Toronto skyscraper shot - Please comment!

[FocalSpeed]

http://www.chaudtight.com/mani/prev/16.jpg

From my last trip to Toronto.

Equipment used.

- Canon G2
- LA-DC58 Lens Adapter
- 58mm Tiffen Polarizer

Please comment.
Thanks.

:wink:

[Warman]

ARGH, its sideways!
LOL, well maybe being sideways gives it a special interest maybe it just makes people get motion sickness. I realy do think the later is correct one and ill explain why further on.

Anyway, i like the way you can see it as a lot of diferent things if you can abstract what it realy is. You can see a grid, you can see a wall, you can see a complex patter and you can see the problem...Stairs, it looks like stairs and because of the clockwise rotation it looks like stairs upside down. That is what make the shot confusing enough to give you a hint of motion sickness but then again, isnt it impressive that you were able to make a shot that can create that effect?
I can't decide, i love the way the tones go from brown to beije and the blue intermix and i have to apreciate what you were able to create. Put it right and you have a very nice shot, rotate it counter-cw and you have the same without the confusing effect but with the same level of complexity in a way everyone will like. If you want to have a controversial photo that some will say is genius and other will say is just horrible keep it as it is. :)

[Anders Östberg]

Great colors, but I think it might look better right-side-up. It's a cool building anyway, don't think it needs the 90 degree effect.

[FocalSpeed]

I rotated it.

Lets see what people say :)

Thanks for the comments so far

[Leighow]

It seems ot me to be a very nice shot .... if framed it would be suitable for office decor.

What I like best is the way the panels create a set of left to right converging diagonals. Now that is neat !

[Kell]

Most people look at images from left to right (reading direction), so the fact that the picture was "full" on the left side (the base of the building) and empty to the right (the sky) gave it a very odd look. At first it seemed like I was looking at a football stadium *grins*

The way you have it now makes all the difference. It's a nice shot, crystal clear all the way to the top, with vivid contrast. I like it now (vertically). :)

[jbridgman]

Great picture! I don't know how it could be improved any at all. :)

Jeremy

[1rushfan]

I disagree with your comment that most people read images left to right. I think that images dictate which way people read them, or at least you can create an image that dictates it.

[Kell]

Well, obviously if you take a picture whose main subject is to the right, people will look at it. But make a simple experience: take a shot of a jar, and place it on the right of the foto. Then take mirror the picture, and compare your reaction to it. You will probably see what I mean.

And yes, of course you can create an image that dictates the way people look at them. I didn't mean to say it as an universal truth. :)

[stopbath]

I like the lone chair in the image. Gives a size to it all. Good use of polarizer...

[timmyquest]

Tis a representation of mans hopeless, never ending grasp towards the heavens.

I like it.

[timmyquest]

Great picture! I don't know how it could be improved any at all. :)

Jeremy

at all

or a tall

a pun, perhaps?

:D