Just fooling around

[Cheryl Slechta]

I was downtown shooting last week and took this image of the side of a building. I liked the blue circle and wasn't aware of what it was until I went back to explore it again several days later. The blue circle had moved - it was the top of a recycling trash can Anyway, I liked the different shapes and colors. I added Topaz Adjust Color Boost and also a Selective Color adjustment layer in CC to add a little more saturation of the colors.

[Diane Miller]

Nice diagonal juxtaposition of the bin and the window. In many images the negative space between them could be too much, but it works here, for me, anyway. (I don't intellectualize on this stuff, so I have no idea why. I'm not a verbal person. I shoot first and ask questions later. Much later.)

[Nancy Bell]

Love the emphasis on the lines in this and the bright red vs. blues! Perfect having that blue square on the bottom right repeating the blue squares of the windows! I don't know how you pick out these cool images among all the chaos out there.

[Judy Howle]

I also love the bright blue and red colors and the shapes of the windows and recycle bin helped to create a very interesting composition.

[Michael Gerald-Yamasaki]

Cheryl,

Greetings. The circle surrounded in blue is just perfect. It's good to fool around. ;-)

Thanks for posting.

Cheers,

-Michael-

[Cheryl Slechta]

I'm good at it :) (Fooling around)

Cheryl,

Greetings. The circle surrounded in blue is just perfect. It's good to fool around. ;-)

Thanks for posting.

Cheers,

-Michael-

[Jackie Schuknecht]

I really like this Cheryl. Cryptic and appealing. It make your eye wander around the image. I like the other window coming through in the window at the top. Well composed.

[Hazel Grant]

"One man's trash is another man's treasure" as they say...here you have seen the beauty even of a trash can top and made it a very modern piece of art. Colors, positioning...you had the eye....great job.

[Wendy Kates]

Really interesting composition, Cheryl, and I love the bold colors!

[Paul Lagasi]

Very nice lines and colors on this creation, never would have thought it was a trash can...keep them coming.

[Cheryl Slechta]

Thanks everyone for commenting.

[Arthur Morris]

While I love the colors and the details something about the overall image design leaves me feeling uneasy. In part it is all of the red and in part the fact that I do not do well with stuff cut off by the frame edge. Both of those however combine to add lots of tension to the image.

[Dennis Bishop]

There is a number of things that makes this work, I think. It's very close to being a primary color triad, and that's always striking. (The orange in the windows instead of yellow makes it not quite a triad, and there's a special name for that, but I can't remember it. Anyway, it's effective.) As has already been mentioned, the window and container make a virtual diagonal, and the vertical siding lines contrast nicely with that. The spanking new container also contrasts well with the age of the building.

[Hazel Grant]

Perhaps Artie has a problem because this has no bird in it???? :-)

[Dennis Bishop]

Perhaps Artie has a problem because this has no bird in it???? :-)

If Cheryl likes to fool around, I wonder if there's more here than we know. Perhaps there was a bird perching on the top of the window and several foraging on the ground. That could be why she cut those parts off.

[Arthur Morris]

Perhaps Artie has a problem because this has no bird in it???? :-)

Nope :)

[Hazel Grant]

Dennis, could be....she is quite creative

[Cheryl Slechta]

No birds :) I was looking at a book of Saul Leiter prints last night (I love him - there's a documentary In No Great Hurry on YouTube that I recommend) and there's an image of a street in NYC in the snow - very monochromatic entitled Red Umbrella. Most of the image is a street with tire tracks and in the upper corner is one half of a red umbrella and part of a skirt walking out of the frame. LOTs of tension I think it's so interesting to go back and look at some of the iconic photographers - black and whites in the 20's and 30's and color images as well from the 50-60's. Leiter and others did portraits and fashion work as well as their other work but it is their street photography that I find so compelling.

[Anita Bower]

Love it! Bright, primary colors. Basic shapes. Good composition. Interesting textures. I like those areas that are cut off!

[Hazel Grant]

yes, I have said several times that if I could choose, I'd be a street photographer (assuming, of course, within that choosing is the assumption of possible talent, but who knows) :) I am fascinated by some of the iconic classical street photographers and the tensions they create just because they can "see" instantaneously and capture that seeing.

[Saurabh Singh]

Cheryl

Liked the composition and PP of this Image :)
Blue portion pops out the vibrant red and makes it quite an abstract .

Regards
Saurabh Singh