Rusty Bracket, #2

Meant to post this about a week ago but seem to have missed that deadline...

Second, and final shot of the rusty metal bracket. I do prefer the first one, but this one's okay too.  Taken after the feather added by my nephew had been removed.

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White on Rust

An actual new shot - not raided from my archives...

Had the opportunity to go out to shoot with my nephew yesterday. He's the new owner of his first SLR and we were going to do a bit of photography and then work on the shots later so that he could get a sense of some of the things I do to process my shots.

We got on location, started to get cameras out and he said "I think I forgot to put my battery back in the camera, it's still in the charger".  Rookies! So instead of both of us collecting some shots, I took some then we headed back to try out the processing end of things. This isn't one of the ones we worked on together, but I rather like the colour and texture in this one so I thought I'd post it first.

What you see is a very rusted metal bracket bolted onto a rock that would be underwater at high tide. The feather, which I'll admit gives a bit of scale, was added by my nephew.

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Locked

I'm not sure how this will look on other monitors - it's one of those images that I just know is going to be immensely affected by all the little vagaries of other monitors; well, at least the cheap monitors at work...

This is actually the second version that I processed. Not that there was necessarily anything wrong with the first version, it just didn't have the dramatic oomph. Although I suppose that begs the question "Does this one have dramatic oomph?" If not, it's at least a step down the road toward learning how this style of image is created. Not sure that I could duplicate it is I had to, but it's a start.

Oh, in case you're wondering what it is, it's a Canadian Pacific Rail padlock on a track-switch. What caught my eye was the relatively rust-free lock body surrounded by (and embedded with) lots of rust. I don't think they actually run any trains on these tracks anymore, so one wonders why they'd need the lock, but there it was. Ideally, given the available light I should have taken a longer exposure but this was one of those times when I hadn't taken my tripod along as I didn't expect to need it.

[This shot was taken within a few feet of "Zero Four One" and "Sitting on a Siding".]

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Chain Mosaik

Whilst browsing through my files this evening I came across this image, taken almost a month ago, that I'd completely forgotten about. It's a bit of a cheesy over-produced HDR image, but I do kind of like the extreme over-saturated colours.

At least it's a new post (I think I just set a new personal record for time between posts), and if nothing else, it's not a bird...

As regards birds, if you take a look in the right margin of this blog, you'll find a new "Birds" gallery. While I will probably still post the occasional bird picture on the blog, many will just find their way into the gallery so it'll probably be worth checking out from time to time for updates. When you get to the gallery, you can check out individual pictures or view a slide show. Even better, if you have Cooliris for Firefox installed, use that to view the lot - it's a very good way to view a web album. If you use Firefox and haven't yet added Cooliris (and Cooliris previews)... well why not do it now?

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Rust(ic)

Second shot from McDonald Beach on Saturday afternoon. This one is also an HDR image, but created from a single RAW photo, rather than the five used to create my previous post.

Processing an image like this as an HDR allows a lot more of the detail and colour to pop out. It's actually quite a bit brighter than the actual scene - it was the last shot of the day - but that was courtesy of a nice long exposure and not really a factor of the post-processing.

As for the subject matter... I've spent a bit of time puzzling over the particular arrangement of metal plates, washers chain and nut/bolt. Haven't come to any conclusions yet as to why they're arranged the way they are.

[still no word on my lens...]

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