Artistically inventive and photographically brilliant.

I sill wonder (and you didn't answer it in my previous post) how you manage to get that much blur so close ?

the last bit of metal is already blurred and you're only @ 55mm F/4 ???

very curious indeed :p

I know exactly what you mean. One photo each day is our main goal but that's not always possible. What matters is that we don't give up and don't stop trying. Best of luck in your "Shoot a Picture a Day" project for Digital SLR User. :-)

Alexandre: my apologies for missing your question last time. There isn't any mystery to the blur though, it's just that shooting at this distance (a couple of feet from this structure) and with an aperture of f/4 the DoF is reasonably shallow.

nferreira: I agree.

Dave, Dave, Dave, thought you'd been eaten. I love this shot for lots of reasons. 1. Its definately Chromasia. 2. The post-production work is subtle, yet incredibly effective. 3. The image is poetic, almost musical like (and this was the first thing I read into it) , and I just want to clang those metal bars with a sledge hammer.
Congrats on the magazine article , off out tommorow to buy a copy.... Of course you'll mention all YOUR favourite sites in future issues eh!!! ;-) ....Craig

I took a similar image the other week with the same lens but yours has way more detail. I guess thats the difference between full frame and 1.6x, if I were to guess. Lovely image, and a great article too. I picked it up on Saturday.

Very other worldly.

Pete: part of it is to do with the fact that it's an HDR image - which accentuates the fine detail, particularly in the shadow areas - but it might also be something to do with the sharpening.

And I'm glad you enjoyed the article - I enjoyed writing it.

It looks like a modern art installation, particularly with your post-processing. It's so serene and balanced.

magic image - really unusual - superb

Wooooow! A kind of "Industrial Zen" :)

Wow it's gorgeous. I love the detail, and the kinda blurred background. The reflection in the water. It's perfect.

No problem djn1, may it be the fact that you use a full frame sensor and me a 1.6, i mean would that make DOF more shallow for you at the same distance with the same lens and settings than for me ? dont think so but I may be wrong

you said you created this from a single image but the tutorial on their site always seem to use 3 images. did you just make 3 different exposures with the same image, then save them as separate images then merge them in the program? love this by the way :)

Alexandre: no, the full-frame sensor shouldn't make any difference; i.e. if I cropped this to the same extent as if I'd shot it with a 1.6 crop sensor then the DoF would be exactly the same.

Brooks: there's a 'single file conversion' option that will allow you to automatically tone-map an image or generate a 32bit HDR file. I use the latter option then re-open it in Photomatix to tone-map it.

Brilliant (for an HDR !! ) Loved the portrait tutorial - who says you can't teach an old dog new tricks ;-)

:-)

Congratulations on the writing gig. That is really neat and I can't think of a better ambassador for photoblogging.

The scale of the metal piles is totally disorienting. My head spins. I see these things as huge, though I know they're not.
I'm glad you're back to a true chromasia spirit.
Z

Nice shot. Gives the impressions of a sky scraper

What a great HDR ,not generally a massive fan of this technique...a lot of HDR's look freaky to my eyes. This however I love.

I agree with the previous poster about the sense of scale, they look monolithic in size. I also like the way they glow and their redness in contrast to the the muted green hues of the sky and water.

You do find these things, don't you ;-)... it really does look like an art installation, beautifully captured! Great light for 2.50pm. Congrats on the article, will look out for it in the land downunder.

Bonjour,
Well done treatment..Great composition..Bravo!

I can't believe I'm the first one to say that this reminds me of AT&T's "More bars in more places" ad campaign. Maybe there aren't many Americans commenting here?

Congratz! Nice to see you writing in that magazine, and above al: this is a stunning image.

So this short lived piece of accidental 21st Century sculpture will soon to be drowned in concrete ... Amen. richard

I really love this picture. I wish I could one day be able to shoot such one...

I have nothing to say.
Your photos are just great. I'm tired of saying "awesome, great, good colors, etc".
Congrats!

Thanks everyone, I was really pleased with this one too.

Craig: thanks, and let me know what you think of the article.

laanba: thank you :-)

Anthony: I haven't seen the ads. Are they on the web?

Dave: yes, here's one. There are a bunch of different variations of that commercial, with the AT&T/Cingular bars appearing everywhere.

Anthony: thanks, and I can see what you mean.

Classic Chromasia. Thanks for this one.

Pure art!

I think I already left a comment on this but this is one of those Chromasia defining photo's so It's definitely worth a few words. It's been a while since we've had something of this calibre up. Fantastic

I have lurked this site for years, but I just have to say how much I love this photo. I really like all the angles and the pillars reversing position as they decline into the background. So very cool. Did you just walk up to them and see the picture, or did you have to walk around until you find the right composition?

I like the surreal quality you put in this picture.