Like said in my previous post, I have decided to pay homage to the works of Joel Tjinteleer. To do this, I have taken the following aspects of his work into consideration: vision in urban architecture, line structure and black and white to bring out attention to other design principles.
When I was at the top of the Myers' center, I took a series of architectural shots using a Canon 1000d - with a 55-200mm zoom lens attached. A snippet of my shots can be seen in the screenshot above.
The shots below involved a reflection off windows, that is why the images look mirrored/symmetrical. I felt that the mirror made a very interesting perspective. The lines and shapes given out by the texture and objects were very appealing and fresh. I took several shot of the same subject, as seen in my screenshots. Experimenting with both landscape and portrait compositions.
I was stuck between two of the pieces. If you look closely on the screenshot above, there's a faint numbering system occuring. 601 602 603 ... 608.
The two pieces I shortlisted were 602 and 608. (second and second last shot.)
But I had to go with 602, as I felt that it exaggerated the shape and line structure more.
The shot can be seen below.
The EXIF data for the image shown above is :
- Camera Canon EOS 1000D
- Exposure 0.04 sec (1/25)
- Aperture f/3.5
- Focal Length 18 mm
- ISO Speed 400
- Exposure Bias +1 EV
From here I started doing some standard processing.
I first started processing it in Adobe Lightroom 2.5.
1. Converted to greyscale (black and white settings are shown below)
2. Increased the blacks and clarity
3. Decreased contrast
4. Added a curves layer which made the highlights and darks in the photograph darker.
5. I cropped the photo to emphasize the line and shapes in photograph.
I then imported the photograph into photoshop for some high pass sharpening + unmask sharpening.
Resized for general output (web), I also kept a relatively large version for printing.
Remember the other photograph in the shortlist? Well, I continued working with the image as well. The final outcome can be seen below. But then again, it's in colour, so it won't relate to Joel's photographs all that well. I personally like the vibrancy in this piece.
Anyways, I am quite happy with this outcome.
Jonathan Lim
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