For some reason this title would not go out of my head when I was thinking about this challenge: so what the hell, I thought, go with the flow. It's the first 'dirty' photo I've submitted since my bridge shot, so I'll be intrigued to compare their scores: though I'll actually be surprised if it does as well as the bridge.
It's quite interesting now having had to go back to the 2800Z after the 602Z. Not sure I'd have taken this with a wildly differnet aperture given the choice, though I'd probably have gone for something a little wider.
The saturation is upped by 100%, and it's very fractionally lightened, and cropped to get rid of some ground level distractions and a bit too much sky.
I'll also be intrigued to see if anyone notices a general bottom left to top right composition in this image: I can see it, but I don't know if that's just me.
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Very interesting photo. Has a gloomy feeling to it. I would have liked to see a little more light hitting the apartment building to show more detail in it.
As I look at it I would really like to see it without the lamp post.
It was a good concept on the challenge and a refreshing look at the subject of trends. Nicely done.
Has the right sombre feel. The perspective (and wide angle lens, I guess) makes it look like the building's toppling (and a good thing that would be, too :-)
The foreground choice of the lamp is an excellent with the building in the background. The clouds add drama to tehe picture. The little building in front of the larger one detracts from the shot however. Interesting concept.
Questions I'm asking about this photograph: What does the lightpost add to the shot? Would there be a better way to portray urban housing other than with a photograph of a bland building? Maybe showing some scenes inside the building and the people who live there - so we could really see what the urban housing situation was like.
Lighting isn't that exciting and the building is underexposed because of the bright sky.
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