Stacked bricks

[cichlid]

I was out looking for rectangles for a little photography project.
I came across the below image in the backyard and felt it strong enough to share.
I am not yet convinced by the saturation of colors yet. Please feel free to play with it and your C&C is always welcome.



Thanks

[rtbaum]

It may sound a little wacked, but I think a vignette around the edges might kinda cool

[ggt]

Well, I don't think this is what you meant, but I played

Honestly, I think all the bricks need is lighting --with the "render" filter on Photoshop. It just makes them a bit more interesting and shows perspective. And a Frame, of course. Inverting them to blue got me going on a tangent as you can see, but doing so often gives an idea of where the lighting is off. Which is why I originally inverted then.

[cichlid]

Nice work Gretchen.

[rtbaum]

Nice work Gretchen.

This is way cool

[ggt]

Thanks everyone. I need to stop letting myself go off in these tangents. I really want to get better at actual photography. I love gridwork and repeating patterns, so the bricks were hard to resist. . . .

[MrB]

Erik, I enjoyed having a little play with your image, although the result can't match the "cool" of Gretchen's work! When I first saw the original, my reaction was - it's a pile of bricks. So after increasing contrast and saturation, I converted it to B&W using a cyan filter. OK, it had textures, but it was now a monochrome pile of bricks. So I created a black background, dropped the bricks on top, then applied extreme pincushion correction to distort it within its black border. This seems to make a more interesting image to me, but what do you think?



Philip

[ggt]

ooooh, Mr B! I think you did out-cool mine. Mine is more whimsical--kids stuff. Your's is some serious artwork!

[cichlid]

Hi Philip,

At first glance, it reminded me of a TV set (not an LCD model though) ;-)
One of my favorite reasons for visiting, contributing and participating here at CiC is the vision that others have on one persons image. I would have never of thought of doing what both you a Gretchen did.

Erik

[rpcrowe]

One of the things that I like about being able to converse with other photographers is to be able to get feedback on shots like this. I know my wife who is certainly not a photographer would say, "Did you photograph the bricks because there is something wrong with them?"

My feedback for this image is that I am not sure that I like the definite line going down the center of the image. I moved it over to the right 1/3 of the image (rule of thirds) and applied several different Photoshop Elements artistic filters...

[ggt]

M . u . s t r . e . s . i . s . t urge to follow another idea about the bricks. I am here to focus on photography, NOT photoshop.

It is ooooh, so hard, but I WILL keep the focus!

Ah, I have a new mantra: Keep the Focus!