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Copyright: greg michael (greg) Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Star Workshop Editor/Gold Note Writer [C: 651 W: 310 N: 95] (2855)
Genre: Places
Medium: Black & White
Date Taken: 2005-05
Categories: Architecture
Camera: Canon PowerShot G3
Photo Version: Original Version
Date Submitted: 2005-07-29 17:30
Viewed: 1507
Points: 15
[Note Guidelines] Photographer's Note
Odd picture, this one. Not sure why I like it, but there's something there. Pretty sure I must have taken it for the soviet georgian and cyrillic sign, since decaying concrete doesn't usually grab me. You can find places like this in any FSU country - I've shopped in many. The best part is how you have to queue three times - once to select what it is that you want to buy, and get it weighed, cut, whatever, and put aside; once in a different place to pay, reciting the item, the price, and at which counter you found it; and then a last time to give the chit to the counter-girl and receive your goods. About a half-dozen items was about the best I ever managed in a single visit.

I used a b/w conversion method I've never tried before: in 16-bit, multiplied a blue-channel layer by a plain desaturated layer. This accentuates the whiteness of the sky, but appears to leave a better dynamic range in the remaining areas than if I'd just taken the blue.
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Wow, really cool photo, Greg! I love the black and white, the decay, the depression. Fine post!

Alli

A fascinating shot of this Univermag and another side to this town famous for its churches. I saw a lot of run down buildings and factories in my visit to Georgia in 2001 so this image is not unexpected. Georgia is falling apart with many semi-independent parts to the country going their own way. Acharia succumbed to the central government last year and I wonder if the county is starting to pull itself together again. Maybe one day soon they will start to rebuild.

It's so overwhelmingly drab it becomes cool! The tones are excellent (except for the sky...) and the two people are a nice touch, providing scale and humanizing things.

The right side is a bit cut off, is a wider crop possible? No matter, it's excellent as it is.

Now decaying concrete and buildings do grab me. I like the way you captured it standing there so alone and so stark. This desaturation treatment really adds to the starkness of the scene. And without your note and noticing the people I would have thought this building was long abandoned. But being functional makes things even starker yet. And the sky is the final touch on that giving it that sort of cold, rainy day sort of feel. It just seems a bit too cut off on the right side rather than having at least some space beyond the end of the facade. BUt other than that minor thing it is a great capture of such a stark object.

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  • nygus Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Note Writer [C: 196 W: 0 N: 598] (7914)
  • [2005-07-30 3:50]

nice effect and precios documentary from nostalgic world going away

humm not much to buy here I guess?? it looks as if a bomb had destroyed the whole place... scary in a way!
nice b&w post treatment greg!
Eric

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  • krzbia Gold Star Critiquer/Silver Workshop Editor/Silver Note Writer [C: 84 W: 10 N: 28] (242)
  • [2005-07-30 18:00]
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Yeah, there are some of these everywhere - not only FSU. I like the pp very much - the 'old photo' style border also adds climate to this picture. Congratulations

Everything good, but the composition. It could've been a bit better. Anyway I like it.

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