Photographer’s Notes My highest scoring photo to date was a ribbon winner taken at the Suzzallo Library at the University of Washington. The building is straight out of Hogwarts which is to say it is a fairy tale structure – grand and imposing inside and delicately spired on the outside. At the suggestion of my WPL teammates and Brent_S, I shot it again for this challenge. Maybe it will escape voter fatigue if no other Seattle-ites shoot it. I hope so.
I have enjoying a couple of days off work. Some places they call this a weekend. I drove around Seattle looking for unusual buildings and shot a few. I googled ‘interesting buildings Seattle’ and found a few I tried to shoot. Damn, they don’t exist yet – still under construction. There’s a wonderful, whimsical, apartment building in Fremont called the Epi which I like tremendously and would have entered except for: 1) The day I shot it the weather was crappy; and 2) I am actually with the library shot.
I arrived on campus at noon, sat outside in the freezing cold an hour waiting for the damn library to open. My original concept was to shoot it full of students, with a very very slow shutter, so I would see shadows of the students milling around. This is a slack time on campus apparently as there were possibly 6 students in the library, four singles with their heads down, and a couple deeply (deeply) engaged with each other. So I had to be content with the hand I was dealt.
Anyway, it’s been awhile since I shot this. Possibly folks won’t remember my prior entry. And maybe it will resonate on an emotional level with voters!
Enjoy!!!
Post Processing • Tone Map Single Original (Photomatix)
• Warm (PSCS5 Warming Photo Filter)
• Brighten (PSCS5 Curves Layer)
• Contrast (PSCS5 Curves Layer)
• Color (PSCS5 Hue/Sat Layer)
• Crop (PSCS5)
• Resize (Perfect Resize)
• Sharpen (PSCS5 USM)
• Save for Web (PSCS5)
Camera Data Date: 2012.01.08
Camera: Nikon D3
Lens: Nikon AF-S Zoom-Nikkor 14-24 mm f/2.8D IF-ED
ISO: 1000
Aperture: f/5
Shutter: 1/40
Statistics
Place: 1 out of 86 Avg (all users): 7.0960 Avg (commenters): 8.1250 Avg (participants): 6.6087 Avg (non-participants): 7.3797 Views since voting: 4740 Views during voting: 295 Votes: 125 Comments: 38 Favorites: 4 (view)
Doc...this is great!! Congrats on the blue and I'm so happy to see this along with the original on your profile....and with two other shots from the WPL. GOOOOOOOOOOOO LONG SHOTS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1
Very cool... love the silvery tones as it makes me hear the organ better ... BIG music, in contrast to the little guy, like maybe Bach Prelude and Fugue in C. Congrats on the ribbon!
Congrats Doc! I really thought you were going to use this location against my team during our first match. It's a grand location and you made it shine.
Good use of symmetry and the human figure to illustrate the scale. If I think to the concept described by the title, I feel that a much closer view of the person, perhaps while gazing around at the imposing ceiling, could have conveyed the concept better. Good image.
Stunning. I believe I've seen this before, and I had the same comment then as I have now - the tones are too even and too similar, without leading the eye in any particular direction. The chandeliers and the aisle help in that regard, but tonally, this could be far more interesting. I imagine that despite my protestations, this will finish near or at the top.
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