Bill Carson

Stan Ashbrook
Allen Gannaway
Joseph Coplen
John Larson
Lynne Royce
Don von Wolffradt
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Title - Southampton Chimney Pots

May 2008 Image

How I did it - Captured with my Nikon D-1 set on "Auto" with 60mm f/2.8 Micro Nikkor lens. Chimneys are on an adjacent building. This is a straight image, cropped a small amount using Photoshop CS.

COMMENTS
Stan Ashbrook

This is an interesting shot of these chimneys. It is well exposed and sharp. Maybe one of the artistic filters in Photoshop would make the shot more interesting.

Allen Gannaway

Beautiful texture! The light bottom is distracting, however. I’d crop up into the last row of bricks. I’d also suggest intensifying the colors with Hue/Saturation even if the results were not as realistic. We don’t see structures like this every day.

Joseph Coplen

John Larson

A nice record shot, but it does not have much impact or a center of interest. Maybe you could try replacing the sky with one that had a few clouds.

Lynne Royce Textures in pots and brick are warm and interesting. Like the touch that the grass and moss add to the chimney. It would be fun to shoot this from many different angles, cropping the chimney and bricks with the camera lens for different perspectives.

Don von Wolffradt Good eye for composition, five chimneys with one slightly separated from the other four. Suggest cropping off the bottom of the image where the bricks joint the roof. The bricks should be darkened slightly.
Member Bio
Bill Carson - Biography

Born in Omaha, Nebraska in 1920 and spent my business career here and there in locations from New York City to the West Coast. Spent three years in WWII with the US Army in the ETO.

Photographically, I have been taking and processing photographs since the middle 1930s and with the introduction to 35mm in 1937, I became quite serious about photography as a hobby. I bought, what was then called a "refugee:" Leica in '38 and have owned and used Leica equipment since then. I have also owned and seriously used Nikon, Zeiss Contax, Speed Graphics, Graflex, Rolleiflex, 2¼X3¼, 4X5 and up to 5X7 sheet film cameras and have had darkroom facilities to process these films. I have been a member of PSA since 1961.I have not been particularly interested in color photography because I am color blind.

I have very recently disposed of my chemically oriented darkroom and concentrated on scanning,

I have very recently [2000] disposed of my basic chemical-based equipment and become a “digital photographer.” As of 2008, I have a Nikon D-1 camera which uses my inventory of Nikkor lenses from 20mm to 500mm, an Epson Perfection Photo 3200 Flat-bed scanner, an Epson Stylus Photo 2200 Printer for photo printing, and an HP LaserJet 1022 printer for routine printing. I am very happy with this basic change in my photographic interests.