The environment around me

[Martin Stephens]

EDIT: I realized I named this thread wrong. New person mistake. I meant to include a couple photos related to the one heading.

I am always interested in comments regarding any reaction they create in the viewer.

Martin Stephens: Pizza at Night​

 

[Martin Stephens]

Martin Stephens: Hills​

 

[Asher Kelman]

Martin,

You might want to segregate the atmospheric night shots from the softer almost pastoral landscape. I can always rearrange posts to your preferences so for now continue to post and we can subdivide later.

Asher

 

[Asher Kelman]

EDIT: I realized I named this thread wrong. New person mistake. I meant to include a couple photos related to the one heading.

Martin Stephens: Pizza at Night​

Martin,

There's immediate impact. It's really alive! Except that the clothes are modern, this has the ambience of some 1960's roadside café. I like it and hope you'll take this further by adding siblings of like nature.

Asher

 

[Asher Kelman]

Martin Stephens: Hills​

Martin,

This image shows a different esthetic and a class of images with great potential. Is there more detail you can bring out in the clouds? The curve of the road cutting a corner of wooded slopes, is a great design.

How did this picture come about? Are there more and can you go easily back? There's a lot more to see! Would better contrast and detail be helpful or is this what you wanted? If so, my comments are to be ignored.

Asher

 

[Martin Stephens]

Martin,

This image shows a different esthetic and a class of images with great potential. Is there more detail you can bring out in the clouds? The curve of the road cutting a corner of wooded slopes, is a great design.

How did this picture come about? Are there more and can you go easily back? There's a lot more to see! Would better contrast and detail be helpful or is this what you wanted? If so, my comments are to be ignored.

Asher

I realize I did not explain my intent - sorry. My intent was to show a range of my typical environmental photographs, to see if they raise "interest of any kind" in the viewer. If they reach people in any way.

On the B&W image, there's not much rez or DR left in this neg beyond what you see. Sky mostly blown. Cold, rainy day while driving the road through hills. I have maybe 3 more in this set. I can perhaps post another? The road felt mythic and dreamy against these soft hills. Thank you for the comment.

 

[Martin Stephens]

Martin Stephens: hills 2​

This is another in that few minutes of space. Once more, the neg is maxed out.

 

[Martin Stephens]

Martin Stephens: hills 3​

This is the last of the 3 taken.

 

[Jerome Marot]

I realize I did not explain my intent - sorry. My intent was to show a range of my typical environmental photographs, to see if they raise "interest of any kind" in the viewer. If they reach people in any way.

I like the 3 B&W pictures very much. The tonalities are well chosen to fit this kind of landscape and weather.