[Redroom Studios]

All of my own pictures... hosted on Flickr

Davisville Station...

Skyline from The Docks

From Front and Simcoe...

Gardiner Westbound...

Front St. East...

From roof of parking garage in Kensington Market...

City Hall

FCP

Sunset from the tracks...

 

[Hypnotoad]

Fantastic stuff man. Great job.

 

[Urban Shocker]

Have you seen the Miklos Gaal photos at Artcore in the Distillery District yet Redroom? When you first see them it looks like Gaal shoots small toys and models that he's posed in different ways and then blows them up in size. In fact, he manipulates the film in an analogue camera to create effects that are blurry in some areas and sharp in others - images of real street scenes, construction sites, parks etc. The results are quite surreal and rather unsettling. Even when you know they're large landscapes you still question whether or not they're small models.

I think the state of limbo he creates is what draws you into them, more than if they were straightforward photographs, or predictably and conventionally manipulated photoshop effects - and makes you look closely at reality and question it.

 

[interchange42]

Totally kewl. Welcome to the Forum Redroom!

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[Redroom Studios]

thanks all for the nice welcome... I have been following this forum on and off for around 5 years... found myself with lots of extra time now, so decided to join. Also, I am frequently baffled by the shortage of Toronto pics on here, so hopefully I can be a contribute images on a regular basis...

Urban Shocker - no, i have not seen that particular gallery in The Distillery, but I do know the photographic technique you are describing. It's called tilt-shift effect and you are right about how perfectly it fools your eyes into thinking you are looking at a miniature model. Never tried it myself, but there are some great examples here: http://www.flickr.com/search/?q=tilt shift&w=all&s=int

 

[Urban Shocker]

I think your experimental images on flickr have more energy, at the moment, than the fairly straight skyscraper geek streetscapes - which are, of necessity, only slightly tweaked - that you're posting here. With them, you've taken saturated colour and abstract shapes as far as you want. It might make a nice change of pace to experiment with subtlety, a monochromatic palette, and less contrast once in a while, too - and dare to edit with your eye rather than with the computer.

 

[Observer Walt]

Welcome to the forum Redroom. You have provided something quite different, and fascinating. Thank you.

 

[flar]

I like #1, and city hall and the train tracks at the end. A couple of them look like paintings.

I saw some howto's on the internet for the tilt-shift effect and even made a half assed attempt at it once. It's hard to make it look good.

 

[Redroom Studios]

ya, now I'm thinking of giving it a try... likely too lazy though to learn!

 

[BobBob]

What sort of processing did you do on these? Is that some kind of solarize effect, or HDR, or... ?

 

[Tewder]

Great pics, thanks for the eye-candy!!

 

[Redroom Studios]

thanks!

BobBob, yes - most of them are a simulated HDR using a high pass filter in Photoshop. I usually go for a high contrast, high saturation look. Some also have the Orton effect applied, it combines a blurred layer over top of a sharp layer (basically)

Here's some more...

Yonge and Eglinton

Streetcar - King and Church Streets

Yonge and Dundas

1 King West and Scotia Plaza

View from Richmond St. ramp... (this one is a few years old)

 

[JasonParis]

thanks all for the nice welcome... I have been following this forum on and off for around 5 years... found myself with lots of extra time now, so decided to join. Also, I am frequently baffled by the shortage of Toronto pics on here, so hopefully I can be a contribute images on a regular basis...

Great stuff and welcome aboard! We are certainly always looking to augment the amount of Toronto pictures on here, whether they be standard or more arty. It's all good!

 

[Long Island Mike]

Neat TORONTO pics!

RS: This is a neat and colorful variation of Toronto pics! I never get tired of'em! LI MIKE

 

[yin_yang]

wow, incredible! the coke ad one is my favourite