Ed O’Rourke  


House on a Hill by Ed O’Rourke

April 2021 - House on a Hill

About the Image(s)

First, I'd like to apologize for being late with my image. I had an operating system crash; had to reinstall the OS and all the applications I use; then find all my data files for recovery, along with the file with all my accounts and passwords (during this I was locked out of my admin access for our group). But its all fixed now.

Our local camera club had a monthly theme of "local buildings" and this is the clubhouse for our local golf course. I took the shot with my Canon 7D,EF-S 18-55mm lens at 42mm; f10, 1/400 ss, 250 ISO, and aperture priority. I cropped from the top and bottom so the clubhouse would dominate. Had to do a little rotation to have the white trim lines vertical and worked as saturating the contrast and colors a bit.


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6 comments posted




Mark Bargen   Mark Bargen
would be a drive that would have run across the frame. a lot to like here. The crop seems ideal: breathing room both to the left and right, plenty of negative space / sky above, and just enough foreground. I like where you chose to stand to shoot, looking up, so that the stone wall obscures the view of what I'm guessing would have been a drive running next to the building and across the frame. All-in-all it works superbly to support the title.

If you hadn't told me, I wouldn't have guessed that you worked the saturation on the building. Nice delicate touch there.

You might be noticing that I really enjoy post-processing, and esp. enjoy fiddling with other folks' images where I don't have a romantic attachment to my own expwerience at the time the image was captured. I hope that's not offensive.

I did try a couple of techniques to heighten the dimensionality: a gradient up from the bottom to add texture up close, receding up the hill; an adjustment brush (with luminance range mask) to make the stone wall a bit clearer; and another gradient coming down through the roofs, with a color range mask to limit the effect to the roofs themselves, to gently emphasize the receding slope of the roofs. As always, this is just be playing around with a bit of "well, this is a possibility ..."

  Posted: 04/13/2021 12:26:15
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Ed O’Rourke   Ed O’Rourke
Mark, I just wanted to say that I really don't mind the "fiddling" you do with the images. Actually I like it and hope you continue. I tend to minimize the post processing I do (perhaps because I don't think I quite know what I'm doing) so I appreciate the ideas which you present for me to think about. Your ideas do encourage me, and some day I might get more confidence to try some of those things myself.

Thanks   Posted: 04/18/2021 13:53:27



Mark Bargen   Mark Bargen
It also occurred to me that one could (if one wished) make the image feel more ominous ...   Posted: 04/13/2021 12:43:15
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Darcy Quimby   Darcy Quimby
Ed
Very interesting position for the building I like the fact that it takes up almost the whole of the frame. One thing my eye is drawn to is the windows at the top of the building in the middle. I like that my eyes are drawn to both windows where you can see sky through them.   Posted: 04/23/2021 14:39:03



 
Another fine photograph Ed. Atypical for a golf course image without including the 18th hole.   Posted: 04/27/2021 13:00:12
Ed O’Rourke   Ed O’Rourke
I'm not a golfer so I only took a shot of the 19th hole   Posted: 04/27/2021 13:47:50