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Image Title: Market Street #2

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By: Joel Aron
Copyright ©2006

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Photographer	Joel Aron {Karma:14920}
Project	#1 Abstracts	Camera Model	Canon EOS 20D
Categories	Abstracts Architecture Digital	Film Format	Digital RAW
Portfolio	San Francisco San Francisco Skyline	Lens	Canon 100-400mm f/4.5-5.6L USM
Uploaded	4/17/2006	Film / Memory Type	Sandisk 1g Extreme3
		ISO / Film Speed
Views	914	Shutter	1/160 sec
Favorites	6	Aperture	f/7.1
Critiques	58	Rating	6.16 / 13 Ratings
Location	City - San Francisco State - CALIFORNIA Country - United States
About	Driving around San Francisco in the rain on Easter Sunday looking for something to shoot, I looked up at the intersection of 5th and Market. Quickly pulled over, grabbed the camera and the tripod, and ran for cover from the rain. The entire time I was shooting these shots, I could hear my car stereo playing Philip Glass' "Glassworks", because I left the car doors open in haste. Perfect music for what I was shooting. The rain water, and overcast day added an amazing glow and sheen to the newer buildings on Market. This being the very tight crop from my first angle, with the lens this time at 105mm. Slight contrast and curves in PS, as well as the crop. Very tiny unsharp mask to pop the edges. Tried my best to keep it from gettin 'aliasy' in the curves when converted to JPEG for UF. Any ideas? Tried so many sizes, and even tried w/o any sharp filter. Must be a detail and contrast issue w/ Jpeg. Sill in love with the exposure range with this lens. ISO100 f/7.1 1/160 sec

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Julie Salles {K:22654} 4/10/2008

Your work is inspiring Joel. I have been looking at your images for the past 30 minutes and have been inspired but many. This one is one of my favorites.
Best,
Julie.

Joel Aron {K:14920} 11/30/2006

Thanks Jim.

Yeah, this is where I found nirvana with my lens feeding my eye what I wanted to capture and feel.

The SF downtown is no different from any city.. except for the fact that the building s are shorter (for obvious reasons), so they make them more interesting from the ground view. I was almost a few blocks away for this, in the rain. seeing the two buildings contrast each other had me pull my car over as fast as I could to get out and setup for the shot.

thanks again!
cheers,
-Joel

Jim Greenfield {K:5172} 11/30/2006

i love this series. i am jealous that you had access to such a cool building. I'd like to take some images in downtown Cleveland but my safety concerns me. Atlanta and Dallas have great buildings too but I didn't have a chance to shoot in either city.

Joel Aron {K:14920} 7/16/2006

Thank you Very much Shirley.

..it's one of my personal favorites :)

cheers,
-joel

Shirley D. Cross-Taylor

{K:174136} 7/15/2006

Very beautiful and strong architectural abstract.

Joel Aron {K:14920} 7/9/2006

Thank you so much Ciprian!

It is one of my personal favorites..and I am so glad that you like it!

If you're ever in SF, you must hunt this building down!

cheers,
-joel

Ciprian Ilie {K:13571} 7/5/2006

Gorgeous! This is such a lovely abstract, with the black and white, the curves, the squares, the lights, the composition, everything seems to fall into place.

I'd be very proud if this was my image.

The reflections are super.

Regards,
Ciprian

Joel Aron {K:14920} 6/9/2006

thanks clifton!

...was inspired by your work!

cheers,
-joel

Clifton Jones

{K:10688} 6/8/2006

This is great....excellent tone and contrast quality....superb composition..........

Joel Aron {K:14920} 6/8/2006

So.... Michael, welcome to the freak world :)

thanks for havin a look at the new home page :) ...i got bored on the plane, and started playin around!

got your email... will reply today! wish I had my wide lens... going up to the roof today for more pano's of HK. ...but it's a freakin monsoon here today. maybe if a boat flys by it'll make the shot interesting!

cheers,

-joel

Joel Aron {K:14920} 6/8/2006

Thanks Ferran! ..very much!

ya know...i tried b/w w/ the girl by the train, but it lost it's image. I wanted to always remember those white gloves, and that blue dress, so perfectly posed in contrast together. I will stil try...as the thought is there, and you've suggested so...

cheers, and thanks for the great comments, and browsing my portfolio!

cheers,
-joel

Ferran Rial {K:6670} 6/8/2006

Hi what up!
I reviewed your portfolio again to see what's new. I gotta say again that i like the way you photograph buildings, I like it very much! By the way, your last upload is great, with that girl standing next to the train. May be i'd look great in BW too.

