Danger! High Voltage!

Whenever I see signs like that, it always reminds me of the song from Electric Six.

I saw the subject of today’s image near the car park that I use for work. I was intrigued by the number of warning signs, so I went over for a closer look (note to warning sign fitters: if you want people to keep away from something, don’t plaster it with warnings because it makes it look more interesting).

I liked the old industrial look of it, with the (seemingly broken) analogue dial on the front  and the imposing nature of the warnings. I shot it from a lower angle to make it look more imposing and also to create a nice angle with brickwork. I wanted to really highlight the danger signs so went for a selective colour approach and gave the b&w a high contrast. The signs were all different shades of yellow/orange so I hue-shifted them all to a bright yellow.

The resulting image gives the impression of danger both from the warning signs and from the yellow and black colour scheme.