Another old, abandoned building in Galveston. This one was interesting to me for the color combinations of the different greens and the red brick, along with the diagonal of the stairs and the way they end right at that strange pipe/vent sticking out of the plywood. The day I shot this was overcast so there are no strong shadows to give much depth to the shot. I added a texture layer in Multiply at 35% and in Soft Light at 21% and masked most of it off of the green plywood and the lower floor in between the columns.
I think it still needs some kind of an edge, it just looks too abrupt the way the columns are cut in half, or something...but I don't know what would help. I also had some strange bowing with the window sills not being level so tried to do some warping to push them back in a straight line but something still seems off. Maybe I am just getting tired of Galveston architecture! Time to take a break and the next posts will be something different.
Interesting building. I think I took some shots of it while at Dickens this year. I liked the colors and the angle of the stairs on the fire escape. Play around with it a little and see what you can come up with. I'll see if I still have mine.
ReplyDeleteWell, I DID play around with it and this is what I ended up with! The only thing I can think to do is add a black frame like yesterday's image. I may need to go back to the original and start over but it took forever to crop and use the perspective tool and then the warp feature to get it as straight as this and now I think it is too cropped in, or something. Maybe it needs a person at the top of the stairs...a bride would be perfect!
ReplyDeleteWere you upstairs in the building across the street, because it looks like it's not from street level. I took basically this same shot a while ago -- it's on my blog here:
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Where's Lauren when you need her, huh?
I was alluding to applying the edge treatment you mentioned in your post, not that you hadn't done anything to it.
ReplyDeleteVery strong image. Good combination of colors and shapes.
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