2 Wierd buildings for (C&C)

Morlar

Here are 2 more for C & C taken yesterday -

This is suposed to be the daytime version :

http://www.deviantart.com/view/35336431/

& This is the night time one :

http://www.deviantart.com/view/35336236/

I was trying to make them look a bit like iain m banks book covers - and make them a bit more sciencey fiction like. Comments suggestions etc appreciated. PS There is some diffuse filter effect used in the final stages of photoshopping (along with rakes of other stuff).

Ruu_Old

Brilliant, I dont know which one I like the most, probably the night one. You certainly made them look like science fiction, some kind of rockets or some such technology. Well done!

jimi_t

Woah, I thought they were renders... Very cool

AlisonB

These are excellent shots. Almost fantasy (which i love)!
Very Very nice morlar.. not unlike something Mark Russell Hill would create.
Love them!!

311

love the first one ,the yellow one ,reminds me of the david bowie space man film.

Cool stuff.

Brian.

CONMIKE12

Really great shots both of them.Well done.

dazftw

I like the second one a tad more.. The first one is great though !

Some very nice shots !

elven

I love them. The processing just pushes them beyond architecture photography and into the realm of being art in their own right (my god that sounds pretentious, but I don't know any other way to put it), I like them both equally well, two slightly different moods because of the tone. Just fab.

Morlar

Cheers all for the comments -
Brian its wierd that you mentioned david bowie - the title for those comes from one of his songs ! (written while crossing america and looking at all the odd looking grain silos ).
Alison - I checked out that guy Mark Russell Hill and I can see what you mean - there are similair type of effects to one or two of his fine art pieces too. Also wierdly enough one of his portraits has a similair look to one of mine (though his is much darker).

If anyone is interested - the bit that changed them from this :

http://www.deviantart.com/deviation/35332909/

to this:

http://www.deviantart.com/deviation/35336431/

is a PS Action called 'spicy contrasts' (very J-lo kind of name ) and thats available here :

http://www.deviantart.com/deviation/27624681/

Thanks again for checking them.

Shrimp

Just a little tip, when you upload photos to DA, try and have the longest size no longer than 800PX..

ender ender

Cool shots, the first one is more to my liking. Where is the building? It looks like a giant zinc-clad bra

Morlar

Shrimp - thanks for the tip but not really needed - I submit them in the size I prefer, some small some not so small. ;o)

The building is out in city west - do you know the area ? its kind of around a bend in the road so if you drive straight through from the blessington rd across the citywest bridge in the direction of baldonel you would miss it - I think its left at the 2nd roundabout (the one past citywest avenue).

PS Somone else had mentioned the bra thing on dev art too - and I had thought of it as well and nearly called the pictures the D and D for double d's.

eas

very nice Morlar - I'm definately into the look of the second one more, no to take anything away from the first one, both excellent

I'm interested in you PP techique - could you step it out for us?

Morlar

To be honest no - it was lots of trial and error - but I could re-produce it at a machine with CS2 though. I dont have the menus in front of me at the mo - lots of saturation levels (not on the master setting but going through colour by colour, colour levels (the dialog with the slide bars and highlights/shadows etc options) - also a touch of diffuse at the end and the contrast action earlier posted in a link.


Also exposure, ,from the images menu, and 'photo filter', and one one other that I cant remember right now.

I cant remember but they may have had a velvia action applied and then 'edit-step backward' half way unapplied at one point as well.

Valentia

Great job Morlar. I like them both. They have a depth and feel to them and the PP is really good and tasty.

Roen

Congrats great originals and great PP too.

eas

cool - no worries. whatever you do the results are striking. I looked at your street performers and thought the same thing. (think they where yours?)

ender ender

Morlar, I don't know the area at all, it's not your typical Irish building though! Looks more like something from Holland or Germany, you don't see much architecture that stands out like that in Dublin very often

Morlar

Thanks eas - (I had some street performers on the gallery too). I think its a shame there isnt more architecture like that about the place too - so long as its functional as well as interesting looking. It can really liven up a boring area. Reminded me of the gerkin in london or of that tilted building in prague.

Ps if your interested theres a guy on dev art who does some great architecture photography (mostly of bahrain) and some near-real 3d models too :

http://sampdoria.deviantart.com/gallery/

heres a sample
http://www.deviantart.com/view/31560446/