Advertising Cylinder, Glorieta Insurgentes

If one was into Bauhaus-style graphic design, Photoshop might work miracles with the perspective distortion as well as the lack of contrast. I doubt anybody actually sees this amazing structure in their mind the way it's rendered by a wide angle lens.

For some reason this image will not load on my system. All other gallery images load fine.

Picture loads on my phone. What an ugly thing and how incredibly irresponsible to distract motorists with advertising.

@Svenedin If you were familiar with the intersection, you'd know it wasn't that big a deal to "distract motorists" with. Traffic there is often at a grinding standstill. The motorists are happy for the distraction while they wait.

I see. I wouldn't be happy with it! I loathe all forms of advertising and the personal intrusion that it is.

Try displaying multiple images of sections arrayed around this snapshot...an essay about the structure. You'd need a long lens to shoot them properly. The muddy tonality looks careless.. is too dark in shade (e.g. underside of foliage) and doesn't allow the structure to stand out against the sky...the yellow filter was inappropriate. IMO yellow filter takes away from most images..better to go all the way with a red filter if you want to darken sky. The structure is interesting...maybe try shooting it at night.

Check this: https://www.pinterest.com/pin/207024914095390727/ Bernd & Hilla Becher (husband/wife). I've seen many of these prints...the skys in many of their prints look a little like yours (because of muddy German skys)...and that works for their formal studies, made with large format cameras.

@jtk Thank you for the feedback. It's not something I'm going to revisit on a regular enough basis to turn it into a photo essay, in part because it's about 2000 miles from home. With all due respect, I don't know where you're seeing a "muddy tone", as that's not what I see on my monitor at work (not calibrated) or at home (calibrated). I wasn't aiming for a high-contrast image. Darkening the skies with a red filter would be beyond overkill. Yes, I am quite familiar with Bernd & Hilla Becher's work - That's what I was thinking of when I saw it. A long lens isn't going to be useful for photographing this structure as the space it is in is not conducive to working with a long lens. I was about as far back from it as I could get in the space inside the traffic circle, and then the 50mm on the RZ67 was just barely wide enough.

@TheFlyingCamera Understood and appreciated. My multi-image suggestion did assume (mistakenly) that you have more images of/around this or more ability to make more images. As for "muddy," that appears to be a tendency at Photrio, but not always the case on my laptop, desktop, or phone. I'm newish to Photrio...is there some sort of "rule" or other non-photo bias here against post processing to gain contrast etc? It appears that many refrain from post processing, while some gain visually by changing paper contrast, even using lith. What am I missing? Glad we made the Bernd und Hilla concept-connection