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A couple of months ago, I posted something from the car park at Sutro Baths, the now-derelict swimming pool complex on the Pacific coast in San Francisco. I think these are the stumps of the wall that faced the ocean, slowly rusting away. Taking these shots rather bemused a passer-by who thought I must have been photographing some small animal or something.
There are two versions: different sections of the same wall. Now that I come to post them, I see that #1 is a little over-sharpened, which I'll fix when I get the chance.
All comments and criticism welcome.
Dave.
Sunday, 29th November, 2009.
183mm, f/5.6, 1/500s, ISO-100.
| Camera: | Canon EOS 400D |
| Lens: | Canon 70-200mm f/4 L IS |
| Recording media: | RAW (digital) |
| Title: | Mini Mountains |
| Username: | 
DRicherby |
| Uploaded: | 24 Feb 2010 - 12:21 PM |
| Tags: | Black & white, Close-up / macro, Landscape / travel |
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V1 is the best I really really love this very well thought out and i hope it gets loads and loads of vote come on guys!!!
Like v1. Make me look twice as at first glance it looks like a rock formation in the desert.
Love this idea David, with creative use of the spikes on the wall.
#2 not quite working for me with that light rectangle in the background stealing the illusion.
But I really like #1 with the background working well with great DOF. Over-sharpened as you say with the white halo and I think it would help with a touch more space at the top and maybe a little less at the bottom to remove some of the solid black and the 'wall feel'; but minor factors for me
Tim
Fascinating write-up Dave and very well spotted. You seem always to have a knack of seeing and capturing unusual and original subjects, which would just not register with the majority of people.
Great textures and detail and working so well in mono.
I see that this is macro work, but what sort of scale roughly would these "stumps" be? Could they be remnants of the wall's reinforcement rods?
Sylvia
Quote: doesnt look over sharp to my inexperienced eye at least
Hope Dave doesn't mind as he was the first to point out the over-sharpening, but If you are interested, look down the right hand edge of the highest peak. You'll see a thin white line which the sharpening has added, which are often referred to as halos. Can be caused by either over-sharpening, or by an over aggresive resizing method - i.e. photoshop has a bicubic-sharper and a bicubic-smoother etc and PSPX2 has a percentage sharpening to apply when doing its bicubic scaling. Keep a particular eye out for high contrast edges and adjust the method used if you spot these extra white or black lines occuring.
Tim
Thanks, Tim you saved me a bit of typing, there. 
Thanks also for mentioning the square thing in #2. I'll have a go at making that less prominent.
I think that saving as a JPEG can also introduce haloes like that. I've not investigated it but, from knowledge of how both JPEG compression and sharpening works, both should be able to produce that sort of artifact. I processed the image a little while ago so I don't remember exactly, but I'm sure I'd have noticed those haloes if I'd produced them in editing. After all, I spend enough time pointing out other people's sharpening haloes!
Do you know, I wouldn't have noticed that if Tim hadn't pointed it out. Maybe it's more noticable on the full size image.
Looks great to me. Another of your unusual & thought provoking abstracts.
Sharp with fine detail where it needs to be David, re the 'halos', I also find that using shadows and highlights has a similar effect too 
Geoff.
Like an alien world, like V2 for the composition and tone
Mark
Very interesting shot, when i first looked at this i thought it was real mountains!
Well taken shot.
Ricky.
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