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Photographer’s Note

What an excellent outing!
I happened to stumble upon jrj / Jack's post a few weeks ago and dropped him a line about his trip by Luxembourg. Having had the chance to meet a few other TE members already, I thought this would be a lovely opportunity to meet even more :D

So, come Saturday morning, I met not only Jack, but also John, Didier and, some time later, Knut who was gracious enough to give us a running theme for the day... in the form of apparently lost car keys (but that's a whole different story all onto itself).

The rain had settled in for the morning and we all got our rain coats and bag protection layers properly washed by the skies. Some (read - all except me) even dared to pull out their cameras while it was pouring down...
Luckily the rain subsided for the afternoon and we got to drive around and check out various parts of the town and beyond.

Of course our ultimate stop was by the Philharmonie (more about it on wikipedia or on their website).
Being utterly disappointed in my day's pictures, I decided I should still post something not to let the day pass completely un-noted on my small TE album. I feel already bad enough for not having uploaded anything from most of my previous TE encounters.

Here an unusual angle of the Philharmonie, with a slight emphasis on the moss growing on the smooth construction. I find the Philharmonie to be quite challenging in terms of photography, even though it is simply magnificent and created by simple lines. Perhaps a clear signal of my shortcomings as a potential photographer.

As for PP, I de-saturated the whole, added some contrast and lightened it up a lot. Slight sharpening right where the moss is, and that's about it. I'm not sure if I like the end result, but then again, I'm not really that fond of the picture to start with but it's the only viable one in the whole.

SchwebagMike, Luan, cobraphil8, nwoehnl, PixelTerror, tibervince, Brian, sude25 has marked this note useful

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SchwebagMike (1490) 2007-03-05 11:22

Hello Julia,

Quite a lot of postings allready showing the Philharmonie, still this is not a classic view ;) The picture itself works quite well graphically, without being too abstract. The reopetition of lines is there and I like the mirrored unregular reflection of the pillars.

To me the picture kind of shows the hugheness of the building and proofs that neverthelss it's size - after only a limited time - it is allready afected by time and weather. So that is also why I prefer to have the corner of skylight, it just fits in that context.

TFS, just a pitty you didn't mention you TE'ers meeting in Luxembourg!

Mike

rhizomes (15325) 2007-03-05 13:50

Salut Julia,
Pas mal du tout cette vue de cette architecture. Combinée à la photo de Didier, on perçoit bien la qualité du travail réalisé avec ce flou...
Bravo !
Christophe

dkeus31 (26216) 2007-03-05 13:57

Bonjour Julia,
Pas mal cette vue, je me demande si elle ne serait pas plus forte sans le coin de ciel, mais cela devriendrait vraiment de l'abstrait.
Sinon, le bokeh, le low pof et la petite dof sont bonne, mais je ne comprends pas très bien la désaturation?

Ah, je crois que tu viens de recevoir un WS...

Amicalement
Didier

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Luan (15935) 2007-03-05 14:30

Nice picture, I like those graphical lines which are crossing each other. An aesthetic work from you with a cold mood.
I like it lot
Cheers
Luan

mortijo (12264) 2007-03-05 15:45

Pas mal, pas mal, de la mousse sur la Philharmonie! Heureusement en forme de croix, l'avenir est assuré avec cette bénédiction. Et moi que faisait le tour à 2 reprises en voiture pour récupérer tout ce monde. Abec mon voyage au Pays-Bas d'aujourd'hui je n'ai pas encore eu le temps de pmoster une image et je crains ne plus oser le faire après tous ces chefs- d'oeuvre. :~))

cobraphil8 (11652) 2007-03-06 2:08

Salut Julia,
j'aime beaucoup ce croisement symbolisant une rencontre, et cela tombe plutôt bien vu que c'était le cas :)
Pas mal ta pose dans le WS, cela me rappelle une rencontre également.
Cette composition au ras du sol est intéressante... Ce qui avait le plus d'importance à une hauteur normale devient banale et inversement.
Bonne journée à toi
biz
Philippe

jrj (34779) 2007-03-06 5:55

Fine result Julia of your work from an almost lay down position by this great building. Creative and well carried out.

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nwoehnl (120) 2007-03-06 9:10

Hi Julia - glad that you enjoyed this TE meeting in Luxembourg (I met Jack and Didier in Rotterdam last year). Good approach for this architecture photo, with a creative angle to elaborate on the graphical potential of the Philharmonics building. The semi-shallow DOF turned out quite well, too. Fun to see the "at work" workshop photos as well ;o)

HOBO (5244) 2007-03-06 10:40

Hi Julia,

great pov (lol - we talked about that); would have been great to take a smaller aperture to gain more depth. I like the sc fi touch.
Regards
Knut

PixelTerror (86234) 2007-03-06 10:47

Salut Julia,
Les meetings TE c'est pas forcement des opportunites de prendre la photo du siecle, mais c'est toujours de bons moments de convivialite dont on se rappelle longtemps. C'est pas facile a imaginer que ce que tu as photographie ici est un batiment, moi ca me faisait d'abord penser a une calandre de voiture, mais on peut verifier dans les Ws que tu as recherche un angle creatif ! A propose des WS sur TE justement, j'etais dimanche soir a Paris et je faisais qq photos et c'est grace aux WS que j'ai ete reconnu par un autre membre de TE qui se trouvait la !
Bonne journee,
Jean-Yves

Aviller (3106) 2007-03-13 15:42

I like the depth of the field and the geometrical shapes. The lack of color (ie the few shades of white and light blue) make the shoot look quite "cool." Perhaps the building in the back could be even more blurry.

dvlazar (6488) 2007-03-16 2:16

You have an excellent eye Julia for these sort of creative photos which most people would simply miss. Well done!
Dave.

tibervince (781) 2007-03-21 1:15

Hi Julia,
This is the first time I visit your gallery... you have amazing pictures... an excellent sense of composition with colors and textures and an excellent work on finding the right depht of field. Outstanding work!
VIncent

waseemkhan (1070) 2007-04-13 8:18

Hi Julia,
I like those graphical lines which are crossing each other. An aesthetic work from you with a cold mood,,,,,
waseem khan

harras2000 (708) 2007-04-18 18:25

Hello Julia!
A fantastic shot of a detail of this building!
The urbanic flair of your picture is realy interesting.
I like such a kind of minimalistic photography.
I did such kind of shots many times mostly in 1998 when I just arrived in Frankfurt. After years of mostly "classical" pictures somewhere on a holiday in Asia I just started again photographic Safaris with the friend I was walking around in 1998 (that time mostly nighttime pictures, now we started experiments with colour Infrared slide film)

Many greetings from Germany,
Daniel

sevman13 (553) 2007-06-02 5:23

hi,
terrific angle there, with a fabulous photograph eye and POV.
ps: think of dropping by Turkey, on your way back home...
bon voyage.

Serdar

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