My World: B&W - Grand Theatre

[Wolfgang Plattner]

HI,

looking southwards from our home, we are often visitors of nature's great Theatre ...

 

[Michael Nagel]

Wolfgang,

the backdrop is amazing, but I guess that many people asked themselves what to to with the power line...
I line the tones here.

Best regards,
Michael

 

[Asher Kelman]

HI,

looking southwards from our home, we are often visitors of nature's great Theatre ...

....the backdrop is amazing, but I guess that many people asked themselves what to to with the power line...
I line the tones here.
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Michael,

It would be a simple matter with today's "Content Aware" functions in PS to remove the power lines. So if one did it, how would the image change? It's fabulous as it is. We're faced with a sense of being asked whether or not we're good custodians of this heritage. Would it work like this "cleaned up"?

Do we in fact need the lines drawn by industrial man to make the picture interrogate us?

Asher

 

[Wolfgang Plattner]

Hi,

there are some reasons for me not to remove the power lines:
- they are there, as simple as that and therefore they belong to the scene
- they represent the power that was in the air ...
- they are an important graphic part of the scene because of there harsh and clear lines as a contrast to the hills, mountains and clouds.

 

[Sam Hames]

Hi,
there are some reasons for me not to remove the power lines:
- they are there, as simple as that and therefore they belong to the scene
...

I like this response - it's too simple to remove them. If they hadn't been there I feel like you would have taken a very different photo. Or maybe not?

I wonder what our desire to remove the human influence in photos like this says about us?

(And it's a lovely photo to look at too, quite apart from this discussion)
Sam