Famine Memorial on Custom House Quay, Dublin, Ireland.
'These statues commemorate the Great Famine of the mid 19th century when Ireland lost more than one million people to famine and emigration.
The statues were designed and crafted by Dublin sculptor Rowan Gillespie'
(//www.rowangillespie.com/)
My idea here was to use the naked trees and overexpose a bit by spot metering to pretty dark statues to get a rather empty background to create a lifeless scene around the statue.
I hope I have done justice to a great piece of powerful art.
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Processing (Photoshop CS):
- Cloned out a few distracting elements in the bottom left corner.
- Curves for contrast
(Original is a bit more overexposed than I had intended to and looks more washed out).
- Channel Mixer to convert to Monochrome.
- Hue/Saturation for the tint.
- Resampled.
- Applied Unsharp Mask.
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The stark white background along with the barren trees in the background really adds to the imagery that you wish to portray here: a cold, stark, and empty world. The statue carries another figure and on the face we can clearly see the anguish crafted into it's face. All elements combine to make us 'see' a little of the pain and suffering that occured during Ireland's Great Potato Famine.
One of my top three choices for this challenge. Your choice of sepia and processing for a stark white background with reduced and sketchy detail is perfect for the message contained within this image. Great job! You have my admiration for this marvelous composition.
This shot really captures the mood of your subject. Great detail and choice of border to accentuate the bleakness portrayed. VERY good shot. Bumping up. 10.
This is a great picture. The fact that you blew out the whites so the trees look so stark and starving. This photo shows famine and despair perfectly. I wouldn't change a thing. a striking image 10
What a stark, commanding image to draw us in and keep us there. Like good poetry or music, I can feel something differently each time I visit this image. There is a bleak, frigid barrenness depicted, but also an emerging hope in my eyes.
you have brought this sculpture to life. my God, this evokes a scream of raging silence! i would love to see before and afters on this, just to better understand how you are able to draw this image out. i'd also love to see a dead-on documentary style shot just to compare what everybody else sees with what you saw. the despair and desolation and anguish are almost too much to bear. this is easily one of the most powerful images on this site!
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