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Photographer’s Note

Here is a shot from my town, Rennes.

Actually, Rennes is quite an important town, around 300.000 inhabitants, but it has few high buildings.
This one is called 'Les Horizons' for its being seen far away from Rennes. The first thing that you see when you drive to Rennes is that building. It had been raised in the 1970's, in a very modern style.

I took this shot from the base of the building. The sky was a typically breton sky, that is grey, grey and grey. Though I wanted to play with the contrast between the sky and the darkness of the Horizons.

Added contrast.

cmarino, LEA, kiara, carmem_busko, mlopes, Boo-Boo, Paolo, photofarm, Steft trouve(nt) cette note utile

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cmarino (2360) 2005-04-27 15:45

Nice shot !
Beautiful perspective... looks like the structure goes to infinite.
Indeed the grey sky did not help. Anyway, the result was amazing.
Regards !

Elise_d (1943) 2005-04-27 15:47

Une photo graphique bien réussie. Un oiseau qui passe l'aurait rendue parfaite. Bravo.

jiherka (4465) 2005-04-27 16:36

C'est réellement une photo artistique. Un bon choix du sujet avec un cadrage tout de même un peu trop centré à mon gout.
Bravo David

Coyotyto (1299) 2005-04-27 17:02

Bonjour David,
Maintenant le bâtiment porte bien son nom ! Tout le monde sait bien qu'un horizon, c'est une ligne horizontale ... :o) Il n'avait pas a etre debout. Très jolie composition ! La façade à l'air d'être intéressante, j'attends la suite de ta série.

Amicalement,
Youssef.

steveegg (406) 2005-04-27 17:42

This is an intriguing shot David and it certainly caught my eye when I was looking through your images.

The building looks like a landscape from this angle, so this works very well given the name of the building. The wide format helps acentuate the horizon-like aspect.

It also works as a geometrical design and leads the viewer into the image and off into the distance. Your use of the contrast also works well.

ndb1958 (9248) 2005-04-28 0:06

Beautiful perspective! Great graphical aspect! Nice shot.

LEA (4821) 2005-04-28 6:47

C'est très réussi graphiquement. Comme le dit Elise, un oiseau aurait apporté une touche de vie à cette photo et elle aurait été parfaite.

clement (352) 2005-04-28 11:43

Salut David,
En parlant de belles courbes, celles-ci sont fameuses.
Je trouve que le ciel (breton) surexposé fonctionne très bien ici pour donner un fond blanc homogène. Ceci rend la composition abstraite.
Bravo.
Clément

jinju (14265) 2005-04-30 22:40

It looks black and white but you have it under color. I like the photo, its an interesting angle to take it from.

tontonjc (6617) 2005-05-02 16:34

Un graphisme d'enfer !! Superbes courbes et cadrage 50/50 superbe .

Salutations de la gazette sportive , et bravo

mlopes (492) 2005-05-10 15:00

Hi David,
It'been a while since my last visit to your portfolio... so many photos that i can't catch up all, sorry my friend!

This is impressive, and you fooled me. In the thumbs i thought it was some kind of urban architectural work, but now i realize that is a building, and you are watching the sky!

Very interesting POV and good creativity!

Mario

Boo-Boo (354) 2005-05-10 15:58

Very artistic picture! Love the high contrast.
Amicalement,
Jorge

Paolo (40741) 2005-05-17 5:07

What a great composition!
the perspective is really original and unreal!
very strange, but interesting.
great work.
thanks, ciao

Ulises (1026) 2005-05-18 22:10

david,
i love this picture, it has a great composition, the white sky and the building fadding in th back, i was speechless, i love it
rgrds
ulises

donluicu (23927) 2005-06-03 15:43

David c une superbe vue...on se demande ce que l'on fait, ou l'on est...si c horizontal, vertical...digne de TE en tous cas..
ciao
loic

Clochette (8076) 2005-06-08 4:59

Une belle réussite graphique, c'est bien vu.
A l'instant je vois la remarque d'Elise et je ne suis pas d'accord, un oiseau dans le champ aurait au contraire cassé l'effet, à mon avis.

Procurez-vous vite un autre appareil... ;-)

Stepan (27175) 2005-06-10 14:44

Assez psychédélique comme pov... C'est dommage que le ciel soit fade, mais c'est une belle composition.
Stéphane

capthaddock (28640) 2005-06-19 13:16

Hi David - fantastic geometry, excellent perspective, who cares if the sky was grey, this shot does not need colour.

colinbrenchley (6133) 2005-07-17 4:04

Stark shot that is very compelling to look at. Good POV and composition with the division between dark and light - I like it!

Steft (5962) 2005-07-24 6:09

I saw this photo at your introduction page and it immediately got my attention.
This is very graphically were strong work. I like the curved lines and the perspective here. Well seen!