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Andre Denis
{K:66407} 12/4/2005
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Thanks for the nice compliment on my railway lines image Mark!
Susie O'conner has a really nice one that she just posted as well. The mood of her's is similar to yours.
Andre
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Mark Longo
{K:12760} 12/4/2005
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Hi Andre. Yes, how many photos have been taken of train tracks? Millions surely. Yet they are SO different. The difference in mood between this one and your excellent "Railway Lines" shot is astonishing. This is one of my favorite shots in my portfolio, but I very much admire and enjoy yours every bit as much or more!
Best regards,
Mark
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Andre Denis
{K:66407} 12/3/2005
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A beautiful Trackside image Mark! Mine is a stark, industrial looking contrast to this one. It's amazing how we are in control of our moods when producing these images.
Great job!
Andre
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Francesco Francesco
{K:8101} 11/10/2005
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Thank you dear Mark to share your vision of world with us......Bravo! Ciao
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Erik Neldner
{K:10846} 11/6/2005
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nice. i like the "roundness" and sense of warmth to this autumnal sketch. interesting old subject too. cool stuff man.
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Linda Imagefree
{K:72276} 11/6/2005
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Love the widescreen effect here Mark! This has a very nostalgic feeling for me. I agree with Ina it looks like you shot this from a very low perspective, and it really gives it a nice feel with wonderful depth. Kind of makes me think of the song "Ode to Billy Joe" don't ask me why...sitting on the Tallahatchie (sp) bridge...I can just see myself sitting there passing the hours. Lovely Fall colors, and rich beautiful colors, I think we'll being seeing this on the front page maybe!
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Mohamed Banna
{K:34237} 11/6/2005
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very nice perspective
amazing angle and compsoition
perfect colors
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Yahya El Hosafy
{K:8369} 11/5/2005
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wonderfull photo Mark
amazing day light.
u did well with the contrast, but the composition and the many elements are all in place.
wonderfull photo my friend.
cheers.
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patrizio napolitano
{K:13119} 11/5/2005
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bellissima
patrizio
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Ina Nicolae
{K:44481} 11/5/2005
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Indeed, it does look as if you have a lower angle of view in this one. I think I had a similar observation to one of your other images, the one with the building (In the Old Style #2) and maybe in the one of the tennis court (more of a cinematic view). So it became apparent to me that there is a pattern, not just a frame style - but a way of seeing. It's really good to be able to go beyond the established way of seeing. This is probably the hardest thing to do. I did mention the colors in this one, but they were beside the point. I think you're on to something!
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Mark Longo
{K:12760} 11/5/2005
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Thanks for your kind words Kathy. You said that there is a lot for the eye to wander over in this shot. Funny but I was thinking that exact thing as I was working on the cropping. Maybe it would make a fun jigsaw puzzle!
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Mark Longo
{K:12760} 11/5/2005
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Thank you so much Ina for your well thought out comments. While I clearly don't deserve such a huge compliment, and especially from someone as gifted as yourself, I'm very much pleased that you like what you see here. And the points you make in your comment are very interesting.
I have been experimenting a lot with the "letter box" cropping geometry where the crop makes the image short and wide. Placing the black bars above and below it seems to help isolate the image from the surrounding space and also gives it a cinematic quality that I very much like. With this particular image I was trying different crops with it I was amazed at how the perspective "appeared" to change with the different crops. For example, after doing the crop you see above, I tried making it narrower by removing about 20% of the image from the left side. Suddenly the angle and pespective of the tracks appeared to change, as though now I was shooting from a higher perspective down on them. It was a VERY powerful illusion. Though it WAS an illusion of course because the actual perspective of the photographed tracks remains constant. I noticed a similar effect when cropping from the right side. By leaving the image wide and cropping from the top and a little from the bottom, the tracks looked flatter, as though the shooting angle was lower than it actually was, another illusion. So I just played with the cropping, comparing different versions and working toward something I liked.
One other comment, the lighting of the day seemed to give the colors a bit more saturatation, helped further by the image being a bit underexposed to begin with. When I added contrast to the image to bring up the lighter aspects and also to make the rails stand out a bit more, the colors really started to pop, but also to exagerate the brooding light as well. I was surprised at that effect but also delighted. I guess you can't experiment too much with the post processing. I think the result I have here is true to the mood of the scene as shot, but the post brings it home to the viewer a bit more clearly.
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Ina Nicolae
{K:44481} 11/5/2005
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There is something magical in your pictures Mark, I think it's the mood and the angle. The way you look at things. It's interesting how you frame these images, they are not panoramic, but rather give me the impression of looking through a window, or a camera's viewfinder. I get the impression of being there, taking the picture myself, as opposed to looking "AT" a picture. Very nice perspective of the tracks, I like the reflections, the colors, but most of all the way you composed it. It is amazing how you can come up with a new way of looking at things, since your frame does not act as a frame, instead of limiting the view, it rather seems to focus it. Regards, Ina
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Kathy Hillard
{K:25721} 11/5/2005
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Lots of places for the eye to wander in this shot, Mark! Great colors and textures! I like it a lot!
Kathy
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Rashed Abdulla
{K:163889} 11/5/2005
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wonderful details and composition into this capture,very best regards
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