Sir Titus Salt

[Starskream666]

 

[robbins.photo]

Sir Titus Salt

Is that the guy that invented pepper?

 

[vintagesnaps]

I don't know who he is or what he might have invented! lol leave it to you Robbins! - but nice photo of him. I think it works well in B&W because there are so many tones of light and dark, which gives it some nice texture and interest.

 

[robbins.photo]

I don't know who he is or what he might have invented! lol leave it to you Robbins! - but nice photo of him. I think it works well in B&W because there are so many tones of light and dark, which gives it some nice texture and interest.

Well total shot in the dark for me really, just figured he would have had to have contributed something really serious in the way of condiments or he wouldn't have his own statue.. lol.

 

[Starskream666]

Salts Mill. Look it up

 

[robbins.photo]

Salts Mill. Look it up

You mean google something? Perish the thought.

 

[timor]

Salts Mill. Look it up

Good one...
In fact a very interesting fellow, actually a guy larger than life. I hope this statue is really big. He deserved a big one.

 

[manaheim]

It's a picture of a statue. Statue pictures are basically you taking an image of someone else's art, so you have to do a lot of work to make the completed piece your own. I don't think you've done that here.

Sir Titus Salt

Is that the guy that invented pepper?

Only you.

 

[robbins.photo]

It's a picture of a statue. Statue pictures are basically you taking an image of someone else's art, so you have to do a lot of work to make the completed piece your own. I don't think you've done that here.

Sir Titus Salt

Is that the guy that invented pepper?

Only you.

It's my unique charism, granted. Lol

 

[Starskream666]

It's a picture of a statue. Statue pictures are basically you taking an image of someone else's art, so you have to do a lot of work to make the completed piece your own. I don't think you've done that here.

Not a fan of architecture photography then no?

 

[vintagesnaps]

I might think about a slight adjustment on the contrast, see if it would enhance it to have the white a bit brighter and the black darker. Or not. LOL I'm just thinking it might bring out the texture of the stone even more.

I like the way the light is hitting the subject. If you photograph it again sometime, you could probably even take it further, maybe think about the texture of the stone up close. I've done that and gone abstract with it so you wouldn't know what it was, you just see the shapes and tones etc.

 

[manaheim]

It's a picture of a statue. Statue pictures are basically you taking an image of someone else's art, so you have to do a lot of work to make the completed piece your own. I don't think you've done that here.

Not a fan of architecture photography then no?

Yes, I certainly am, but just because you take a picture of something that happens to fit into the broad application of the term "architecture photography", does not mean that it is an effective presentation of that actual subject.

As I said, you are taking a picture of someone else's work. If I shot a picture of the Mona Lisa and posted it up here, would you look at the picture and go "Wow, what an amazing picture!"? No. You would be like "errr... ok, you took a picture of the Mona Lisa." Statues are a less obvious example of the same problem.

In order to use someone else's work as a part of a photograph, you need to bring in elements that make the overall scene as much your own as possible. Lighting, weather, scenic surroundings, etc. all factor in. Also, unique angles and elevations, which I actually think you DO have here, but I don't think you have enough of the other elements to carry the image.

I take pictures of statues, myself... but very few of them make the cut. And... as much as I like them... I don't really feel like they hold up that well as a standalone piece of art, and most people who see them generally feel kind of lukewarm about them.

^ taken at the very beginnings of a storm, off-camera flash using umbrellas which I had to hold down with my laptop backpack and sandbags because the wind was blowing so hard.

^ taking advantage of the fall foliage on a beautiful sunny day.

^ using a cream-in-the-coffee sky to give a certain feel.

And, really... I don't consider these architectural photography.

THESE are architectural...

 

[manaheim]

BTW, you also have your subject pretty close to dead-center frame with way too much dead space at the top of the image. Some cropping would help.

 

[robbins.photo]

As I said, you are taking a picture of someone else's work. If I shot a picture of the Mona Lisa and posted it up here, would you look at the picture and go "Wow, what an amazing picture!"? No. You would be like "errr... ok, you took a picture of the Mona Lisa." Statues are a less obvious example of the same problem.

Manny, honestly sometimes you baffle me. How can you possibly compare a painting of some Italian chick who obviously downed far more than one to many pizza's to a statue of the guy that invented pepper?

 

[vintagesnaps]

What an amazing looking place! Love the pano on their site that just keeps going and going... if I lived near there I'd probably be in there all the time! So where is Mr. Salt? the statue that is.

Maybe he's related to the Be a Pepper guy.