Rural Silos

[Steaphany]

Here are a couple film captures with my Mamiya RB67 Pro SD, Mamiya K/L 65mm f/4.0, and Kodak Ektar 100

Attebury, Wichita Falls, Texas

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Just Another Silo

[Shadowman]

Hi Steaphany,

As these silos seem to still be active who do you think will be interested in purchasing? I ask because our community at one point argued over the proposed demolition of its grain silos, the preservationists won the argument and now the grain silos are being used for various purposes (art installation, entertainment facility, proposed apartments). Whenever I see industrial complexes, structures I think perhaps the former owner or their family might want an image or perhaps some preservation group. A general audience may not have any use for images such as these unless there was some extraordinary processing or lighting used. Just wondering if you've researched potential audiences for these images.

[Wavelength]

Nice pair of images

[Steaphany]

John,

These two images are among several silos that I have collected images of here in North Central Texas. Some are active, others are abandoned, some still stand next to railway lines while others have lost rail access long ago. Along with the railway photography that I have done, silos seemed an obvious extension to a common feature of rural Texas.

[Wavelength]

Right now i heard about a disaster of flying balloon from texas; is it from your premises?

[Steaphany]

The balloon crash was South of Austin, I'm just a bit South of Wichita Falls up North near the Red River and the border with Oklahoma. Tragic loss of life with all 16 in the balloon.

[IzzieK]

Steaphany, I like your images, especially the first one, but I am a little bit distracted by the bottom of each shots. Sort of different from what everyone here submits. Just a thought.

[Round Tuit]

Hi Steaphany,

I like the first shot. It might have been better without the black SUV. The second one looks way overexposed to me. +1 to Izzie's comment with respect to the advertising.

Regards,

Andre

[Steaphany]

I editted my post, I was trying the default "embed" feature from Fine Art America to save on hosting the images else where and saving a little work. I hacked a bit of fine art's code, found a back door, and cleared away the advert banner from each image.

Let me know how this works out for you ( hoping the cheat is available to everyone )

[Steaphany]

I shot two exposures of the Attebury silo, in one I waited for the scene to be free of all traffic and the other as seen here. when reviewing each, the lack of traffic left the scene a bit sterile, where this has at least a little something happening and adds a recognizable sense of scale.

[Steaphany]

Hi Steaphany,
The second one looks way overexposed to me.

Andre,

I recognize that the scene contains many elements which are white, the silo, trailers of the trucks, the gravel of the drive way, but none of these are actually over exposed, they come close, as what you'd get with a high key photo, but I felt the level of white made a nice counter to the pure cloudless sky. The flow of the scene elements also approximate a Yin / Yang form which is why I chose this crop with the edge of the lawn serving as a leading line.

[IzzieK]

The shots looks better now without the white part...

[Donald]

I think these are wonderful images. By coincidence, I've just been reading an article on one of the magazines to which I subscribe that featured and composite image of 9 cement silos. A photographer (I think it was in the USA) made it a project to make images of these silos. All from the same viewpoint, so that the viewer can compare and contrast the different designs of the structures.

These, in my view, are much better images.

I don't know if anyone above has specifically mention colour. I think these are wonderful examples of where colour works perfectly as part of artwork; i.e. it just not being a case of 'Well, that happened to be the colour'. I think each image has a wonderfully restrained colour palette that works wonderfully well. I am really enjoying looking at these.

[Round Tuit]

Hi Steaphany,

Your images look much better without the banner. Since you put the SUV in the Attebury shot on purpose, I'm OK with it. As for the overexposure in the second photo, I looked at it on my calibrated monitor and I stand corrected. It is not over exposed but is definitely high key. Were it mine, I would have darkened it to make the colors pop. But then it wouldn't be your photo anymore and Donald most likely would not like it either.

Andre

[Steaphany]

For Donald and to complete my silo set to date, here are a couple more, both captured with my Sigma SD14:

In Railways Shadow

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Lonely Sentinel

[IzzieK]

This is so much better, Steaphany. I love the way you pp this last two.

[Shadowman]

Nice edits and angle of view.