Park Hill Sheffield

ichabod crane · 12 Oct 2006 at 20:52

if any of you are formilliar with park hill flats in sheffield you will know its a run down social housing scheme, well i went up there today with my camera for a bit of a shoot was quite productive in my opinion,

thanks C+C welcome

manoz · 12 Oct 2006 at 21:02

Aaah Park Hill, been the subject of many talks in my Architecture and Psychology lectures. I don't think any pictures can do justice to how unsuccessful such a scheme was. "Streets in the Air", I don't think so. These are the first time I seen pics of the place in B+W and certainly help to justify its gloominess. What's the fourth picture?

ichabod crane · 12 Oct 2006 at 21:13

the forth is little house just down the hill from park hill i liked the look of it, where you studying architecture at? and what year you in?

manoz · 12 Oct 2006 at 21:19

I'm in third year at Sheffield Uni(not Hallam!)

ichabod crane · 12 Oct 2006 at 21:26

nice im a 3rd year student in architecture at hallam. probably had the similar lectures to you on park hill.

olv · 12 Oct 2006 at 21:40

ahh the loveliness that is park hill

manoz · 12 Oct 2006 at 21:51

ichabod crane said:
nice im a 3rd year student in architecture at hallam. probably had the similar lectures to you on park hill.

Cool, my favourite lecturer(steve sharples) moved over from Hallam to our Uni, he makes all the other lecturers look like wet paint!! Shame he don't tech us in the third year though.

Colin_da_Killer · 12 Oct 2006 at 21:52

I think the tonal range is flat in these images. A better black & white conversion will help these photos a lot imo.

I like the photos though, doesn't look like a palce I would like to walk around with my camera though

ichabod crane · 13 Oct 2006 at 18:52

i agree with the tonal comment but ive been using photoshop to take out the color is there a better program to use?

Jotun · 13 Oct 2006 at 19:01

Photoshop is probabaly one of the better programs to use, just try doing it differently.

Have a look at this thread for a few different methods.

Also in a thread the other day cyKey posted a link to the action he uses for conversion which may be useful for you.

ichabod crane · 13 Oct 2006 at 20:53

well thourght i would have a go at playing with one of the shots to get the tones back what you think to this one?

Gone a bit sepia

less sepia