'm going to keep tinkering with this one, while I do really like my original edits and will keep them also I think there is something in here to bring out and you are close too

Actually, I would have kept a little more of the left side in, but I couldn't do that and still get the other lines to fall where I wanted them.
I definitely think there's something there and it's worth continuing to play with--I'll be interested in seeing what you come up with.

 

[ronlane]

I see the different textures? in this but I am struggling. I think after looking back through them, I prefer Sharon's b&w conversion and cropping best.

 

[PixelRabbit]

Thanks Ron

 

[vintagesnaps]

For me none of this is really working, just too busy visually I think to focus on anything. Something almost looks off in the original color version, wondered for a minute if it was a bit of shutter blur (it doesn't look it but something made that come to mind), or something to do with the original exposure/depth of field.

The B&W version is really all shades of gray because there doesn't seem to be any white and not much dark gray much less black; the original is almost all the same tone/value, there really isn't much contrast there to work real well in B&W (at least from my experience learning and doing B&W).

 

[PixelRabbit]

Thanks so much for your thoughts Sharon, I will carry them forward when I revisit. I agree that normally I would look for a great contrasty picture for B&W, this time it was for other reasons (namely the yellow )

Ok so I'm getting more and more convinced I'm nuts, one of the reasons for the composition I chose was the faces, it boggles my mind that others don't see them!