© 2010 Greg McMullin Day 41- The Beauty In Concrete

Day 41: The Beauty In Concrete


Have I ever mentioned how much of a fan of brual modernist architecture I am? No? Well I have now. This pic is of one of my favourite bits of concrete Sheffield. Its the bottom of the ramp that leads to the Atkinson’s car park. There are a number of interesting angles on this ramp and I will be posting some more of them in the future. I dont know why I like concrete so much in many ways it can be a blot on the landscape but sometimes it can just be beautiful. This pic was processed only in lightroom its not a HDR but it kind of looks like it. I boosted the black levels in the image and this began to bring out some amazing tones. A little tweak of the saturation and vibrancy and the tones were there in full effect. I hope you like this one as much as I do. Oh wow! I just looked out the window and we have a blizzard! Damn, I have to go to work in that!

Manual Page Read: Pages 9-11 – Table of contents. (Yes I have decided to start at the begining, the scattershot approach was getting sketchy).

Images Viewed: Added a new blog to my RSS reader. BEGINBEING. Which describes itself as “curated inspiration”. Could be interesting!

Other Inspiration: Met with my project supervisor today who helped steer me further down the path to getting my dissertation done. I need to start planning experiments now. It’s getting scary.

Day 41- The Beauty In Concrete-SOOCSOOC

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  1. .avina.
    Posted February 10, 2010 at 3:55 AM | #

    Project 365 Day 41: The Beauty In ConcreteI’ve also noticed that concrete has a lot of blue in it if you let it. I like the blue and the rust colors. This looks awesome. The gritty details and the colors give good definition to all of the angles and edges.

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  2. .:shk:.
    Posted February 10, 2010 at 10:52 AM | #

    Project 365 Day 41: The Beauty In ConcreteNice capture Greg. The pp image and original capture looks so different. The clarity and vibrancy adds characteristics and depth. It’s fantastic.

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  3. greg.mcmull.in
    Posted February 10, 2010 at 11:54 AM | #

    Project 365 Day 41: The Beauty In ConcreteCheers for the comments guys. I really like how this one turned out. There is so much texture in the most mudane things sometimes.

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  4. Greg McMullin
    Posted February 10, 2010 at 12:59 PM | #

    Project 365 Day 41: The Beauty In ConcreteSOOC

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  5. greg.mcmull.in
    Posted February 11, 2010 at 2:18 AM | #

    Project 365 Day 41: The Beauty In ConcreteThanks guys.

    –
    Seen on your photo stream. (?)

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  6. ptwiz1
    Posted February 11, 2010 at 2:23 AM | #

    Project 365 Day 41: The Beauty In ConcreteGreat work! Same car park that you shot the outside of a few weeks ago?

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  7. greg.mcmull.in
    Posted February 11, 2010 at 2:59 AM | #

    Project 365 Day 41: The Beauty In Concrete ptwiz1 No. Its a different one. This is OLD! Whereas the other one is prett much brand new and difficult to get inside.

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  8. pritoodi (Pretty)
    Posted February 11, 2010 at 3:33 AM | #

    Project 365 Day 41: The Beauty In ConcreteYou can really the see the variety of colors from grays to browns all in one shot. Really nice angles – I like how you see a "picture" in random places. It’s easier for me to take pictures that are framed and in a box =) I need to get out more lol

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  9. Techy Girl
    Posted February 11, 2010 at 5:11 AM | #

    Project 365 Day 41: The Beauty In ConcreteThis is really nice! I love using Lightroom for shots like these to bring out the texture! It’s amazing how different the two shots look. Great work!!

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  10. Julien Denoyer
    Posted February 11, 2010 at 9:55 AM | #

    Project 365 Day 41: The Beauty In ConcreteGood luck with the blizzard and nice photo processing…really does bring out a lot!

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  11. eah2009
    Posted February 11, 2010 at 11:04 AM | #

    Project 365 Day 41: The Beauty In Concretenow there’s texture!!

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  12. tiz_m
    Posted February 13, 2010 at 2:05 AM | #

    Project 365 Day 41: The Beauty In ConcreteBeautiful! Your crop is perfect!

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  13. RobLee.info
    Posted February 13, 2010 at 9:12 AM | #

    Project 365 Day 41: The Beauty In ConcreteYeah, you’ve revealed some deeply hidden beauty there

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  1. By Greg 365 » Day 64: More Beauty In Concrete on March 5, 2010 at 5:16 PM

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  2. By Cool Beauty images on February 12, 2011 at 11:58 PM

    [...] still think I don’t, given the subject matter and the treatment I have done on it. Remember Day 41? Well I found myself passing that spot again and I couldn’t help but take another [...]

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