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Surry Hills Police Station

Postby ajo43 on Tue Feb 08, 2005 10:31 pm

Some pics from the weekend.

I was trying to capture how foreboding this place looks. Did I manage?

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Postby stubbsy on Tue Feb 08, 2005 10:35 pm

Jonesy

While I find the shots appealing I don't get the foreboding. I think they're a little too pretty. My suggestion is to try changing the sky to make it greyer in PP (like thunderstorm sky) and maybe make the images a little less bright.
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Postby ajo43 on Tue Feb 08, 2005 11:05 pm

Stubbsy, thanks for the comment.

Maybe a bit more like this?

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Postby stubbsy on Wed Feb 09, 2005 10:02 am

ajo43 wrote:Maybe a bit more like this?

Exactly. Well done. Now that's foreboding :shock:
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Postby sirhc55 on Wed Feb 09, 2005 10:20 am

All you need now is the shadow of a gallows on the wall and you would have a pic to put fear into everyone :wink: BTW I like
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Postby Glen on Wed Feb 09, 2005 12:00 pm

Hi Jonesy, when I saw the title I thought you were going to show us from the inside :wink: Maybe caught photographing in a Westfields?

You have captured the foreboding quite well, especially the last with fence, but for real foreboding I would chop out and change the sky in photochop, or do what I do since I no zip about PS, go back on a day when you have a black and angry sky. Now that on the last shot would be foreboding.
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Postby stubbsy on Wed Feb 09, 2005 12:16 pm

Glen wrote:for real foreboding I would chop out and change the sky in photochop

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I'm guessing you missed the sample above where this change has been done :wink:
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Postby Glen on Wed Feb 09, 2005 12:54 pm

No Stubbsy, I mean Foreboding with capitol F. No namby pamby windows 98 clouds in the background, just big black ones, which look like (as someone has here on there sig line) an angry old man sending soup back at a deli :wink:
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Postby stubbsy on Wed Feb 09, 2005 1:38 pm

Glen wrote:No Stubbsy, I mean Foreboding with capitol F. No namby pamby windows 98 clouds in the background, just big black ones, which look like (as someone has here on there sig line) an angry old man sending soup back at a deli :wink:

Ahh. that F word.
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