The dark heart of Osaka

[Malto]

I took a walk with a mate into less-known and less-safe areas of Osaka's big Babilonia and tried for the first time to shoot only monochrome... I'd like to have your comments and critiques on this work :) THANKS!!!

1.
Train tracks in Ebisucho
http://img139.imageshack.us/img139/6113/080316osakaurbanexploralc8.jpg

2.
An old cemetery in Namba, central Osaka
http://img166.imageshack.us/img166/9257/080316osakaurbanexploraeg2.jpg

3.
Electric line and barbed wire in Nakatsu
http://img215.imageshack.us/img215/3889/080316osakaurbanexploraai3.jpg

4.
Yodogawa south bank
http://img98.imageshack.us/img98/9836/080316osakaurbanexplorazl5.jpg

[61ache]

Number 3 is great. Do you mind if I try something in pp?

[Malto]

of course not! Please do :D I hope you can teach me how to improve... I'm basically at zero level with pp :D

[AndreaV]

My favourites are #3 and #4 .. but #4 is a little bit better IMHO.. I would only like to see something more (or nothing) of the elecrtirc pylon on the left :D The #3 is great but maybe you could go a little closer or zoom .. but maybe was impossible :D #1 has a great composition but too light (a little bit of distorsion that maybe could be fixed in pp), #2 maybe was better with a lower point of view.. if possible :D anyway great pictures !

[61ache]

I'm no expert but here's my edit. All I did was duplicate the image as a new layer and selected it as a dodge layer--really simple dodge

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[Malto]

Oooh...great!! In this way it has bigger impact IMHO :D thanks for your work and nice advice!!!

[Robert165]

i like number 2 the best
3 is good too but 2 has a more human feel
more appealing

[Robert165]

on number 1, i dont know if the part hanging there at the top helps or hurts
the piece that makes a --- v --- or a --- y ---
i dont shoot many strait on pictures, i like angels

number 2, i told you i liked

number 3, technicaly and in terms of composition
is defninetly the best

number 4, i like the way the road curves out of the picture

[61ache]

Oooh...great!! In this way it has bigger impact IMHO :D thanks for your work and nice advice!!!

Not sure how much advice I gave, but I just really liked the picture and wanted to play with it. Keep shooting, there's some good stuff in there.

[msurdin]

Number 3 is very interesting ....

[Malto]

Some few more, this time with more people inside :)

5.
Generational clash in Den-Den town
http://img255.imageshack.us/img255/6900/080316osakaurbanexploragg7.jpg

6.
Den-Den town, less popular area
http://img208.imageshack.us/img208/544/080316osakaurbanexploramm4.jpg

7.
On the Yodogawa river
http://img247.imageshack.us/img247/7342/080316osakaurbanexploraih3.jpg

[ngorkngork]

number 3, I just love the wires, lots of wires there. But everything has it's own feeling. Good job.

[Malto]

Thanks so much :D I'm planning to go there to shoot more next Sunday :)