Road and clouds

[Nichole Lampron]

I was not sure what to call this one. I really like this one, it's from Lowell, Massachusetts a few years ago from a overpass I was walking on.

http://i1023.photobucket.com/albums/af357/nicholeamy/b2a38ba659f503657cbe20c4828ceb3e.jpg

Nichole Lampron: Road and Clouds

[Asher Kelman]

I was not sure what to call this one. I really like this one, it's from Lowell, Massachusetts a few years ago from a overpass I was walking on.

http://i1023.photobucket.com/albums/af357/nicholeamy/b2a38ba659f503657cbe20c4828ceb3e.jpg

Nichole Lampron: Road and Clouds

Nichole,

To my mind, likely to only my mind, this is an abstraction, not of what we see but of what we are. The bus is a toy bus and the cars playthings too.

If Rockwell would do pictures of typical American overpasses, this might be one of them. It has a feeling of ideal cleanliness and order or ordinary life. There are no stresses, murders, people selling drugs. It's a sunny day and everything is peachy.

I too would be wondering what to call this image but Roads and clouds is a title that abstracts us from the same harsher parts of life as the picture.

Asher

[Ruben Alfu]

Hi Nichole,

It´s an interesting scene of a rainstorm taking over a sunny day. The avenue in the foreground seems to be an invitation to go into the town or a way to escape from the storm.

[Nichole Lampron]

Asher, that is an interesting take on this image that I had never even thought of. I always feel a calming effect when I look at it though.

[Michael K. Carberry]

Nice has an almost 3D quality.Title?uhm........Encroachment?

[John Angulat]

Hi Nichole,
I quite like this image and have come back to view it more than a few times.
I enjoyed Asher's description - I agree, it does have a Rockwell-esq air about it.

[Nichole Lampron]

Thanks everyone, this is one of my faves and I'm tempted to print this one hang it up on my wall.

[Asher Kelman]

Thanks everyone, this is one of my faves and I'm tempted to print this one hang it up on my wall.

What did you do, if anything in post processing? I'm interested in the tonalities and hues that make it seem like toyland fused with the town from "Middle America" with the affordable building project of Baley Park in "It's a wonderful Life"

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/9/95/Its_A_Wonderful_Life_Movie_Poster.jpg

Now can you give us more like this or is it a one=off?

Asher

[Nichole Lampron]

Actually this one was a very lucky one. I didn't have to do anything in post with it. Even I'm scratching my head at that one before anyone says anything. As for more like this, I am looking to do more but I have not been able to duplicate the results. But that does not mean I am not trying. I want to do more like this one and have a series of images like this one. Someday when I get out of Florida and back north where I can get conditions similar to this again.

Not saying I want to duplicate this, but something with the same feel would be perfect.

[Asher Kelman]

http://i1023.photobucket.com/albums/af357/nicholeamy/b2a38ba659f503657cbe20c4828ceb3e.jpg

Nichole Lampron: Road and Clouds

Nichole,

The shadows of this pictures are very hard and the length of them is not great. That mean we are talking about pretty hard light and the sun must have been shining pretty directly through a part of that sky. Likely it was mid day. The cloud cover then gave it a second source of diffuse light.

So maybe you can find such conditions in Florida where it can rain hard in the morning and the sun is out shortly afterwards. This around noon or so will give that sort of light when the sum beaks through the storm clouds and makes large buses in to a child's toys.

Asher

[Michael K. Carberry]

Nice,I prefer using what's already there to make an image work.Luck,preparation or vision call it what you wish.IMO digital is allowing photography into the arena of painting.Nothing wrong with that but it's diluting the medium IMO.Might be why I prefer a Weston Master II for a light meter too. :)

[Nichole Lampron]

Same here Michael. I usually shoot on film, this was one of those rare digital shots I took.

Asher, I checked back through my records because you got me thinking about what the time of day this was. I checked and it was at 3:47 PM and it was shot on June 22, 2007.

[Asher Kelman]

Same here Michael. I usually shoot on film, this was one of those rare digital shots I took.

Asher, I checked back through my records because you got me thinking about what the time of day this was. I checked and it was at 3:47 PM and it was shot on June 22, 2007.

Now you can look up what the position of the sun was relative to where you were pointing your camera.

You can look up the latitude and longitude of your location and you will know the angle of the light too.

The extra elements of your shot was cloud cover but hard sun light shining though too. So you had a giant softbox and a point source of light at the same time.

Asher