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JimiThing said 302 days ago:
Ana said 302 days ago:
This is real! Not a model!
The tower, built in 1869 by architect William W. Boyington from yellowing Joliet limestone, is 154 feet tall. Inside was a 138 foot high standpipe to hold water. In addition to being used for firefighting, the pressure in the pipe could be regulated to control water surges in the area.
The tower gained notoriety after the Great Chicago Fire of 1871. While some incorrectly believe that the tower was the only building to survive the fire, a few other buildings in the burned district survived along with the tower. But the water tower was the only public building in the burned zone to survive, and is the only one of the surviving structures still standing. In the years since the fire, the tower has become a symbol of old Chicago and of the city's rebirth from the fire's ashes.
flipthom said 302 days ago:
Buildings like this are extemely hard to capture while keeping everything balanced and you've done a super job. The processing and detail are very nice. High marks.
Beamer said 302 days ago:
What an interesting building. For me, 2 or 3 steps to the left and center the tower between the 2 buildings might make a more interesting compo?? Tonal range feels just a little flat.
Ana said 302 days ago:
you sure do have a thing with tonal range, don't you??
haha.
please do tell me how you'd improve the tonal range of this shot!
Beamer said 301 days ago:
There is very little white in this image, a lot of midrange grays and very little black. The image is striking in subject and composition, despite my comment bout centering the tower. I just think that if the contrast was boosted a little it would really pop. I'm sure that a lot of my reaction is influenced by the sky, which is unfortunately flat.
I'm not talking about much, just a little boost.
I took the liberty of downloading to my desktop and opening in PS. One thing immediately happened. I liked it better when looking at it in PS, because the neutral gray background of my PS window doesn't fight it so much as the stark white of WS. Then I did a very slight level adjustment to pull just a little more into white and black, then copied that layer and made the copy soft light at 30% opacity. To my taste...which as I have said is probably biased, I then liked it even better.
Ana said 301 days ago:
stepping to the left makes that smaller building look like part of the front building...it was not a good place, and the more left I went, the more that smaller/right tower got lost...It needed to have some sky with it. There were cars and people all around, so getting a shot without either was another goal.
Thank you for the ideas on making it a bit more interesting.
Funny, though...my play around shot got a way better score than my actual serious one.
I mean...WAY better.
panadero said 301 days ago:
ah chicago, like this image,nice composition
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The perspective of this almost makes it look like a model. The proportions seem to be off somehow. Perhaps that is just the building, but I think the angle of the shot adds to that effect some too.