Cem_Usakligil
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Some facades from Amsterdam....
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Chris Calohan
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Love the 4th one as there are lots of modes of transportation but more because the two rears are facing one another - car and the woman's derriere.
Oh-oh, just noticed the boats are rear to rear also...nice catch!
Oh-oh, just noticed the boats are rear to rear also...nice catch!
Bart_van_der_Wolf
pro member
Hi Cem,
Great series. The third one is my favorite, superb timing, cat and man striding in the same direction and pace. The first one is really disorienting, as if the center building is collapsing.
The connecting element, besides the facades theme, are the recurring bikes in every image. Of course it's hard to exclude them in Amsterdam ...
Cheers,
Bart
Great series. The third one is my favorite, superb timing, cat and man striding in the same direction and pace. The first one is really disorienting, as if the center building is collapsing.
The connecting element, besides the facades theme, are the recurring bikes in every image. Of course it's hard to exclude them in Amsterdam ...
Cheers,
Bart
Asher Kelman
OPF Owner/Editor-in-Chief
Many photographers show images of wonderful facades, perfect architecture or run-down neglected industrial areas or the streets of the neglected. Here you've gone for none of these easier choices.
This is about the most complex series I've seen from you, Cem; a rather daring step into a non-perfect world.
By using wide views of non perfect scenes, you have taken on a challenge of high order. These could be considered travel snaps, but they are far more, as each helps explain its neighbor.
In addition to all the points made, the series carries a fabric of structural formality wedded to disorder. This is the fight we make of our lives. We need the lamppost straight and functional but then we depend on the tree even more, with it's naturally stochastic behavior, like the cat, people, bicycles, graffiti and parts of buildings, that with their random untidiness, make the places home and human.
Be encouraged that this is fine work. I hope you continue your drive as you build on this collection. We will all learn a lot from you and enjoy the ride.
Asher
This is about the most complex series I've seen from you, Cem; a rather daring step into a non-perfect world.
By using wide views of non perfect scenes, you have taken on a challenge of high order. These could be considered travel snaps, but they are far more, as each helps explain its neighbor.
In addition to all the points made, the series carries a fabric of structural formality wedded to disorder. This is the fight we make of our lives. We need the lamppost straight and functional but then we depend on the tree even more, with it's naturally stochastic behavior, like the cat, people, bicycles, graffiti and parts of buildings, that with their random untidiness, make the places home and human.
Be encouraged that this is fine work. I hope you continue your drive as you build on this collection. We will all learn a lot from you and enjoy the ride.
Asher
Tom Robbins
Member
I like them all, Cem, but agree with Bart about that third one being the champ. All of the elements are in harmony.
Rachel Foster
New member
Love your architectural shots, Cem.
Cem_Usakligil
Well-known member
Thanks Bart, Asher, Tom and Rachel.
Tom I'm glad to see you are still around and the same applies to Rachel of course.
Tom I'm glad to see you are still around and the same applies to Rachel of course.
Asher you are very kind as always, thank you. I haven't considered this series in those terms of complexity as you've described but I'm near sighted when it comes to my own work. The collection is already quite extensive as I've been taking these pictures for some years now and in many different cities. Perhaps it is about time for me to start curating it.
Tom Robbins
Member
Still kicking around, Cem. Still lugging the old camera around, too. I'd post here more often but since I'm now retired from corporate life, I've been very busy chasing the neighbor's kids off my lawn.
Rachel Foster
New member
I'm kicking, too, but I've done little with the camera. I need to find the joy again.
Tom Robbins
Member
Best wishes on your search for the joy, Rachael. Photography is a wonderful way to exercise a little creativity, and is also a great way to get outside and work off the morning bagel.
Jerome Marot
Well-known member
Did you use a tilt and shift lens to correct the perspective on these pictures?
Cem_Usakligil
Well-known member
I wish I still had a tilt shift lens Jerome. These are all perspective corrected in the post processing I'm afraid. Mind you, I still tried to keep the camera as vertically level as possible (and then crop the foreground) but it wasn't always possible due to the limited room to step backwards. There were canals just behind me, lol.
Robert Watcher
Well-known member
Some facades from Amsterdam....
Are the buildings really this distorted Cem? It does not look right to me. The strange distortions of Windows and floors looks like warp adjustments in Photoshop. If the horizontal lines were crooked - it would just be kind of unique - but with the windows doing all kinds of strange things - - - I find them a little difficult to look at - - - - unless indeed that is exactly how the buildings are built.
Cem_Usakligil
Well-known member
The buildings are this crooked indeed Rob. They are centuries old and the changes happened gradually. I suspect that they had to refit the windows every few decades. I'll show some more examples.
Cem_Usakligil
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Cem_Usakligil
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Robert Watcher
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Wow - that is crazy. Almost an optical illusion. It's hard to me to get my head around . Thanks for clarifying.
I just did a Google search " facades from Amsterdam" and there were many images of the strangely formed buildings. It would be a cool place to shoot.
. Thanks for clarifying.I just did a Google search " facades from Amsterdam" and there were many images of the strangely formed buildings. It would be a cool place to shoot.
fahim mohammed
Well-known member
Cem, an excellent series you are collecting here. I would love to live by a canal!!
Regards.
Regards.
Cem_Usakligil
Well-known member
Thanks Fahim. Living by the canals in Amsterdam is quite an attractive proposition, also for me. One will have to take the good with the bad as usual. The traffic is very busy, parking is next to impossible, if you are on the ground floor you haven't got much privacy from passers by, etc.
Winston Mitchell
Member
Cem,
Wonderful thread.
Inspiring work.
Glad you're back.
Wonderful thread.
Inspiring work.
Glad you're back.