Sachsenhausen Concentration Camp c&c

Quackles

Hello all..

It's been a while, but I finally got back in the photographic saddle last week, love it just as much as ever! Took these pics in a concentration camp outside of Berlin, would love your input. There's plenty more in my pix.ie if you click on the images.

Atomic Pineapple

Really love the first picture!

humberklog

The 1st is nearly brilliant for me but the ratio of sides is of such an odd size. The curvature of the urinals combined with the bland uniformity of the space demand either a golden ratio rectangle or square croppping.

The present cropping is too intrusive to the gentle pathos of the content.

Quackles

draffodx wrote: »

Really love the first picture!

Thank you.. who'd have thought urinals would be my favourite pic of the day?

Quackles

humberklog wrote: »

The 1st is nearly brilliant for me but the ratio of sides is of such an odd size. The curvature of the urinals combined with the bland uniformity of the space demand either a golden ratio rectangle or square croppping.

The present cropping is too intrusive to the gentle pathos of the content.

Thanks so much for the feedback.. I cropped it as you see above because I thought the dark corner (bottom left) added to the atmosphere of the picture.. cropped off the top because the blinds had writing on them which detracted from the image. I'll have a play with crops and see how they look.

Rb

I quite like the shape/crop of the 1st one, will be interesting to see how it can be improved*





*Newbie opinion

Quackles

Ok, tried a couple of different crops -





The square is interesting.. I gotta say, though, I still prefer the elongated one. Total rookie opinion, mind you, I just know what I like

humberklog

Could you pop the original un-cropped image up?

Although it is indeed a smart photo it doesn't convey a sense of placed.
It's more Marcel Duchamp as opposed to Nazi concentration camp.

alexandros

Nice work!!
I like the lighting.

Personally; I liked the third photo in your set.
I imagine the rooms were small and it was difficult to maneuver around to get more angles.

I was a bit confused as to why there would be such modern looking urinals in a German concentration camp.. so I went to wikipedia and looked up "Sachsenhausen concentration camp".. Interesting article!

(There were also more photos in the article)

..which then led me to look up the history of urinals..
(yes; I was that bored)
..which brought me to this site:
http://www.urinal.net/
that has photos of "The Top 10 Most Fascinating Urinals" in the world.
Enjoy!

John

alexandros wrote: »

..which brought me to this site:
http://www.urinal.net/
that has photos of "The Top 10 Most Fascinating Urinals" in the world.
Enjoy!

I stayed at the hotel in Amsterdam that came in fifth (didn't see those urinals though, must have been in the bar).

gary82

alexandros wrote: »

http://www.urinal.net/
that has photos of "The Top 10 Most Fascinating Urinals" in the world.
Enjoy!

#5 (Kisses) is the same as the urinals in Massimo's in Galway City.

I really like the first photo too op, prefer the crop you uploaded in your initial post...

Trojan911

Great shots. Would you consider converting them to B&W?

A buddy of mine took some images of a concentration camp [can't remeber which one] some years back & he shot them all in B&W. It was, to me, a better contrast than colour. It looked more stark & real.

Quackles

humberklog wrote: »

Could you pop the original un-cropped image up?

Although it is indeed a smart photo it doesn't convey a sense of placed.
It's more Marcel Duchamp as opposed to Nazi concentration camp.

At your service.. by the by, your posts keep making me have to google stuff I feel so stoopid