Cheers Joel!
ferran

Michael Kanemoto {K:22115} 6/7/2006

Joel:

Just had to say that using this photograph for the entryway to your website is so "badasp".

The light is great symbolism for one who guides in a world of uniformity.

MikeyPhreak

Joel Aron {K:14920} 5/30/2006

Thank you Mark!

...so agree... one of the best buildings in the city!

cheers,
-Joel

Mark Julian

{K:36866} 5/15/2006

Great Shot, 444 Market St. Know the building well - one of San Francisco's most beautifully perfect...good eye, Mark

Enas Moussa {K:7470} 5/8/2006

perfect abstract shot.. great lins, contrat and sharpness..
congrats Joel..

Joel Aron {K:14920} 5/7/2006

Emgy,

thank you so very much! I am honored that this is one of your favorites!! very kind comments, very much appreciated!!

cheers,
-Joel

Emgy Massidda {K:60358} 5/6/2006

Impressive piece of artwork going straight into my favorites. Perfectly balanced image, great nuances in the tones and a well chosen angle. I think the tight crop works fine here. The architecture is eye-catching, interesting and beautiful.Congratulations on this outstanding shot, Joel!
Regards - Emgy

Joel Aron {K:14920} 4/24/2006

Wow Leo! thank you very much!!!
I am so glad that you like it!!!

cheers,
-joel

Leo Régnier Я£ {K:67696} 4/24/2006

Realy fantastic!!!
Made favorite...
Leo

Joel Aron {K:14920} 4/21/2006

John,

thank very much!! Very honored to have this as one of your fave's! Appreciate your comments very much!

cheers,
-joel

Johnny Kurtz {K:893} 4/21/2006

Absolutely stunning, Joel; very well done. I have added yet another one of your works to my favorites.

Joel Aron {K:14920} 4/20/2006

Thanks again Manu!!

ready to eat! didn't even think of licorice! ..i'll have to go for a 'red vines' image next of the GG bridge!

cheers,
-joel

Manu {K:13082} 4/20/2006

One GIANT licorice building...ready to eat..! Excellent in all areas

Manu

Joel Aron {K:14920} 4/20/2006

Thank you very much Galal!

cheers,
-Joel

Galal El Missary {K:84569} 4/20/2006

Perfect shot , nice play with lines , very well taken .

Galal

Joel Aron {K:14920} 4/20/2006

Hugo.

Sorry for the long delay back on this! Work is getting a bit heavy lately...even though I wish looking at images on usefilm were my day job sometimes!

Thank you so much for the in depth comments regarding these shots. It was a pre-determined series that I knew I was going to shoot that day. The 3rd image (the wide 'lines' shot with the trees) was tossed in as an afterthought, in that I didn't even plan to start alter it till I got home. I do like for what qualities work with it, but I do agree with you. It twists, and wish that I were about 1/2 a mile to the left to get a little head on to the buildings. Lesson learned there!

The two that match in the series were the entire reason I went down town. I knew that somewhere, a building would present itself to me..low and behold it did!

I'm going to have to go back there when it's not pouring rain, cause I wanted to get a better line up on the curved building. It was a long wrestle with lens distortion, image detail, and contrasts. The lines got pretty straight, (that center one on this image is pretty much dead on) but I see whatyou're saying...a *very* tiny amount of rotation can stand to be had here.

I do agree with you, in that I could have taken it a few more levels and steps on breaking out the blacks a bit more. It's good to hear you way that, because it confirms that I can push harder on my duo, and tri tone images. As I use Photoshop, and our own in-house type tools for a living, I sometimes find it difficult to take images too far in photoshop. In fact, I am friends with, and am now working with the creater of photoshop on a project. He's the guy who loaned me the 100-400L.

