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Collateral damage of a modern society
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Sun Apr 22, 2007 12:35 pmby MHD
Industry
D200+Sigma70-200
Taken just outside Southern cross station in Melbourne looking south west...
Posted:
Sun Apr 22, 2007 1:00 pmby Nnnnsic
Doesn't do much for me compositionally, I'm afraid, and your horizon seems out.
Posted:
Sun Apr 22, 2007 5:03 pmby mark
The exposure and colours look great in this.
Perhaps you could straighten it then crop to Landscape. I'd crop somewhere around the arches in the foreground building and loose more of the sky, although I'm not sure the smoke stack will fit in a standard 3x2 crop.
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Sun Apr 22, 2007 5:08 pmby Killakoala
I looked at it for a while and decided it disgusts me. So it must be a good photo to invoke an emotional response from me
Well done Scott.
Fix That Horizon.
Posted:
Sun Apr 22, 2007 7:32 pmby daniel_r
I reckon if you crop it at the gutter line on the foreground building that'd fix it up (along with a bit of a straighten). Colour looks good.
Posted:
Sun Apr 22, 2007 10:47 pmby MHD
Killakoala wrote:I looked at it for a while and decided it disgusts me. So it must be a good photo to invoke an emotional response from me
Well done Scott.
Fix That Horizon.
That was the aim... At that time in the morning there is no blue in the sky so it accentuates the bleakness...
I will play (as much as you can) with the composition through cropping and see what I get...
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Mon Apr 23, 2007 10:24 amby Reschsmooth
I, personally, don't know what the photo is trying to say - that we live in an industrialised country where small to large areas of our landscape are dominated by industry? Perphaps if the smokestack was billowing, the effect or the message may have been stronger.
I could suggest that a similar shot taken over Mosman, Sydney, could be equally as harrowing given the knowledge that residents of Mosman have one of the largest ecological footprint in Australia, if not most developed countries.
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