Dancing Houses Amsterdam

Gallery: POP PhotosPosted December 10, 2015508 views5 comments

Many years ago I spent a weekend at Amsterdam / The Netherlands with my wife and I have had also a lot of fun photographing what people like to call the "dancing houses" ( in Dutch "grachtenhuizen" ) along the several canals that are in the city. The typical construction is a very narrow front and very tall because lots always have been very expensive there and not really build perpendicular which leads to a lot of slightly tilded houses, the "dancing house" enlightened

While there are a lot of images of these icons of Amsterdam I tought that I make something diffrent ...

Contax RTS III, Carl Zeiss Planar 1.4/50, F8, 1/125s, handheld

Scanned with NIKON Coolscan 5000ED, Photoshop curves, slight perspective correction, sharpening resizing

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5 comments

Comment posted by Paul Breitkreuz on December 11, 2015 at 8:56 AM

Cay-Uwe, this is a wonderful idea and a twist on perspective. I like it very much. The symmetry and overall placement and or crop is excellent and makes the focus front and center here. I would only clone out the small bit of white material 1/3 of the way up on the left edge there near the window frame. I think that is a slight eye draw, but overall a really nice photograph.... laugh

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Comment posted by Patrick O'Healy on December 12, 2015 at 12:28 PM

Cay-Uwe,
This is a different take on an architectural photo. Very creative.

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Comment posted by Vance Gese on December 19, 2015 at 1:45 AM

Fantastic image, Cay-Uwe. The reflection framed by this window works so very well in my opinion, and I love that warm light gracing the buildings and the lovely silhouette of the tree branches. Excellent seeing that has resulted in a remarkable image.

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Comment posted by Cay-Uwe Kulzer on December 20, 2015 at 3:49 AM

I have decided to clone away the dirt as proposed by Paul, now that the image has been selected for the "Editor's Pick" enlightened

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Comment posted by Paul Breitkreuz on December 21, 2015 at 10:29 AM

Cay-Uwe, congratulations on this fine image being selected for the WP in this gallery...even better with the spot touched up too.... sad

Registered on February 25, 2006, 525 Posts, 8448 Comments