For me, to alter photos too much is still a crime (for some reason) in my mind, but that's what I have to get over, as i'm so use to creating something from nothing, and making look like a photo real thing. So to take a photo, and and make it an even better photo with bending lens distortion, and wacking out blacks with mattes, and isolated contrast areas... just makes me think I'm at work ;)
...gotta get past that!

Well...yikes, Almost went on a work tangent there! I'll save you from that, and say thank you once again a very wonderful review and eye on my new images. I wish we all had the time to comment, and help *see* what's missing for all photos here....but that would be an a full time job...so I honestly appreciate your time with these!

Congrats on a few days in a row of front page images! You've got a very good eye!

cheers,
-joel

Joel Aron {K:14920} 4/19/2006

Grzegorz,

thank you very much!

cheers,
-joel

Grzegorz Markowski {K:6537} 4/19/2006

interesting

Joel Aron {K:14920} 4/19/2006

Thank you Petal :)

Yes.... i'm going to have to buy one of these lenses. It makes me run around like freak, taking pitcutres of anything a mile away...and having the damn straightest lines I've ever shot with!

Have fun in NYC!!!! (gonna bring a super wide lens, and go to the empire state bldg?)

cheers,
-joel

Joel Aron {K:14920} 4/19/2006

Thank you veyr much Paul!

cheers,
-joel

Joel Aron {K:14920} 4/19/2006

Thank you very much Elisa!

So glad you like it! :)
-joel

Petal Wijnen

{K:50989} 4/18/2006

Fabulous!! Super tones, just love those two ceiling lights visible through the windows, fantastic line play, excellent crop and composition... well captured!! Looks to me like you're going to keep that lens... ;-DDDDDDDD
BTW hope to get some great high-rise shots too next week... NY here I come... LOL!!

Hugo de Wolf {K:185110} 4/18/2006

Hi Joel,

Again a fascinating series, It took me some time before I managed to comment on it, but that also refined my thoughts, I hope.

Comparing this series, I think it's essentially a diptych, one of these, and the overview. I picked this one to comment on, as I believe it's the best of the three, and is the strongest as stand alone too.

In brief, here's the reason why:

The similar shot to this one has a bit too much focus on the left of the photo, unbalancing the composition a tad; the simplicity of the scene is perhaps a bit stronger than in this one, though.

The thing that bugs me about the overview is that the vertical lines seem to have a counter clockwise tilt in it. Not sure if that's because of the perspective or a slightly slanted camera position. Also, the trees in the foreground slightly reduce the coherence with the following two images, I believe.

As this one is more balanced in it's composition (good crop, eventhough I've looked at these for a while now without reading your description, I only now realise it's the same, with a tight crop!) the primary subjects (to me, the entanglement of lines, reflections and interwoven patterns) comes out much stronger.

That brings me to the subject itself; the interwoven pattern of lines, curves and reflections is awesome, making the middle section almost perfectly ortogonal is a great touch, especially as the sides are aligned at a different angle. The left side seems slightly overexposed, but that's basically unimportant, as it doesn't distract, and I think it does show the apperance on the grey overcast day pretty well, the even light reduces the contrasts anyway, flattening structures, so the lack of details is just minor.

As to the image quality, I think masking the darkest areas with a small feather, copying them onto a new layer, reselecting them and then applying a minor surface blur (not touching the edges, hence the need to reselect the new layer) would do the trick; The effect would be a noise reduction in those areas, without losing the sharpness of the edges, and if applied subtly, there would be no painted feel added either.

One thing you might want to correct, is the very minor counter clockwise tilt in the vertical lines which are present in this photo too. Maybe even a bit of perspective correction, as the lines seem to diverge a bit towards the top of the image, but that's only a deception of the eye.

Cool stuff...:)

Cheers,

Hugo

Paul's Photos {K:35235} 4/18/2006

outstanding... I love the perspective. the lines... everything... what a great capture

NN {K:26787} 4/18/2006

How c o o l is this?!? Gorgeus lines and shapes! Very well composed/balanced, and for me the two interior lights add a nice touch of colour, and having that shape they suit very well here. Superb stuff; congrats!