i’ve been looking through the shortlisted photos and there are some are rejects which didn’t make the final selection which were worth commenting on. so here goes:
the tower shadows:
this top photo looks quite sharp from this thumbnail, but on closer inspection it’s obvious it was taken through a mucky window (not much opportunity to give them a wipe that high off the ground). the muck has given the photo a mockled effect, especially in the darker areas, so for technical reasons this was rejected.
this was another attempt to capture the tower’s own shadow, but this photo is let down by the over-blown highlights of the building (particularly the white tower in the background). Since it couldn’t be recovered, and it’s a hugely stunning photo, i’ve put it in the rejects pile
Views of the tower from the ground
the sky on the shot above wasn’t very interesting, and it was difficult to get this nicely exposed and the road below. the shot ended up over-exposed to record the detail on the road, and my attempts to salvage the sky wasn’t very successful. the scene isn’t particularly interesting so i rejected this one.
the idea of this shot was to show an arrow pointing upwards in the same direction of the tower. the shot, whilst a nice idea, doesn’t really work because of the amount of background ‘mess’ with the tree etc. for this kind of graphic shot to work it would need to be nice and clean. sadly this also went in the reject pile.
sadly, it was the same with the one below where the foreground arrow is a little too dark. it would need lots of work in photoshop to balance the foreground and background, and again, it’s an interesting picture, but unlikely to be in my final dozen
The curse of rogue chairs and uninterested people
i attempted to get some shots of the interior of the top of the tower, but didn’t pay enough attention to where the seats were and ended up with some awkward looking shots. this is a real shame as it would have been easy to move a few of the chairs (although there were other people in the area – it was after all a just before a work meeting!)
similarly i tried to get some pictures of the people who worked there. there’s a rogue chair below and the chap’s expression/position above isn’t particularly interesting
this was potentially a nice picture of the view from up the tower, but there’s too much reflection of the windows to the right of the picture and the sky
this shot is quite nice, but, again, there’s a building blown out in the background
this shot had a similar problem – it’s a nice document of some food at the top of the tower, but there’s little to really grab the eye and draw the viewer’s attention
i also had lots of shots of the tower seemingly springing out the roof of different buildings, such as this one
i like this photo which is a close up of the tower in a puddle. however, it looks just like a poor quality photo if you don’t realise it’s a reflection. i’ve got other more obvious pictures so for this assignment i decided to reject it
i absolutely love this photo below which shows the chap who works the lift, but sadly the photo isn’t sharp enough so had to be rejected. it looks great as a small thumbnail (below), but the large version just doesn’t make the mark
