“Civilization”

by Robert Santafede

"Civilization" by Robert Santafede

17 Comments to ““Civilization””

  1. mehmudah's avatar
  2. Face's avatar

    Love the composition!

  3. niasunset's avatar

    You caught and captured nice image, Thank you dear Robert, with my love, nia

  4. marcus dilano's avatar

    Robert you sure do know how to take something that I would never think to consider shooting and make it very interesting. Is this the outside of a defunct factory or store? Is the light coming from a streetlight or did you use a flash? Well done again!!!

    • Robert Santafede's avatar

      Thanks MDP! It’s a bad habit. I tend to go through phases – I’ll spend a week wandering around ‘exploring’ trying to find locations like this one. The nice thing is you’ll never run out of content though!

      I’m not quite sure if it was totally abandoned, certain areas were still lit, but it’s definitely beat the hell up and it was pretty desolate there. The light is a combination of streetlights (Angeline had it correct two posts down) and the lighting under the awning. It was shot behind glass which picked up the street lights (upper center and left). I made the yellowish hue ‘pop’ a bit more, and as Ken below mentioned, upped the contrast to really get some of the texture and rust to come through.

  5. ken bello's avatar

    Great composition and high contrast lighting, yet a little mysterious.

  6. Angeline Suze's avatar

    Wonderful shot! I have the same questions as mdphotographers…is that a reflection in the black area? Or is it a panel that we’re looking through to lights in the distance? Fascinating.

  7. Robert Santafede's avatar

    Thank you Angeline! Good eye on recognizing the lights! I think I answered your question to MDP. 🙂

  8. ciluuk's avatar

    aih…. you have a great vintage color, amazing!

  9. Cardinal Guzman's avatar

    I like the work you did on the color of this photo. Great use of light as well!

  10. ahardyperspective's avatar

    wouldn’t have known it was shot behind glass, made a pretty cool effect. nice work

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