I was on a one-day field trip to NYC from South Carolina. This was taken on a tour bus with a 110 Kodak camera. My parents knew what direction I was headed when I came home with 11 rolls of film to develop. I had completely forgotten about this picture until I came across it while organizing my mounds of photos. Other than adjusting the perspective and cloning out the many dust and scratches, I left it alone.
Yeah, Sara, I totally agree about the sky. But try as I might and did, I quickly discovered that a 4x6 image of 110 film scanned on a 4 year old flatbed doesn't lend itself well to curves, levels, burning, dodging, or much of anything :). The noise was horrendous using my Photshop 5.5 student edition.
What an eerie 14 year prophecy. The grain coupled with the dusting of snow = the ash from that terrible day we will all remember. And the magnificent towering giants, a ghostly presence. Almost as if they knew, "Enjoy us now, for soon we will be no more."
Great tension, focal point, and imagine all out a dirty bus window on the fly. VERY nice.
My only critique would be the light from the sky seems overpowering (not that you can fix it or were even going for the perfect shot at 13 years old) )
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{K:17558} 7/31/2004