Brushes

[Stephen]

I don't feel as though I've taken many memorable shots this year, the conditions and other conflicting things have meant my library has stayed pretty static. I've taken to looking at stuff taken last year, almost scraping the barrel so to speak.

This was a shot I came across this afternoon whilst looking through some folders in LR2, and I decided it had some potential. So, apart from the frame everything else was done in LR2. It was taken during a brief walk round Slaithwaite nr Huddersfield (pronounced slouwit) and somehow the old hardware store took my attention, its not something you often see in the city.

Anyway I'd welcome any comments on the composition or processing, is it too predictable, or would it have been better left in full colour, what do you think?

[devilgas]

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3rd time of typing this in.....

the main thing that troubles me is the mismatch of time frames. there's olde worlde buildings and brushes mixed in with modern cars, plastics, packaging & street furniture, which kinda leaves it in no-mans land.
full colour would only exacerbate this mismatch, especially with the double yellow lines on't road, and going full sepia would get ruined with all the modern stuff in the image. so, not an image i could even begin to suggest how to process to get the best from it.

as can probably be guessed , it doesn't exactly float my boat, and one that i'd think would've seemed a good idea at the time but just didn't quite work.

[Stephen]

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3rd time of typing this in.....

the main thing that troubles me is the mismatch of time frames. there's olde worlde buildings and brushes mixed in with modern cars, plastics, packaging & street furniture, which kinda leaves it in no-mans land.
full colour would only exacerbate this mismatch, especially with the double yellow lines on't road, and going full sepia would get ruined with all the modern stuff in the image. so, not an image i could even begin to suggest how to process to get the best from it.

as can probably be guessed , it doesn't exactly float my boat, and one that i'd think would've seemed a good idea at the time but just didn't quite work.

Many thanks for persevereing Dave, its much appreciated. Also thanks for your comments, I understand where you are coming from. When I took the photo I never really was thinking about making it look as though it was from a specific era. I suppose it gaving me a sort of Arkwright (Open All Hours) kinda feeling. However it was just a hardware store in a West Yorkshire town and I wasn't trying to isolate it from the modern world.

What has happened since of course is the processing I have applied, and this kind of does try to put it into an era, perhaps of the mid 20th Century. Now you mention it, I'm not so sure it works, or even should be done in that way. Maybe I'd have been better just leaving the image in full colour, and then there would have been less mixed messages.

[ash]

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Slawit certainly is not a city More of a place you come across to get somewhere else
Im more interested in the brush that say's 'free' on it, I need one to sweep my yard!

[Mowgli]

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Looks like the kind of place Barr1e`s wife and Petes mother in law could go to upgrade their latest mode of travel

[Stephen]

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Looks like the kind of place Barr1e`s wife and Petes mother in law could go to upgrade their latest mode of travel

Haha, indeed, and I didn't see any old style models either