...and The Snow Fell

[Ernest]

...and The Snow Fell
..and The Snow Fell
Covering Dreams and Ideas...

[Ted Byrne]

I wish I'd created these.

[Ernest]

Thanks

[eob]

I like both shots - for different reasons. But I would definitely consider getting rid of color which just doesn't work for me at all, and converting them into B&W.

[habakuk]

I like the way the buildings have that drastic distortion. This is very much a comic style of showing buildings and I love that. I'd probably go for a duotone version, tho.

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[Ernest]

Don't you think that B/W would looks too dark? There's not much light in there, colors are quite similiar too.

[eob]

Well, this depends entirely on one's personal taste. So, I am not going to try and convince you that the B&W version would be better. But...

I happen to think that shadows have at least as much signal (as in signal-to-noise ratio) as lights. Dark images very often provide more mood or feeling than light ones. Besides, you could easily make these images appear lighter if you wanted to. That's what we have Photoshop for...

[Ernest]

Well i'll try and put something tomorrow

[aprilS]

I'll also cast my vote for b&w. I love the geometric distortion of the buildings in the first, with the angular pathways; and the circular distortions of light with the driving snow down into the second. But in both, the color of light takes me into the mundane instead of the magic of snowfall in the night.

[Ernest]

OK it takes me couple days more, because of some little vacations I had here in Poland on 1-3rd May. Here you have some b/w versions of both:

[eob]

I like the B&W version better. Now that the color is gone, I can more easily concentrate on graphic elements.

That leads me to a realization that I am not too fond of the square crop in the first photo. I think, there is too much snowy area in the foreground. In my opinion, that photo is about the building, not snow and footprints. I would probably crop off the bottom at the level just underneath the path leading to the left. Another option for me (if I wanted to keep the snowy foreground) would be to shoot vertically from a little longer distance but retaining this surreal perspective - perhaps by shooting from the ground level.

[aprilS]

I definitely think the second is more effective in b&w.

But was surprised to see that the power of distortion seems minimized in the first. To address that, I agree with eob about a lower crop although I wouldn't take it so far up. Perhaps, instead, to a level where the angle of the foreground path intersects with a "vertical" line of the leftmost building?

An interesting study; thank you for sharing the variations.

[ilchkai]

the first image works better in colour for me, it is the subtle colour scheme, subdued palette of orange, red and yellow gives something to the image, a warmth which is lost in the b&w.