Here's an older one that I took on provia, boy do I regret using that flat film... Click for larger and more info!
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Ugh, no comments? I guess it really was as bad as I thought.
Just my opinion, but it's way too busy for me. There's so much going on in the picture that the viewer's eye doesn't know where to go.
I'm curious why you don't like Provia, too. It was sort of my standard towards the end of my film days. I rather liked it. The colors were punchy, but not over the top. The grain was fine. There was actually a fair amount of latitude for a slide film. It was a nice, general purpose film to me.
-ChrisWest Chicago, ILChristopher May Fine Art Photography"In wisdom gathered over time I have found that every experience is a form of exploration." ~Ansel Adams
I'm reluctant to criticize too much since it's better than most of mine, but . . .
Methinks it's 'zoomed in' too much. It's hard to get a sense of the setting or 'scene' with both ends of the weir/ dam and embankments cut off, and the right end of the bridge as well.
I had to look really hard to tell the direction the train was heading - the dark gondola mostly hidden behind the bridge members, trees, and shadows doesn't stand out too much to provide that visual clue - and the back-to-back locos don't help either. It might have been better to wait until more cars were on the bridge to indicate that.
One thing you couldn't do much about is the thick bridge members and resulting wide shadows, which go a suurprisingly long ways towards effectively hiding the locomotives. Also, the high sun casts deep shadows under the radiator 'wings', and to a lesser extent under the frame below the walkway. I wonder how this would have looked if it had been with either a heavy overcast = no shadows sky, or a very low sun angle just after sunrise/ before sunset ? Though in the former, you would not have had the deep colors and contrasts, which I kind of like.
Finally, I like how your location illustrates the drop in the water level over the weir/ dam - kind of like looking up a staircase. That would have been hard to portray from most other locations, I suspect.
I don't hate it - just since you were looking for reactions, that's what came to mind. I just might download it and use it as the 'wallpaper' on my computer for a while, if thats' OK with you - personal use only, of course.
Thanks for sharing, too !
- Paul North.
I agree with the above assessment. Photo is a bit busy for my tastes, although nicely composed and taken...no problems there. The film seems fine, perhaps a bit saturated in the rendering if it wasn't done subsequently.
-Crandell
A very typical "Calgary" photo, definitely shows the clear Alberta sky, the weir in the photo diverts the Bow River to irrigation canals to the right of the photo, note in the background on the left are orange floats, these are usually strung across the river to warn canoeists of the impending wier, the sign on the right side(not visible) refers to the wier as a "drowning machine" once you are in it you cannot get out of the backflow
I have never heard the bridge referred to as the Bengal.
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