Superman's dressing room

[Val1064]

This phone booth is located on the roof of our fire station, as far as I know this has been there since the mid 50's (maybe even earlier than that). It still has a working rotary phone inside. My son spotted it yesterday and said hey mom look it is Superman's dressing room. Tell me what I can do to improve this shot.

[avytech]

I tend to be a weird photographer. Having that said, I'd try to show more of the building by pushing the phone booth a little more to the left. I'm not sure if you can, but if you could blur the building and focus on the booth, that'd be nice. It may take post processing though (which would be less nifty for the ego).

It's insanely cool that it's even up there though!

[Val1064]

Originally Posted by avytech

I tend to be a weird photographer. Having that said, I'd try to show more of the building by pushing the phone booth a little more to the left. I'm not sure if you can, but if you could blur the building and focus on the booth, that'd be nice. It may take post processing though (which would be less nifty for the ego).

It's insanely cool that it's even up there though!

I have a few other photos of this if you want to check them out I will give you the link to them. Post processing has been my buddy for a while since I just can't seem to get the effects I want with a point and shoot camera.

[Particles Of Light]

oh my gosh!, I have to give you credit for that one!

[waffles]

This one causes problems for me. My thinking about it, not your taking it.

I'm thinking that the phone booth should be bigger so that it's more of a focus, but I don't see how you can do that without making it harder to tell where it is.

One thing that I do think would help would be some clouds in the background.

[aadam_21]

Great catching title!

I agree with waffles that it seems like the booth should be a little bigger, but without losing the perspective of where it is (which is what makes this really interesting). The only thing I can think of would be to shoot (or crop) this in portrait orientation. This way you can maintain the roof below and to the right while still getting much closer to the phone booth. It would also eliminate the distracting bit of tree branch on the left.

I think the two lines (power?) should be cloned out as well and it may be a good idea to try and reshoot this at a different time of day. The sky looks good, but the angle and intensity of the sunlight is giving harsh shadow and reflecting really strongly off of the booth. Just looking at the shadow, this looks like it may have been taken sometime in the middle of the day. Early morning, or evening may give you a little better light.

This is a really interesting subject - I've never seen a phone booth on a roof!

[Val1064]

Thanks! Adam I am going back to try again this evening maybe closer to dusk to see if I can get less of the shadows. I am also going to see about getting different angles to see if can focus more on the booth.

[aadam_21]

Great! I look forward to seeing what you get! I must admit, I'm envious over not having (or knowing) of anything quite this unusually interesting close by.

[Val1064]

Here is one from about the same view point as the one I had posted.

[aadam_21]

Much better! I think that just about everything in the second shot is better than in the first. Closer focus, no distracting shadows, good even lighting. My only concern is the solid white sky. I'm guessing it was overcast when this was shot? The blue sky in the first shot would complete this and make it darn near perfect. Very nice reshoot, though - good job!