Still Life, Portraits, Urbex
Very nice silhouette photo!!! Thanks for sharing Nonoy Manga
Thank you, Nonoy! 🙂
Is that a ROLLER COASTER? Great image..
Indeed, silhouetted at that angle reminds me of a surrealist painting of ladders, just need a few people ‘climbing’ them. 🙂
A nice abstract shot! 🙂
Thanks, CK! 🙂
a fine image
Thank you, Shimon!
This is quite somehing!
Thanks GreXon! You have a great blog!
Excellent graphic shot!
Thank you, Ken!
I am amazed at how tame that old roller coaster looks, compared to the wild rides of today. It looks doubly abandoned because you know that at one time it was probably the center attraction of someplace and people were happy and screaming as they rode on it. It looks lonely.
Great photo! I am posting it on Pinterest this morning (on my Photographie Noir et Blanc board)
Thank you, Suzy! Indeed, it was fairly tame by modern standards. No fancy loops or anything. 🙂
Good work Robert.
Thank you, Victor!
Just found you – because you found me! Black and white says so much without shouting about it.
Particularly like this shot because the more I look at it the more I lose my sense of scale. Sounds weird but it’s pretty cool!
Thanks Noeline! I agree about black and white, I find myself enjoying them more and more. It forces my eye to focus on the shape and layout, rather than any distractions by color – in this shot anyway. 🙂 Your photography and blog is beautiful!
Thank you! (Bit of a delay in returning thanks as I’m still working out how to find and do things in WordPress 🙂 )
I get a mild heart attack just looking at Ferris wheels.
Haha. 🙂 I enjoy them, but there are certain ones that freak me out. Have you seen this one? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rr2X-YleVlc
excellent shot here.. love the smoothness of the image
Thank you, Z!
way cool.
LikE.
Thanks Sedge!
Really nice ! I love it!
Thank you, Leticia!
Otro contraluz espectacular Robert!!
Another spectacular cross-light Robert!!
Gracias Manoli. 🙂
wow – almost Escher-like! This is beautiful, Robert.
Thank you, Lois!
love this shot..unique perspective
Thank you! Your Westminster entry is excellent!
awesome work!
Thank you, Julianne! Your art is excellent! I love the points you make with them!
thanks so much Robert, so glad you enjoy my work. The sociopolitical messages need to be seen/heard.
thanks 🙂
Love it 🙂
Thank you, Lynda! Your daisy posts were gorgeous!
Nice photo. You don’t need that much HDR style like in other post to get a strong image 😉
Thanks but this is HDR (3 step, IIRC) also.. I’m not sure which post is the other you’re referring to, to be able to compare what you mean. 😉
WOW!, that is a big surprise, not even a million years I’d thought this was an HDR, I thought you directly exposed for the sky or maybe you used a neutral density filter.
I don’t know much about HDR, so from my ignorance I’m asking … If the photo is an HDR, souldn’t we be able to see what here is total darknes (the roller-coaster tracks)?. As far as I know an HDR (High Dinamic Range) is exactly that, an image where the dinamic range of the image let us get imformation all over the photo and here the roller-coaster tracks are with out any info (I mean pitch black), am I right on this?.
Sorry I meaner “… like in ther postS to get …” I didn’t type the S, so basically I was talking about all the post that have that HDR look.
That’s assuming the HDR is being processed by the camera. I use the camera to take three separate exposures, but that’s it. Very similar to taking b&w photos on a digital camera. Shoot in color – the black and white toning comes in post processing. In the end, you have MUCH better control versus having your camera discard all color information. The same is true for HDR.
This photo was taken with the intent of the coaster tracks being silhouetted. The idea was to morph the tracks into looking as more of a surreal ladder bending in every which way. The HDR applied was much more subtle – but still necessary (IMO) to get the sky the way it’s done. That doesn’t mean the dark has to become light always, how boring that would be! I ultimately decided against using a color version (which would’ve probably made the HDR ‘effect’ on the sky much more obvious).
But as far as the ‘hdr look’, I’m assuming you’re talking about the super high contrast clouds in my other photos? Every photo on this site for probably the past month has been HDR, not just those.
https://robertsantafede.com/2012/06/02/robert-santafede-silence/
and here:
https://robertsantafede.com/2012/05/20/robert-santafede-upon/
but..
https://robertsantafede.com/2012/05/11/robert-santafede-casting-shadows/
is probably the closest thing you’re thinking about, textbook-wise, as far as HDR.
Each photo is a different mood, each mood requires different processing. 🙂
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