Dublin Architecture shots for c & c

Morlar

Here are some architecture shots taken in dublin yesterday for c & c. There are larger sized copies and other buildings etc in flickr.
(http://www.flickr.com/photos/gerardkenny/) Thanks for checking.

The 4 courts



The Customs House



The Customs House II




Ulster Bank Dublin



The Famine Memorial




The Customs House and Liberty Hall

440Hz

Wonderful work!! The second one is absolutely stunning. I really love these. Excellent composition, lovely processing and conversion. Really lovely work, well done.

mishima

Beautiful stuff! Very nicely done indeed!

Eirebear

really like the bottom one morlar...great shots all round though

robbie1876

I love architecture shots, and these are superb! Fantastic clarity and texture.

To my eye the perspective on Custom House II is a bit weird, but I appreciate you may have been going for that look. It's just that the building looks flat, there is no depth to it. Still a great shot though!

My fave is the last one, it's just a shame about that light blue pontoon or whatever it is in the river. The sky is amazing though. Very well composed

PaulieC

like 4 of them. The processing on the famine statues is a bit over done, needlessly grainy IMO and the Ulster Bank is a bit snapshotty compared to the other 4, which are excellent.

magicbastarder

to be honest, these buildings are so easily photographed, and from the angles you chose, that the only thing which makes these different is the processing.

Morlar

Thanks for checking - that blue thing in the water was annoying and that was the reason I did a b & w version - I might go back and change it to a different colour later. The customs house II one is a bit of a wierd angle - there were people who wouldn't move and so to balance it out I had to cut into the frame by an equal amount at the other end which squished things a bit.

Magic - I think you could say the same about most genres of photography. I am not sure which area or areas you work in but say flowers or landscapes - they often involve standard angles or standard lighting or other elements. Of all the categories I have worked in you could probably argue on one level that all are 'easily taken' - however the results will vary going from one photographer to the next.

I think the reason results vary are down to choices the photographer makes mainly before hitting the button (not all photographers bother to consider the following but most do)

which lens to use,
which angle,
how to compose it,
aperture,
shutterspeed,
which filter to use if any (or which combination of filters),
whether to wait and time the shot to miss traffic
or time it to nail one person mid frame or whatever.

its those choices made before pressing the button that amount to why results will vary from one photographer to the next in my view (in this context). You could disregard those choices (and the photographer completely for that matter) and put differences between picture A and picture B down to photoshop alone but I dont think that would be accurate.

Having said that some of the above shots were very limited in terms of the angles available (in some of them) - this is dictated by the reality of the location - things like having a big river in the way, traffic, parked cars and so on.

solus

I like the 1st and last image
The third image.. the litter bin stands out.. takes away from the pic, maybe a different angle

magicbastarder

Morlar wrote:

Having said that some of the above shots were very limited in terms of the angles available (in some of them) - this is dictated by the reality of the location - things like having a big river in the way, traffic, parked cars and so on.

exactly; they're the shots everyone else is forced to take, so they look hackneyed.

Morlar

magicbastarder wrote:

exactly; they're the shots everyone else is forced to take, so they look hackneyed.

Damn you laws of physics !

Seán_B

Really nice Morlar, I really like the second one, processing is spot on imo.:) What lens where you using?

Dr.Louis

Not usually a fan of architectural shots, but I really like these! Well done!

As for the processing on the last shot, I think it would work better if the statues were the main focus... I just think they suit that look a bit better...

The second one is my favourite though!!

prox

What's with the crazy vignetting in #1?

The Customs House looks a little muddy in the B&W - to my eye a Portland stone approaches bone white.