Architecture shot from the University of Maryland, College Park. I had the opportunity to return to Maryland for a quick trip this weekend and walked around the campus, albeit briefly. I had forgotten how much brick is used in all of the architecture there.
Tag: architecture
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As promised, two for today.The building where my daughter takes ballet is one of those old repurposed brick warehouse buildings that you find all over Worcester. It’s got some great brick work, and has all the issues you’d expect an old brick warehouse to have (leaks, drafts, etc).
I snapped the entrance to the building, which is up a short flight of stone steps and into an alcove of sorts, embedded in which is a large heavy wooden door. One of the things that really caught my eye was the use of stone at the top of the columns before the brick continued up into the arches.
I toned down the colors uses the Formulas app to give it a muted, vintage feel.
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One of the camera apps I really like is Provoke. Provoke was created in collaboration with Glyn Evans, one of the founders of iPhoneography. It was meant to evoke the black and white Japanese photographers of the 1960s. It takes incredibly interesting pictures, with lots of contrast, shadows, and grain.
Provoke recently got an upgrade that included a couple of color films. There wasn’t much description as to the inspiration behind these color film options, but presumably they are also inspired by vintage films. The picture above is a sample of what one of the new color films looks like.
The building is the backside of the church that stands in the center of my town. The light hits it in that “just right” way in the afternoon. I snapped this with Provoke and applied no post-processing. WYSIWYG.
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My town has, of all things, a dairy. Model Dairy operates out of Main Street. I’ve lived in my town for fifteen years, and I still know next to nothing about this dairy. Their website is a Facebook page. They have a truck that roams around town that looks like it dates back to when Ike was president, and smells even older. They have a building that is down the street from me, yet I never see anyone coming or going. I’m sure this dairy is fully functional, but it must be a word of mouth kind of thing.This morning, after dropping my daughter off at school, I noticed that the morning light was hitting this mystery building in a way that begged to be photographed. I pulled over, pulled out my phone, and started snapping. One of the results is above.
I played around with this one in Enlight. I’m still getting to know Enlight, to figure out all of its tips and tricks. One of the things it offers that some of the other photo-editing apps don’t is the use of curves. Using curves is essentially just picking a spot on a curve, overlaid on top of the photo, and dragging it this way or that to change the color within the part of the photo the curve falls. Think of curves as a way to alter the hue and saturation of a part of the photo only, and not the entire photo. Using the curves, I was able to enrich the warm color hitting the upper part of the picture, and cool down the lower part of the picture with the snow.
I think the result is okay. It’s not the best picture or post-processing I’ve ever done, but it’s still interesting enough (to me, at least) to post.
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Last fall I took a drawing class at the Worcester Art Museum. It was great, though tiring at times, given that it was three hours on Monday nights. One of the lessons was dedicated to perspective, which might have been my favorite.Since then, I’ve been conscious of seeing perspectives when I take pictures.
I pass this building often when out for a walk at work. It’s just a parking lot, but, like most buildings, it has corners that come together which provides an interesting perspective, especially when you’re standing up close to it. I also liked how the sun was hitting one side of one of those corners as I passed today.
Shot with the native camera app, cropped and centered in Snapseed, and converted to black and white using Black Cam.
Scott Lyerly 