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The Art of Photography => User Critiques => Topic started by: MattBurt on September 21, 2015, 04:38:36 pm

Title: The city and the sub
Post by: MattBurt on September 21, 2015, 04:38:36 pm

I had a business trip to Portland last week and got out for a couple of walks at night. There's a new bridge there which was fun to shoot and very popular and on the way back I came across this sub by the OMSI Science Museum, looking away from the new bridge everyone was taking photos of (including me).

I liked how this old steel bridge provided the frame and the juxtaposition of the skyline and this old sub (USS Blueback).
Pentax K-S2 & DA 40mm Limited
(https://farm1.staticflickr.com/659/21269104960_832808ff98_c.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/yptHUd)IMGP0758-Edit.jpg (https://flic.kr/p/yptHUd) by Matt Burt (https://www.flickr.com/photos/mattbnet/), on Flickr

Title: Re: The city and the sub
Post by: Tony Jay on September 21, 2015, 05:02:48 pm

Congratulations Matt.
Spectacular image!

Tony Jay

Title: Re: The city and the sub
Post by: RSL on September 21, 2015, 05:03:15 pm

+1

Title: Re: The city and the sub
Post by: Eric Myrvaagnes on September 21, 2015, 07:38:18 pm

Quote from: RSL on September 21, 2015, 05:03:15 pm

+1

+2.

Title: Re: The city and the sub
Post by: MattBurt on September 21, 2015, 11:35:57 pm

Thanks! I appreciate the kind words and elementary math.

Title: Re: The city and the sub
Post by: stamper on September 22, 2015, 03:34:39 am

An unusual subject that is rather well done!

Title: Re: The city and the sub
Post by: Bob_B on September 22, 2015, 08:18:25 am

Very nice. For me, the ambient light shining off of the sub's hull is wonderful and fits the scene perfectly.

Title: Re: The city and the sub
Post by: MattBurt on September 22, 2015, 11:31:38 am

Thanks! I was pleased with that light too. There was a very bright bare bulb just behind the protruding top of the sub (surely there is a better name for that) and I had to position myself to block it. The reflected light from that ended up being just enough. I tried a couple of compositions but none worked as well as this one.

Title: Re: The city and the sub
Post by: Bob_B on September 23, 2015, 09:06:49 am

Quote from: MattBurt on September 22, 2015, 11:31:38 am

...the protruding top of the sub (surely there is a better name for that)...

I think its called a conning tower.

Title: Re: The city and the sub
Post by: Jeremy Roussak on September 23, 2015, 02:10:46 pm

Love it, Matt. Everything about it.

Jeremy

Title: Re: The city and the sub
Post by: Dale Villeponteaux on September 23, 2015, 02:51:47 pm

Quote from: Bob_B on September 22, 2015, 08:18:25 am

Very nice. For me, the ambient light shining off of the sub's hull is wonderful and fits the scene perfectly.

Also called a sail due, I assume, to it's shape.

Regards,
Dale

Title: Re: The city and the sub
Post by: Hidden Grid on September 27, 2015, 06:18:18 pm

This is nice.

Title: Re: The city and the sub
Post by: petermfiore on September 27, 2015, 06:35:01 pm

Great job....

Peter