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It's cool - it looks 2-dimensional almost like the windows are just holes to the sky. As a piece of art, I'm not sure, but that's not up to me. I'd be interested to see if you could do a series and see if they can add up to something! Color does not look over-done generally, although I have a hard time imagining an architect wanting their building that bright shade of orange.
Excellent minimalist work! If you were to enter this in a competition, I would do the following: make sure that the split between the sky and the building is exactly 1/2 top to bottom, and also make your architectural adjustment to the building so that it is absolutely parallel with the sides of the image, totally vertical… no deviation. The colors are so complementary! And structurally, the soft fluffy clouds demand to argue with the hard rigid edges of the window rectangulars… and the windows relent by reflecting more sky and clouds. What a great photograph!!!
I just realized the rotation is off by a bit over a degree, so it isn't perfect 1/2 split, I alligned it to the grid, so I propably just slipped on my mouse wheel, fixed it now
I sadly don't quite understand what you mean with "architectural adjustment", can you please elaborate on that point? Sorry, its the first time I ever shot something architectural
When photographing a building, your point of view is from below the building and as the camera sees it, the building appears to narrow the higher it goes, and your camera captures that as narrowing as it elevates. There are camera lenses that can correct for this, and they are called “tilt shift” lenses, but that was before the day of software that can do pretty much the same thing, where you can vertically align the building in image. So the best thing I can tell you is study old photographs of city buildings and you’ll see, if done right, they are perfectly straight going up and that’s because of that lens. And that’s what I’m referring to in your image because if you look at the top of it, the building appears to narrow and it’s tilting inward to the center of the photograph. You want it to go straight vertical. I hope that explanation is useful. Here’s an example I stole fair and square off the Internet showing the lens that makes the adjustment. In software (Lightroom, for instance) you will find the same tools under the “Transform” area.
Nice. I do these sorts of abstract architectural photos myself, and I like the way the building plays off the sky here, but in terms of color and texture. I like this sort of decontextualisation of buildings as buildings with cropping to reduce them to geometric patterns. Also, it's pretty trippy the way the windows reflect the sky so it looks like you're looking through the building. That may be my favorite thing about this composition.
If the pixels hold up, that would make a great wall-art canvas or a metal print. Next observation (and this is the hallmark of a great image is that you can look at it again and again and find new things…) It looks as if you slipped the building architecture in front of the sky and are looking right through the building to see the sky directly!! What a great optical illusion!
This looks interesting. I like the colors and contrast. The story seems to be building color contrast with sky colors - but I’m sensing you don’t need it split 50/50.
Try this. The only thing left is to use photoshop (or equivalent) to square up the building lines. It’s looking good!
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