It’s becoming increasingly had to write something intelligent in these text except bits. What can I say? I like taking pictures of patterns and textures.
All these images have been split-toned to some extent. I think it helps prevent that plastic, artificial feeling you can sometimes get from a digital photograph.
It’s a little bit like shooting film colours with the clarity of digital… maybe?
For the amount of interesting machinery you find on the farm, I have far too few images worth processing.
Must try harder.
I’ve gone for a cross processed kind of feel with the split toning with various degrees of success. I love what it does to the greens though (I think it’s the extra blue in the shadows that does it).
Once I’d finished tweaking in Lightroom, some of these images were dropping into Photoshop so I could play around with some texture overlays to try and enhance the grimy worn feeling of the machinery.
I love the way that the lines seem to swoop along the field’s undulations.
Come to think of it, I think this is the first time I’ve ever managed to do anything useful with a 16:9 crop.
Just wish I could have captured a little more detail in those clouds.
I could have sworn I had more photos from Venditch Chase and Chickengrove Bottom.
Still, it’s better to have three shots you like than a memory card/film full of horrors.
I’d like to say that I processed these portraits in black and white to seperate the subjects from their surroundings and to place the emphasis on the texture of their bristly snouts.
Thing is that wouldn’t be the whole truth; I was still pretty rusty at using my camera when I took these shots and thus had set completely the wrong White Balance.
I should also have been shooting RAW, then it wouldn’t have been a problem (so that’s two slapped wrists for me).
Still, I think I managed to save the images…
