Matt Conti  

Hollywood Broadwalk by Matt Conti

January 2025 - Hollywood Broadwalk

January 2025 - Matt Conti

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January 2025 - Matt Conti

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January 2025 - Matt Conti

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About the Image(s)

I enjoy my daily walks here in Southern Florida. A common one for me, and many others, is the Hollywood Broadwalk, bustling with beach walkers, bicyclists, outdoor gyms and peppered by unique lifeguard shacks. My favorite time is sunrise but the real action takes place later in the day and into the night. With this composite, I was trying to capture all of that in a montage of scenes from a typical day along the broadwalk.

I started with the lifeguard shack in roughly the center and then added the other images to make a compelling montage. I brought them together with similar contrast and used a gradient map selecting colors from the images themselves. I felt it need some texture so I used an overlay of shells to be consistent with the beach theme.

6 comments posted

Kirsti Näntö-Salonen   Kirsti Näntö-Salonen
Hi Matt! What an interesting kaleidoscope of images! One could spend hours watching it and keep finding new details and stories. I think that I notice the people first. When I blink, the image settles so that the shack against the brighter yellow patch of the sky, the palms at the right edge, and the pair of spectators at the bottom edge seem to anchor it in space, and frame the rest of the activity. I think that the duotone and the graphic ink-like quality give it a lovely look of an old book illustration. - I like the shell texture a lot but I wonder how the image would look like without it?   Posted: 01/06/2025 12:31:33
Matt Conti   Matt Conti
Thanks Kirsti for your thoughtful feedback. I wanted to show how it looked before the shell texture. I obviously would have softened the image lines but this gives you an idea. As you can tell, I used the texture with a mask to fill in a lot of the spaces to bring it together. Thanks again! --Matt   Posted: 01/15/2025 20:33:55
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Alan Kaplan   Alan Kaplan
This is a terrific blending job. The individual parts merge together seamlessly to produce palpable energy. Using only 2 colors is the glue that helps hold all of the pieces together, and the bright spots are placed judiciously in the image to draw the viewer's vision around the canvas. Nice work.   Posted: 01/06/2025 22:19:04
Peggy Nugent   Peggy Nugent
This is so cool, Matt! I love the colors and how there is enough detail to know what each scene is but not so much as to be distracting. I like the shell texture; it brings home for me the feeling of the beach (and finding sand and little shell bits in everything when I got home).
I think your composition works really well.
My eye moves all around the image except for the upper right hand corner; I wish I could see what was going on there.   Posted: 01/12/2025 17:20:25
Matt Conti   Matt Conti
Thanks Peggy! Yes, I see what you mean about the dark corner and that is something for me to work on. Maybe I can add another image to the composite there that would fit better. Thanks again. --Matt   Posted: 01/15/2025 20:35:50
Bruce Harley   Bruce Harley
First thing that hit me was the blue and orange colours - opposites in the colour wheel that are bound to appeal to the viewer.
Its a lovely merge of the subjects onto the main panel with multple stories for the viewer to imagine. It also has depth which is hard to do on a splash screen like this. The colour scheme has maintained the shadow detail. There are multiple interest in the image.
I see its use as promoting an area or event, such as a poster, or by a business. Great job.   Posted: 01/13/2025 16:00:20

 

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