Luminous Landscape Forum
Equipment & Techniques => Cameras, Lenses and Shooting gear => Topic started by: haefnerphoto on December 26, 2009, 04:58:51 pm
-
Attached are a couple of shots taken recently utilizing my 17mm T/S. Thought they might be of interest to anyone considering the lens which I highly recommend! The location is the new LA High School #9, a stunning design just north of the MOCA on Grand Avenue in downtown LA. It's the school district's performing arts school designed by the Austrian firm, Coop Himmelb(l)au. By the way, the vignette was applied in post. Jim
[attachment=18903:_9_schoo..._cr1_dc4.jpg]
[attachment=18904:_9_Schoo..._083_dc8.jpg]
-
Attached are a couple of shots taken recently utilizing my 17mm T/S. Thought they might be of interest to anyone considering the lens which I highly recommend! The location is the new LA High School #9, a stunning design just north of the MOCA on Grand Avenue in downtown LA. It's the school district's performing arts school designed by the Austrian firm, Coop Himmelb(l)au. By the way, the vignette was applied in post. Jim
wow very nice...I love mod/min industrial architecture. Just a bit cold for a high school in my view....looks a bit more like a car manufac plant or a prison. Maybe it needs a little color...thats all.
And that image looks very nice in the res you posted online. Beuatiful!
-
Gee... it looks more like a high-tech, high-security designer prison I guess the first order of business for the school should be to let LA graffiti artists run wild on its outside walls.
-
Nothing to do with the photography, but everything to do with the architecture: grim.
Trouble is, these towers come with a negative history which doesn't always have much to do with the purpose of the building. There's an abandoned factory up here in the north of the island which has been abandoned for as long as anyone here seems to know; in fact, it has been reported as having been a textile factory, a shoe factory. The truth? No idea.
Anyway, the reason I shot it was because of the sense of evil that it gives off, even on a sunny day. Some buildings are benevolent whilst others are not. This one, I would never enter. From a hill high above it, you can see that the interior takes what seems to be a sort of quadrangular shape surrounding an overgrown yard. What lies within is anyone's guess, and the thought of stumbling into it, perhaps falling into a disused water tank and rotting away there with nothing but the scorpions, spiders and ants for company is a bit too much.
But apart from that, which line of thought came much later, its original spur to photographic intererst was the idea of Nazi concentration camps with machine gun towers.
Whether concentration camp or factory, both dedicated to keeping the toilers within, does a school require the same symbolism? Is LA as the movies tell it?
I enclose the Mallorcan version just to illustrate the sense of oppression that towers might give.
Rob C
-
You're kidding I hope, this is a gorgeous building and I wish that I was young enough to go there;or maybe I just wish that I was still young...
-
You're kidding I hope, this is a gorgeous building and I wish that I was young enough to go there;or maybe I just wish that I was still young...
If I were you, I'd settle for the wish to be young again and leave the building to rot, as whoever may own it certainly seems happy to do.
As for its beauty: even the house in Psycho has its fans...
;-)
Rob C
-
If I were you, I'd settle for the wish to be young again and leave the building to rot, as whoever may own it certainly seems happy to do.
As for its beauty: even the house in Psycho has its fans...
;-)
Rob C
I think ddk was referring to the first photo...the school. As I said I wish it gets some sort of "new approach" color scheme to give it youth (maybe a translucent color to keep the concrete texture, etc). It is beautiful.
-
..
-
I think ddk was referring to the first photo...the school. As I said I wish it gets some sort of "new approach" color scheme to give it youth (maybe a translucent color to keep the concrete texture, etc). It is beautiful.
I was, thanks for clarifying.
-
I agree stunning architecture.
BTW there is some fall off on those images. On the first I would expect this as it looks like it was fully shifted, but on the bottom one, given how much foreground there is, it doesn't look shifted much at all. Why the falloff in the second one?
-
While I agree the architecture is stark, I'm surprised at the negative connotations it's evoked. I do know that the students, their parents and staff are thrilled with the facility. Kirk, the vignetting was applied in post, there was none to begin with. It's something I do to many of my images. Jim
-
While I agree the architecture is stark, I'm surprised at the negative connotations it's evoked. I do know that the students, their parents and staff are thrilled with the facility. Jim
Ins't it interesting the response?
When we think of kids(or my kids at least) attending an "institution" and seeing it in almost b/w, it is something I think of wanting warmth. Perhaps being a father of youngsters yet to go to school hope to see more enviting atmospheres to surround them with. I can see it being an influence to there creative process. I am sure the intereior and curriculmn is entirely flip...but then again, it is a High school, in Los Angeles...downtown for that matter. jk...sort of :-)
-
don't forget that we get 350 days of blue skies and sunshine in LA:) in a different climate this might look different....or imagine the same photos in b&w with a dramatic sky....
either way, i just don't see how those towers evoke concentration camps....
coop himmelblau is a very interesting firm, this might actually be one of their more conservative designs....
i think it looks great....i believe a clean and simple environment breeds creativity....
-
Beautiful buildings: happy to see we were speaking about different buildings - reconfirms my shaky grasp on human emotions.
As for towers and concentration camps - you see these connections or you don't: a cultural thing.
But what's a tower for, exactly, if not for observation and/or superiority of position/situation/status within hierarchy/power? Given the time, the need and the courage, one could build a terrifying structure around the rôle of the tower in human relationships; Babel comes to mind, amongst other things... but this is a far cry from shift lenses which are much safer avenues for thought.
Rob C
-
don't forget that we get 350 days of blue skies and sunshine in LA:) in a different climate this might look different....or imagine the same photos in b&w with a dramatic sky....
either way, i just don't see how those towers evoke concentration camps....
coop himmelblau is a very interesting firm, this might actually be one of their more conservative designs....
i think it looks great....i believe a clean and simple environment breeds creativity....
RobC was making that comparison. I don't see how that came about. These are stunning examples of architecture. Just not so kid warm. The weather might make up for it. :-)
did I mention...Very nice angles and photos Jim