Cardboard boxes #1 - with variations by goodoleboy
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Captured 1/29/15, early morning, behind the local Fallas Paredes store.
The original on top, just for the record.
Everyone loves cardboard boxes, especially business packagers, household movers, little boys, and homeless people.
Have a good one.
Comments (8)
Mulltipass
3rd one is awesome!!! Excellent capture and post-work!!
claude19
I prefer really the 4th from the top one !!! superb manipulation !!! very graphic !!!
giulband
Very very cool work !!!!
magnus073
I really like the variations you came up with for this one, Harry.
Cyve
Great manipulations and fantastic results... Fantastically well done !!!
MrsRatbag
My first job at work yesterday morning was to unpack a new refrigerator, so I've had my hands on plenty of cardboard lately! This is a bit of a mess, but a very photogenic one. Your variations are wonderful, great work Harry!
jocko500
cool
anahata.c
With Giuliano (guilband), very, very cool work. I'm skipping ahead only because I'm at 2 hours now, and have to stop for now...and I'm abashed that I've only done 12 or 13 images in that time. I'm just slow some days; I'll try to move faster next time. But I always like to skip near the end, to acknowledge all that's "ahead" of me. A wonderfully wild original---it reminds me of your padlock shots, for its skewed feeling and 'street fair' wildness. It's a pile, so there's cohesion; but with all kinds of crazy counterpoint---ie, in the directions of the boxes (where they're facing), the thickness, some are opened while some are closed, in the colors---that big white one on top is a great topping to the group---in the fact that some are 'in' the pile while others are to the side, and in the crazy patterns on the ground. Ie, that tar-colored paint is broken up with atolls and little ponds. And there's brick behind and a stucco wall---a real cornucopia shot. You had me at the original! (I also love the long cardboard piece drooping out of the top box---ie, the strip that reaches the end of the "Hipack" carton.) But then a variation with strong darkening, where it looks like it was singed by a fire: It's sinister, or like it was drawn in heavy charcoal. The third is half dissolved in a dream-sequence that makes it look like a fuzzy musing, and brings out the sheer shapes all the more, because it simplifies them. The boxes are actually kinda cute in this one. (And it looks like it's painted rather than photographed.) And the final one is clarified, ie, by ink lines which give it an etching feeling. Actually the diagonals could almost be heavy rainfall. Amazing how this kind of treatment eradicates some of the mess, and turns it into a very serious study, the kind artists have done for centuries, of line, thickness, shadow, etc. Quite a diverse collection, and you end with one that makes it all seem like a serious scientific study. Fine work, on a most difficult subject, I should add; and your space around the pile is all that's needed to balance it out. I'm glad you didn't get any "eeeeeeuuuuuuuuwwwwwwww"s---some viewers would wince at such a sight: But everyone above really likes this, and they should. I love it.