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People things, part II

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I still think the lack of people things comments are unwarranted, but here is an experiment I’ve done. I’ve taken photos already posted here, cropped the rest of the photo out and picked selected people in the photos and altered them. The sepia hides how grainy the photos are. These are not, repeat not, finished work. I just wanted to see what these people looked like close up and in their natural state, unposed and unaware they were being photographed.

Here goes with the results. Again, just throwing a couple of ideas out there. As with other photos on this thing, you gotta click on them for the full effect.

Weird and grainy I know, but there was something sort of scary about the guy’s expression:

I liked the old tyme feel of this one:

Completely, I repeat completely on the fence with this one. Half of me said “eh, boring portrait, but the other half said “something here intrigues me:

Ok, yeah, pixilated and totally weird looking, but this girl looks kind of ethereal to me:

This one also had a very strangely ethereal quality to me. I kept it in color because what was already there was very interesting:

Last, but not least, this that gave me the initial idea for this whole thing:

I know these are not the world’s best portraits, but I’m taking a stab at something a little bit different.

Remulak?

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Remulak, a small town in France. Ah, the Coneheads, a personal favorite sketch from Saturday Night Live for good reason.

Because to return to the conehead’s home planet of Remulak, the coneheads had to use the Chrysler Building as their return vehicle.

Fortunate for us, the coneheads never came to get the sublime Chrysler Building and thank god, because it is a beautiful building. And, as most beautiful things, really freakin’ hard to photograph. Really hard.

Sure, I could take photographs like this one:

But these never look the way I want them to. The building is glinting off in the distance, but on film, it just doesn’t come across. It probably has to do with the limitations of the digital camera. Of course it also has to do with the limitations of my day, as I can’t stand there for an hour figuring out how to position the camera. My hands also shake like crazy, making taking these photographs all the more difficult.

However, I’ve always thought that the shots of the Chrysler building were amazing and the best thing to capture is the sun bursts on the top. The thing is 77 floors high and I haven’t mastered levitation yet, so I stand, trying to get the sun bursts with my beautiful zoom lens on the digital. Those things usually can zoom in pretty well but in the image window, what you want to photograph is totally blurry.

So, here are the results of all of that. And also, keep in mind that I tried to match the vertical lines of the building with the sides of image that the camera made. Just that slightest shift took the photo from blah to something that I hope looks that it is on its way to being semi-artistic.

Let’s have a look see:
(you have to click on the photos to get the full effect).

See anything you like?