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Photographer Thilo Bayer  Thilo Bayer {Karma:50358}
Project #40 Street Photography Camera Model Pentax Optio 555
Categories Architecture
Cityscape
Street
Film Format
Portfolio Geometry & Perspectives
Street Life
Architecture
Lens Pentax  Optio 555 Fixed Lens
Uploaded 10/30/2004 Film / Memory Type ISO 64
    ISO / Film Speed 0
Views 610 Shutter 1/250
Favorites Aperture f/5.6
Critiques 32 Rating
5.50
/ 8 Ratings
Location City -  San Francisco
State -  CALIFORNIA
Country - United States   United States
About Subject background: Chinatown, San Francisco.
A street sign.
A street sign that has obviously seen better times.
A street sign that could tell a lot of stories from the past, good & bad ones.
A street sign that will probably even be there when we're not anymore.
Wisdom of age, burden of the past...
A street sign.

PS concept: Desaturated the colors, slight crop, tried to get an aged look.

As always: Honest feedback highly appreciated.
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There are 32 Comments in 1 Pages
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Thilo Bayer Thilo Bayer   {K:50358} 11/5/2004
Hi Cenk,

thanks a lot for your constructive feedback.

take care,
thilo

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Cenk KIRBAS   {K:1739} 11/1/2004
Good composition. Good way of telling about the east and west comming across. One of those "every picture of you tells a story" . congrats.

By the way I also liked the B&W touch by arwa abdullah.

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Jeanette Hägglund Jeanette Hägglund   {K:59855} 11/1/2004
Beautiful sign and wonderful patina.

Jeanette

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Uwe Bachmann   {K:10222} 11/1/2004
chinese food and coca-cola....da kommen welten zusammen, die sonst nicht zusammen passen wollen. die besten zeiten scheinen vorbei, ja, aber ich fürchte fast, das schlimmste kommt erst noch....hier wie dort....(habe heute meine hobby-philosophischen 10minuten des tages bei usefilm verbracht....)

gutes auge mal wieder bewiesen...

vg, uwe

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Thilo Bayer Thilo Bayer   {K:50358} 10/31/2004
Dear Elisa,

you brought in a very new aspect here. thanks for doing this.

take care,
Thilo

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Thilo Bayer Thilo Bayer   {K:50358} 10/31/2004
Hi Steve,

back from holidays? hope you had a great time ;-)

take care my friend,
Thilo

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Thilo Bayer Thilo Bayer   {K:50358} 10/31/2004
Hi Fadel,

I guess I have to make a different style then ;-)

Thilo

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Thilo Bayer Thilo Bayer   {K:50358} 10/31/2004
Dear MaLuisa,

your so right with that. I agree 100 % with you.

thx for sharing your thoughts.
take care,
thilo

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Thilo Bayer Thilo Bayer   {K:50358} 10/31/2004
Dear Arwa,

wow, a personal rework ;-) thanks a lot my dear friend.

Now that you mentioned it, I found the filter in PS. it was well hidden in that distorsion area. ;-)

I made a BW version as well with IR filtering but then rejected to use it as I like the colors in the sign so much. but your version shows the past very well. like it!

best wishes,
Thilo

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Thilo Bayer Thilo Bayer   {K:50358} 10/31/2004
Hi Hugo,

I know that situation quite good. ;-)

creativity is relying on physical freshness as well ;-)

Take care,
Thilo

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Thilo Bayer Thilo Bayer   {K:50358} 10/31/2004
Hi Ursula,

vielleicht mache ich irgendwann ein fotobuch mit solchen schrägen ansichten (wenn mir mein aktueller job keinen spaß mehr macht) ;-)

LG,
Thilo

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Thilo Bayer Thilo Bayer   {K:50358} 10/31/2004
Hi bro,

just stumbled over the sign when I was about to burn my pictures on dvd ;-)

take care,
t-bro

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Thilo Bayer Thilo Bayer   {K:50358} 10/31/2004
Hi Sergio,

thanks for the precious comments. to be honest, I made a bw/IR version as well but then rejected the idea because of the colors in the sign.

anyway, thanks again.
take care,
thilo

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Thilo Bayer Thilo Bayer   {K:50358} 10/31/2004
Hi Kev,

"...memories I never had". you're nailing it down, my friend. thanks for reminding me.

take care,
thilo

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Carlheinz Bayer   {K:14220} 10/31/2004
Remember that sign!!! I can imagine what you did with PS, here. Nice work, bro!
C.

