World's Biggest Ketchup Bottle

[gtemple1]

Unaltered photograph, please let me know what I did right or wrong. I can use all the help I can get.

[Sime]

Hi, you'd need one BIG pie for that sucker!... I'd suggest cropping up a little form the bottom to remove that shed roof (?) And maybe off centering the bottle to add a little more dynamics to the image. perhaps a touch of contrast...

Sauce-Tastic!

[Peach]

Sime, you put ketchup on pie??

I'd do what Sime said, but I'd also try to darken that one slightly over exposed board. Either by replacing it with one next to it (select, copy, paste) or by using the burn tool in photoshop (or similar tool in other programs). Maybe adjust the levels, play with the contrast and curves a bit to come up with a more dynamic picture as it seems a trifle 'flat' at the moment.

Other than that - that's one big bottle of "catsup" (never understood why some people spell it like that).

[naqs]

hey thats pretty cool... where abouts in the world is that?

We have a few icons like that here in NZ the L&P bottle, Carrot, Kiwi Fruit, Salmon can't remember the others

[gtemple1]

Sime,

Thanks, this kind of feed-back is why I posted it as shot.

[gtemple1]

Peach,

I agree, it needs some touching up. see my reply to Sime. By the way, check out your supermarket, I'm sure you'll find both Ketchup and Catsup on the shelves in BC.

[gtemple1]

Naqs,

The Mid-west in the States has some pretty bazzare water-towers, 8-ball, coffee pot, tea kettle, you name it. This one's in a small town called Collinsville, Illinois. It's about 20 miles east of St. Louis.

[teinee]

Funny, I used to live not too far from this, and I go back up there to visit all the time. I never thought to take a picture of this. One of those 'don't shoot what's in your backyard' situations. I like the red bottle against the darker blue sky. And I too would look at cropping for different placement.

[TheEagleSpirit]

The ketchup is located in Collinsville, Illinois where I lived most of my life and retired from Granite City Steel not far from there before moving to Indiana. The shed roof someone wanted cropped out is part of the Brooks Ketchup ware house and cannery. In it's hey day the plant canned not only ketchup but pork and beans and barbecue sauce etc. There is a bluff located next to the bottle that is straight up and down where there has been fools trying to climb on motorcycles but failed. Also if you were to follow the driveway to the back road and turn left you would come to the old Collinsville Railroad station. The Pennsylvania Railroad ran through there when there was still passenger trains also known to have been held up by Jesse James and his gang. Back in Prohibition Canteen Creek near by was used for bootlegging booze. Hobos still use the woods for camping at times.

[EngagePhoto]

I liked the photo. I looks pretty cool.