my friend put up her window display at the store... 35 years that poor fucker has been tied to that chair.
took this on the way in today at Spadina and Front. The 60-80 tents against the background of luxury condos seemed poignant...
Cooked again. I used to do this just about every weekend but this is the first time since September. It was perfect, with skin so crispy it was like it was fried.
Posted this in my Blue Room thread a couple of weeks ago. I've been trying to photograph that place for a couple of years now but either I didn't have time, the lighting wasn't right, or on at least one occasion someone mowed the weeds, which lessened the abandoned look.
Made another couple of photographs over the weekend. I like the black and white versions a lot but I think I like color better because due to the red bricks and the colorful leaves. I wasn't able to get the 6x17 crop on the brick building because I couldn't back up any farther due to cars parked on one side of the street. For the smaller building I was standing in the middle of a highway. Back in the 80s I played pool in the white building a few times because a gal I was dating was something of a hustler and I'd watch her win cash. My very meager skills at the game are courtesy of her teaching me.
Abandoned house not far from where I grew up. Another one where I'm not sure if I like it better in color or monochrome.
I think you could probably submit both into whatever with the category of “is this picture colorized? Or has the color been removed from a recent photo?”
Thanks, but I just take these for my own amusement. Back when that house was new, 40+ years ago, a girl I went to junior high with lived there. I had a huge crush on her, but her family moved away before we were even in high school. I ran into her one time after that, when I was in college and she was a senior(?) in high school but it was a very fleeting encounter. I really regret losing contact with her.
the mono is more stark and striking, but the greyish sky behind the colour has a greater pathos. have you fiddled with intensities at all? a little less vibrancy sort of thing to give it more of a "the light has left" feeling.
The photojournalist in me is reluctant to monkey with color too much other than to make any adjustments necessary so that the captured image appears as it did to my eye. If an image is captured looking too cool or warm due to a white balance error, I'll make those adjustments and maybe tweak the saturation a bit, but that's the extent of it. I tend to screw around with contrast/structure/detail a lot more with grayscale images because they're more artsy to me than color photos. That one has the structure dialed up quite a bit so that the clouds pop more and the sharpness and structure are pushed a lot farther than on the color photo.
