A Few Snapshots From DC

[ase]

It's amazing how many pictures you can take, thinking, "oh, this is going to look so cool!" only to discover that the actual snapshot is somewhere between pretentious and incomprehensible. Discussions of photographs as narratives make lots of sense when you're trying to use a shot to show, say, the spacious, empty feeling of the National Gallery's east building.

Some of them, however, came out sort of nice. After much abuse of several pictures in Photoshop, at least. Three 640x480 shots behind the cut. Dial-up people, yell if this is a problem. I have no sense of proportion or other's people's interest/tolerance.


L'Enfant Metro Station at rush hour. They run trains close together when the commuters are flooding the city or rushing home; the bright light in the left-hand tunnel is an inbound train. (Resizing, sharpening, brightness and contrast)


The Castle has some spiffy gardens. And I go for the neat-looking raindrops. (Cropping, resizing, levels)


The underground walkway between the National Gallery's west and east buildings, as seen from the east. (Resizing, cropping, saturation, and color fill)

Comments

[hornedhopper.livejournal.com]

I really liked the subway trains shot. Artistic, indeed!

[ase.livejournal.com]

Thanks! I've wanted to take that picture for a while, and kept missing it until I staked out a spot at the station for about 20 minutes, very self-consciously loitering. I'm glad it came out decently.