"The Road to Mortimer"

[prabbit237]

This was one of the pictures I took on a trip to Mortimer, NC.

To give a little history, Mortimer was a small community in the Appalachian Mountains formed around 1900 in western NC. It was hit twice by floodwaters, once in 1916 and again in 1940. Almost the whole town was washed away in the 2nd flood and never re-built. All that remains are part of two buildings that made up a cotton mill, along with some foundations of some other buildings and traces of some old bridges, etc.

Here's one picture I took of the building that housed the boilers for the mill (my guess is they ran a steam engine to power the mill.)

Thoughts on the composition and PP? Too dark, cropping, etc? Does the tritoning give it more of a moodiness?


Cotton mill from "The Road to Mortimer" series by prabbit237, on Flickr


There's 3 other pics from the trip currently on my flickr page as well but this is my favorite.

[wal]

Too much blockage.. can't see the building.. I think this scene is better in color, so we can differentiate the old structures and surroundings.

[Laurenbiz]

To be totally, totally honest here: I don't know if I'm looking at a building, or some type of a wall structure, of just a bunch of overgrown weeds.

I agree with the other post that too much blockage is going on here.

[prabbit237]

Originally Posted by wal

Too much blockage.. can't see the building.. I think this scene is better in color, so we can differentiate the old structures and surroundings.

I attached a copy of the raw picture to this reply (no editing done at all except for converting from raw to jpg and shrinking size. Didn't bother with changing levels or anything in it.) Basically, the color image does make the building more visible as you said but I was going for a feeling of emptiness, solitude and gloom and I think the greens in the picture totally take away from that feeling. I did try de-saturating the greens and yellows some but then it just looks more like the tri-tone I originally posted but more washed out.



Actually, I wrote the above and then went back and looked again at the picture and decided to try some color adjustments. The 2nd picture attached to this reply was what I came up with. Gives it more of a fall-color look but still doesn't have the feeling I was going for in the original (but does make the building stand out more like you were wanting to see.)