Strip Mall Office

Posted by grant (kansas city, United States) on 11 November 2008 in Business & Industry and Portfolio.

Overland Park, Kansas
Fuji GS645
Tmax 100

Observing from West Cheshire, United Kingdom

Those shadows and sunlight again, just perfect. Grant something that I haven't seen in your images are the jpeg compression artifacts, evident in this shot.

11 Nov 2008 7:31am

@Observing: thanks mike. as you can see, there's been a bit of discussion about the artifact question. i don't see them, but that doesn't mean they aren't there. is there any particular place on the image?

Rachael from Heber Springs, United States

It's as if we're looking into a world we cannot enter. I like everything as you've captured it. A fantastic capture.

11 Nov 2008 2:30pm

@Rachael: thanks rachael

don from United States

I like your composition very much. I'm especially impressed with the subtle details
visible behind the chair. Nice one.

11 Nov 2008 2:56pm

@don: thank you don

daina from New York, United States

Great use of shadows again and I seem to recognize that terrific chair - love the brochures... Grant I don't see even a hint of artifacts in your image on my monitors (I checked both). I have a new monitor with high resolution and I rarely see any artifacts when processing my own images, but sometimes when I check them on another monitor (which is the same size but lower resolution) I see artifacts and grain and the pictures are faded as well. Even with the same calibration resolution can change everything. I personally tend to ignore most comments (no offence) on whether an image is too dark or has too much grain etc. because of the huge differences in monitors. It is impossible to adjust for all the variations.

11 Nov 2008 3:14pm

@daina: thanks daina. i don't see them myself, but as i said to mike, that doesn't mean they aren't there. i don't have nearly your technical sophistication. i know what you mean about monitors though. i have very similar monitors at work and home, and photos look darker at work.

ordinaryimages from Kentucky Bluegrass, United States

For such a simple view, there is subtle mystery within the cast shadow and reflections. I see no artifacts, but perhaps a little patina of the T-Max in the darks. best...jerry

11 Nov 2008 3:40pm

@ordinaryimages: thanks jerry

yiannis krikis from thessaloniki, Greece

I like the shadow that cuts the chair in two pieces

11 Nov 2008 4:36pm

@yiannis krikis: thanks yiannis

Howard F. from South Pasadena, Calif., United States

Looks like a big & comfy leather chair.

11 Nov 2008 6:57pm

@Howard F.: it does, but i'm not sure how i'd feel about being on the other side of a glass wall from the sidewalk.

JJ from Jersey City, United States

you have an amazing eye for capturing anything with wonderful use of light and shadow, another superb capture

12 Nov 2008 1:13am

@JJ: thanks jj

Stephen Phillips from San Francisco, United States

I love the subtlety of that shadow bisecting the chair and the play of light in the leaves. Very nice.

12 Nov 2008 1:30am

@Stephen Phillips: thanks stephen

Mindy from United States

Wow! Amazing how you bring out such character, even in a strip mall. Great eye and technique.

12 Nov 2008 1:32am

@Mindy: thanks mindy

Lucca from Cologne, Germany

I'm a bit jealous about your great photos … sob

12 Nov 2008 5:17pm

@Lucca: i see your photos...nothing to be jealous about...dry your tears lucca :-)

bluechameleon from Vancouver, Canada

Those shadows just add so much to this image, and paired with the reflective glass there is an intriguing mood created. Nice.

12 Nov 2008 9:24pm

Twelvebit from Victoria, United States

I would have guessed furniture store. Nice eye on this one. Did you consider correcting the perspective to make the window frames vertical, or do you prefer the perspective distortion? I'm not sure which choice would work best here.

14 Nov 2008 5:42pm

@Twelvebit: i didn't consider it only because i don't know how - i thought you needed a large format camera to do that sort of thing.

Twelvebit from Victoria, United States

It's about a 60 second job in Photoshop. I only have Photoshop Elements 5, but basically you just use one of the perspective correct ion modes --like free distortion. In this case you could probably do a reasonable correcton just by dragging the top right and left corner horizontally to make the rather slight vertical correction. It gets more complicated, especially when you have two or three point perspective, and often results in losing part of the image, but in this case, you might be able to make the adjustment without losing anything important.

14 Nov 2008 9:18pm

@Twelvebit: i'm going to give it a try, thanks!

Annie Viguié from Bordeaux, France

In this photo I like the play between vertical (curtain?) in the left, armchair, small vertical post in the right who take light very well...and the other part of the photo in the shadow.

16 Nov 2008 6:08am