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"walls of the city" logo conceptualized by Oleg Volk and executed by Linoge. Logo is © "walls of the city".
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and it will stay there - (closed) | 2135 06Apr11 | written by Linoge
No daily photography today… too busy setting this up, taking it, and editing it. Certainly not Oleg Volk quality, but I like it…
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It may not be Oleg Volk quality, but it certainly looks pretty close to me (not that I’m anywhere near his level either, so take that for what it’s worth). Keep it up!
Looking at it, the only suggestion I might make would be to change the framing a little – shift the frame up and left (or the gun and surface down and right) a hair so it’s not quite so close to the middle (keeping to the rule of thirds) and so the text doesn’t run up against the stripper clip. But that might not work, either – it’s one of those things you really have to see both ways to be sure.
One thing I learned when I took my photography classes is that you can take a dozen or more shots to get just one that’s actually right. Even digitally, it can take several pictures to get one that’s good enough to finish in photoshop (or GIMP).
The more I see people doing stuff like this, the more I wish I could afford to invest in a decent digital SLR. My 10+ year-old consumer-level digital just doesn’t cut it anymore – I can almost get better images from my cell phone camera – and while my film camera isn’t bad, developing is chancy at best since I don’t have access to a darkroom anymore to do it myself.
No worries – there are another twenty-odd shots that you did not see, which were necessary to get it to this point. After that half-an-hour investment, I decided to call it a day, and figure if I could make anything of what I had. It works… not perfectly, but it works, and the engineer in me is happy with that
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Might try it again later, and see if I can improve the actual staging – that probably affected the text and placement more than the framing, though I always seem to forget to frame bigger than I want and trim it down afterwards.
As for DSLRs, if you have a point-and-shoot Canon, they have a pretty decent trade-in/up program for refurbed units… you basically get a used copy of last year’s model for probably less than half of what it used to retail. That is how I procured mine, and apart from having to send the whole kit back to unscrew the focusing in the lens, it was not a bad deal.
I am quite fond of this picture/quote combination. Mind if I modify the dimensions a little so I can use it as a widescreen desktop background?
So long as you keep/repeat the copyright in the lower left, I do not mind at all. Conversely, if you tell me the dimensions/ratio you are looking for, I might get around to it later today.
@ Linoge:
Alright thanks, I already got it modified. Need to check that the copyright didn’t get chopped off in the process of resizing it to 1440×900, not that anyone else will ever see it
Woah. Really widescreen.
If it is never going to leave your computer, do not worry about the copyright… But if you end up wanting to share it, just add it back in
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