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Whilst visiting a relatives farm recently I spent some time wandering about taking photos... Doesn't beat star trails but at least it's daytime

Tractor



Farmers Best...



Decay



Who's Looking at You

there is something eerie about those moo cows..

Love the second shot of man's best friend. The atmosphere in the shot really adds value to the subject (which to me is the happy little barker). I find myself admiring the contrast in this image in particular

#1 I reckon leave out the HDR (especially the detail outside the barn is non-contributory) and it's a nice shot with perspective. Scale is missing a little although I feel that the tires are huge; so maybe it's not as missing as I think.

#3 special effects prevail and it's hard to actually see the image. What have you done to it?

#2 Nice compo and context. Take your sharpening pedal off slightly....

#4 could be the poster for the hitchcock movie "Cows".

photomarcs wrote:there is something eerie about those moo cows.. Love the second shot of man's best friend. The atmosphere in the shot really adds value to the subject (which to me is the happy little barker). I find myself admiring the contrast in this image in particular

Thanks Marcus - and I know - freaky how a herd of cows will follow you with their eyes - perhaps it was about to be the bovine equivalent of The Birds....

surenj wrote:#1 I reckon leave out the HDR (especially the detail outside the barn is non-contributory) and it's a nice shot with perspective. Scale is missing a little although I feel that the tires are huge; so maybe it's not as missing as I think.

Yep I agree - but wasn't sure what to do with that rectangle of sky (just burn it down or...?)

Here's the uncropped 0EV shot with very little PP (highlight recovery + clarity, etc)



In retrospect I feel I didn't get quite close enough to the tire - I would have liked it to have been even more imposing

FYI the first three images were HDR's (the dog was just on the other side of the tractor and it was super dark with beams of light coming in)

#3 special effects prevail and it's hard to actually see the image. What have you done to it?

HDR + heavy B&W conversion - when I was taking this (and another from the other side) I was intrigued by all the old discarded farm items and it was a jumble of lines going everywhere which I wanted to capture. I'm still not happy with the result but am unsure where to take it.

#2 Nice compo and context. Take your sharpening pedal off slightly....

- although much of that is probably "detail" from the HDR processing. NB: Getting a three shot bracket of a dog without him moving between and during frames (it's very dark in here - the last frame was 3 seconds long) was lets say tricky

#4 could be the poster for the hitchcock movie "Cows".

we obviously think along the same twisted lines