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Ursula Luschnig Ursula Luschnig   {K:21723} 10/31/2004
Hi Thilo,da gibts bestimmt die frischen 'fortune cookies' ,ich liebe San Francisco und China Town.
Wie wärs mit einem SF Album...was sie schon immer wissen wollten,aber...:)
Deine Ansichten sind immer etwas anders...super
LG,Ursula

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Pedro Libório Pedro Libório   {K:53861} 10/31/2004
quite interesting composition here, and it is interesting because it says almost ...we are everywhere ... Coca-Cola ....and that is indeed true. I do like the presentation and I think you have quite a nice image here..
regards.

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NN  NN     {K:26787} 10/31/2004
Aged look ... well, you succeeded in doing that perfectly! Love your "street sign poem" :)

These signs make me think of capitalism. How corporations - or better, the employees, or even better, the managers - have to run just in order to stay still. Coca Cola has invaded even Russia. It?s a bloody, never-ending battle ... yet, the key to progress.

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Stephen  Bowden   {K:64141} 10/31/2004
I like the PS work Thilo, it may look a little stronger in B&W but in no way does this look bad :-)

With a sign this size I guess the bakery is pretty good too, I can almost smell the food - guess it must be lunch time here lol

Best wishes,
Steve

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Verena Rentrop Verena Rentrop   {K:15233} 10/31/2004
Hi Thilo,

ich mag den Effekt den Du damit erreicht hast...
Verfall in PS ;)

Liebe Grüße
Verena

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Jan Symank Jan Symank   {K:22030} 10/31/2004
Very nice " vintage " impression !
Very well seen, composed and finished in PS
Viele Gruesse
Jan

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Fadel J Fadel J   {K:13974} 10/31/2004
I knew that this is yours before reading the name under the thumbnail! I love the colors and composition a lot, great one dear Thilo!

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Kees and Carolyn    {K:15193} 10/31/2004
Great capture with excellent detail!
Carolyn

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Maria Luisa Vial   {K:36017} 10/31/2004
Excellent composition Thilo... The sign armonizes very well with the brick wall... Definetely if it could talk, it may tell us a lot of stories... It would have seen children grow up... Couples fight... Men grow old... and could teach us many things... as it is teaching now... Life goes on... a time will get to all of us...

Cheers,

MaLuisa

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Maria José Barres   {K:11276} 10/30/2004
I like the desatured colors and increase of texture.
Very nice subject.
Greetings dear Thilo.

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arwa abdullah   {K:34415} 10/30/2004
Ok its so simple, usually I like it with black and white, but can do it with any image go to filters then distort ? diffuse glow and just change the brightness grain and clearness to ur liking
Hope this helps
And hope u don?t mind my personal touch on your already good image ;)

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Patrick Jacobson   {K:29151} 10/30/2004
Funny title.. =) Great story and text also! I like this street image! Good work

Patrick J

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Hugo de Wolf Hugo de Wolf   {K:185110} 10/30/2004
Back to the Optio, Thilo? Nice atmosphere with the weatherbeaten sign and the high level of details. I guess I ran out of more constructive comments, so I'll leave it at this.... Not because in retaliation, of course.... Just tired;)

Cheers,

Hugo

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Sergio Sánchez   {K:2350} 10/30/2004
As usual, great story and explanation, but I agree with arwa, I believe in b&w would look better, and maybe older, so it would show better what you wanted.

Sergio

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Thilo Bayer Thilo Bayer   {K:50358} 10/30/2004
Dear Arwa,

thanks a lot for the constructive words.

how do you add the diffused glow in PS?

Take care,
Thilo

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arwa abdullah   {K:34415} 10/30/2004
Interesting about!! This image would look nice in black and white with diffused glow effect ;)
I never though about it that way when I saw a new sign!!!
I had a friend who got lights letters from an old sign fixed it and placed it in her hallway! It worked nicely with hip contemporary decorating, is that counted as recycling :P

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Kevin Collier   {K:19076} 10/30/2004
Good PS work here - you really did a fine job of bringing out the detail -- I love old signs -- brings back memories I never had...See ya .. K

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