This photo makes me feel "strange"

[Tight Knot]

Hi all,

Any ideas on this photo?
In some ways, it feels like nothing more than a snapshot, and at the same time, I feel a story here. Showing the abandoned house with pink flower growth and the tree next to it, and the grove of trees leading up to it, and the leading lines in the trees and the electrical wires all leading to the house, with the habitable buildings on the horizon.

I know the horizon is +- in the middle, but after countless crops, I feel that helps the image, and doesn't harm it. Rule of thirds notwithstanding.

Looking for some C&C.

Thanks.

 

[Scatterbrained]

Yeah, I'd have to agree with you, in so much as I don't quite know how I feel about it either. It has the feel of an establishing shot from a movie actually.

 

[BrickHouse]

I get this sense of "nature retaking". As the expansive metropolis in the distance withers and retreats (as evidenced by the old house in the midground), nature begins to advance and take back over. Maybe it's not so much nature winning back ground so much as it is the city people realizing what they lost and replanting. I really like it after seeing it full size.

 

[Tight Knot]

Yeah, I'd have to agree with you, in so much as I don't quite know how I feel about it either. It has the feel of an establishing shot from a movie actually.

Thanks for the C&C Scatterbrained.

 

[Tight Knot]

I get this sense of "nature retaking". As the expansive metropolis in the distance withers and retreats (as evidenced by the old house in the midground), nature begins to advance and take back over. Maybe it's not so much nature winning back ground so much as it is the city people realizing what they lost and replanting. I really like it after seeing it full size.

Hi Brickhouse, Thanks for the C&C.

 

[Scatterbrained]

Definitely feels like an establishing shot to me. . . . .of course, it could be that I've been watching too much T.V. lately.

I did some color grading on it to get that suspenseful crime drama movie feel. . . . .



The more I look at this image, the more it grows on me.

 

[Tight Knot]

Definitely feels like an establishing shot to me. . . . .of course, it could be that I've been watching too much T.V. lately.

I did some color grading on it to get that suspenseful crime drama movie feel. . . . .



The more I look at this image, the more it grows on me.

Looks really good like this. How did you pp it?

 

[Scatterbrained]

Definitely feels like an establishing shot to me. . . . .of course, it could be that I've been watching too much T.V. lately.

I did some color grading on it to get that suspenseful crime drama movie feel. . . . .



The more I look at this image, the more it grows on me.

Looks really good like this. How did you pp it?

First I cropped it to 16x9, bringing the tree and house a bit over to the right. Then I added a blue to yellow gradient map, set to color blend mode at about 30% opacity. Then I added a positive exposure offset of about +.128. Next I used the color picker to select the color of the sky right at the horizon. I created a new layer and brushed this in at 50% on the buildings all along the horizon. Then I reduced the brush opacity again to about 20% and brushed the background plants along the same plane as the building (but not the building). After that I reduced it to just under 10% and brushed the foreground. The I added Gaussian noise (monochromatic) at 1% (this value come from the low size of the image too, it's not a fixed thing) to the color layer and reduced it's opacity to about 50%. After that I added a high pass layer set to soft light at about 2.5 pixels width (again this is a value determined by the image size), masked into the building at 100% and a triangular area of foreground at about 20%, just to help bring the building out a bit more. After that I flattened the image and adjusting the crop back to a 2x3. Created a new layer under the image and filled it with black.

 

[TammyCampbell]

Like an aging treatment.. Intriguing shot.

 

[Tight Knot]

Definitely feels like an establishing shot to me. . . . .of course, it could be that I've been watching too much T.V. lately.

I did some color grading on it to get that suspenseful crime drama movie feel. . . . .



The more I look at this image, the more it grows on me.

Looks really good like this. How did you pp it?

First I cropped it to 16x9, bringing the tree and house a bit over to the right. Then I added a blue to yellow gradient map, set to color blend mode at about 30% opacity. Then I added a positive exposure offset of about +.128. Next I used the color picker to select the color of the sky right at the horizon. I created a new layer and brushed this in at 50% on the buildings all along the horizon. Then I reduced the brush opacity again to about 20% and brushed the background plants along the same plane as the building (but not the building). After that I reduced it to just under 10% and brushed the foreground. The I added Gaussian noise (monochromatic) at 1% (this value come from the low size of the image too, it's not a fixed thing) to the color layer and reduced it's opacity to about 50%. After that I added a high pass layer set to soft light at about 2.5 pixels width (again this is a value determined by the image size), masked into the building at 100% and a triangular area of foreground at about 20%, just to help bring the building out a bit more. After that I flattened the image and adjusting the crop back to a 2x3. Created a new layer under the image and filled it with black.

Thanks Scatterbrained.

I'm going to have to try this :thumbup:

 

[pgriz]

I see the tension between the abandoned house on the hill, and the obvious activity all around (planted grove, electrical wires, busy apartments further away). Usually, a hilltop location would be considered a "prime" location. But here, it is not. Do you know the story here?

 

[Tight Knot]

I see the tension between the abandoned house on the hill, and the obvious activity all around (planted grove, electrical wires, busy apartments further away). Usually, a hilltop location would be considered a "prime" location. But here, it is not. Do you know the story here?

The usual story here.
It's an abandoned house from one of the numerous wars. Now, the area is used just for planting on, not living on. Exactly as it used to be, as there weren't many people living here even during the time that the house was inhabitable.

 

[hamlet]

Definitely feels like an establishing shot to me. . . . .of course, it could be that I've been watching too much T.V. lately.

I did some color grading on it to get that suspenseful crime drama movie feel. . . . .



The more I look at this image, the more it grows on me.

This really does give me a movie feeling. To put it more specifically, it reminds me of that scene in the godfather where don corleone is with his mother pleading to the local warlord to be spared. I think his mother got shot trying to protect him.

 

[astroNikon]

the bushes are all planted, not naturally grown. So they are in rows.
From that perspective the bushes somewhat looks like an arrow pointing to the house.

Wish the electrical wires weren't there.

 

[hamlet]

the bushes are all planted, not naturally grown. So they are in rows.
From that perspective the bushes somewhat looks like an arrow pointing to the house.

Wish the electrical wires weren't there.

They are in a easy place, it can be removed easily.