Brutalist Architecture

[Mohain]

A phrase coined after the time rather than during it, I should imagine ('Brutalist' is such a good word :D).

First 5 photos are of the Barbican Estate, London EC2 and the rest are from a housing estate in Tower Hamlets, London E14 (designed by Erno Goldfinger).

Some IR, some HD, some 'tone mapped' 16mb Tiffs & some 'normal' photos.

First shot is inspired by Hoodi ;)


1.
http://www.poijoy.com/mohain/linky/barb_ir.jpg

2.
http://www.poijoy.com/mohain/linky/barb_hdr2.jpg

3.
http://www.poijoy.com/mohain/linky/barb_mono.jpg

4.
http://www.poijoy.com/mohain/linky/barb2.jpg

5.
http://www.poijoy.com/mohain/linky/barb.jpg

6.
http://www.poijoy.com/mohain/linky/se14.jpg

7.
http://www.poijoy.com/mohain/linky/se14_2.jpg

8.
http://www.poijoy.com/mohain/linky/urban4.jpg


C & C welcome.

Cheers,

Mohain

[matty]

i very much like the textures that youve pulled out the shots, works well.

#4, #5, #6 are by far the best ones for me, #5 is especially good

[Dark Star]

Thats a fantastic set Mohain.

#4 and #6 are outstanding in my humble opinion...very inspirational thanks for posting!

John

[Steep]

Very very effective processing there, the first shot looks almost like a Sheeler painting

[photostar_1]

Very effective..........dark and moody. The textures are really impressive. :thumbs:

[lee]

Really nice set, my favourite has to be the one with the lilac fowers though, the contrast between the 2 works really well.

TFS

[Marcel]

A brilliant set. Numbers 2, 4, 5 and 6 stand out for me. Very striking indeed. Number 6 especially.

[RickMezza]

Superb set of pics. #5 is my favourite, closely followed by #1.

[petemc]

You just made my face implode. Love #1.

[BobR]

IMHO some of the best shots I have seen posted in a long time. Brilliant!

[Digital SPG]

Wow. 5 and 6 for me.

Very bleak. What were they thinking when they built them??

[Hoodi]

Didn't twig for a moment that "Hoodi" is me ¬_¬
Flippin fantastic shots - I love mean 60's 70's style concrete wonderland architechture - just done a fairly large series on it based on Cardiff stuff.. All shot on film, though - and I'm less than inspired by the scans I've managed thus far.
My only quam with the shots is that there's some barrel distortion going on - most noticable in 2. Normally wouldn't bother me much, but in architechture shots..
Easily fixed in a number of ways, though - most obvious being photoshop CS2, if you have it.

[chewyuk]

IMHO some of the best shots I have seen posted in a long time. Brilliant!

Totally agree, these are belting snaps - Absolutely belting.

[minimeeze]

These are fab :clap: You have managed to make something I wouldn't even look twice at, very appealing and interesting. I particularly like #5 - the starkness of the concrete against the softness of the flowers makes avery good contrast.

[InaGlo]

Pretty much love all of them but, no1 is definately the kind of pic Id hang on my wall!

[shiato storm]

Want brutalist? go check out some of mussolini's stuff...

great set of images there Mohain, very nicely done

[shiato storm]

You just made my face implode.
ergh! what a thought!

[Catdaddy]

#1 and #4 for me. Amazing processing on these pics!

[P-E]

Brilliant set of shots.

Love the processing on 4 & 6 :thumbs:

[Mohain]

Thanks a lot for your very kind comments. I really appreciate them :)

Hoodi, I do have a problem with distortion at the wide end of the lens on my camera and it's not even so takes a lot of fiddling to get it right. I hadn't seen it in no.2 but now you point it out ... (cheers *** :D)

This is probably the most fun I've had shooting and processing a set of pics. I must track down some more architecture of the Brutalist nature ;)

[KenCo]

Well it's easier to say the only one I don't care for is no.3....really good stuff!

[Tuna]

Gritty and futuristic. Nice set.

Tuna

[Matt Charlton]

I like them all, 1, 4 and 6 are my favorites though, love what you've done with the B&W transformation.

[Mohain]

Thanks Ken, Tuna & Darksaber :)

[HIMUPNORTH]

Oh bugger!

No pictures to see and when I use the link from the page source get an "account suspended" message.

Please pay your bill so I can see what got everyone so excited ;)

[Hoodi]

Hoodi, I do have a problem with distortion at the wide end of the lens on my camera and it's not even so takes a lot of fiddling to get it right. I hadn't seen it in no.2 but now you point it out ... (cheers *** :D)

Ah, the old moustache distortion - what a 'mare!