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My second roll of analog film. Taken October 26th.
Camera: Konica T4 (metered with phone app :S)
Lens: Hexanon AR 50mm f/1.7 (@ f2.8)
Film: [135-24] Kodak Ultramax 400
Scanner: Fujifilm Frontier SP-3000
Developing: Fujifilm LP 5700 (no push/pull)
Adjustments made in Capture One:
White Balance: 5000 (as scanned)
Tint: 0
Color Editor
Overall Hue +5
Exposure: 0
Contrast: +10
Brightness: -10
Saturation: 0
Highlight: 0
Shadow: 0
White: +10
Black: -30
Shadow Level: 0
Midtone Level: 0
Highlight Level: 255 (default)
(otherwise all left as recieved from the local lab)
I used to make custom motorcycle speedometer faces, (Alien Faces) and this is one that I made for a customer. (These were high resolution printed inserts that was placed OVER your original speedometer face)
He had a WWII P-51 Mustang airplane theme and wanted something fit the theme.
We talked about it in e-mail and came up with this, he just had a vague idea as to what he wanted.
His motorcycle had a custom paint job on it that had bullet holes and some intentional paint wear, rust, damage, exhaust smudge etc. So, that is what he wanted to continue on this.
I know that those with a sharp eye will see that the two gauges have (digitally painted) glass over them. The inner face has broken (digitally painted) glass over it too, AND, not just that, but there was some REAL glass over these. :)
So, that part, while hokey, he loved it, and we both knew it was WAY over the top, but he wanted it that way, so...
Also, in real life if those bullet holes were from a German plane, the holes would be larger, so practically NONE of what you see is realistic. (These are .22 caliber size)
In my mind I designed this to be like an old plane that was in a plane boneyard and was rusting for years and he came along and saved it. That was how I looked at it, and realism is what I aimed for, although, nothing was realistic in 'real life'. :)
I learned how to do rust, and age things while making this.
This was all done in Photoshop after looking online at how planes (especially P-51's) gauges looked. Actually, I couldn't find one, so I looked at other plane gauges and just went with it.
He was ex-Air Force so he had to have the Air Force star, and he also wanted the small type in small print about, "War Bird", his bike. (See circular print in the inner ring)
He won some contests with his bike, I saw it in a magazine once.
I did several that were in magazines actually, I had a really good business while it lasted.
(Another guy saw this and wanted one for his bike and he had been a Tomcat pilot, so I made him one for that, I had several pilots actually)
Anyway, yeah, it's not realistic, but you just have to open your mind, or, have a shot of tequila, whichever. :)
Rusting tin cans from mid 19th century expeditions are arranged in the form of a cross next to the remains of Northumberland House on Beechey Island, Canada.
A scene at Balbriggan harbour on Ireland's east coast on the afternoon of Monday 25th September 2023.
Never one to miss an opportunity for a musical reference, for the title I have adapted the name of the acclaimed 1979 album by Neil Young and Crazy Horse, called Rust Never Sleeps.
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Old truck just sitting there along Hwy 37 just north of Novato, California. I'm pretty sure it's a 1930's vintage Chrysler.
It's not often I show a before shot (in the comments), in fact, I have only done it once but I thought it was time to do it again. Truth be told, I'm rusted and can't come up with a good (or bad) story. Nor did I have any idea what to shoot today but I know I wanted to shoot something.
With no idea what to photograph, I went outside and looked around. I try to come up with different photos to keep the viewer from getting bored with my shots and at the same time I want people to see a shot and know right away it's from me.
I found an old metal and glass candle holder hanging on the fence full of cob webs. I love the rust on it so I decided the rusted candle holder would be the subject.
As for the background, that was tougher. Composition is everything to me. You can't have a good shot without it.
I love my gargoyles and I haven't taken a photo of them in awhile so I decided I wanted one in bokeh for the background. I found one I thought made a nice profile. Then I found a nice red leafy plant in a pot and thought it would make great flames coming off the gargoyle.
So I placed the red leafy plant in a nice spot, positioned the gargoyle about a foot in front of it then placed the rusted candle holder about two feet in front of that. I took my camera, got a few inches from the candle holder and found the angle I wanted but then I had to re arrange the gargoyle and red plant to fit the line of sight.
Once set up, I took 5 shots at different exposures. Processed them through Niks HDR effexs. Then processed it through Niks Color Efex and smoothed the shot out using Niks Dfine. I saved it as a Tiff and opened the shot using Lightroom to add some finishing touches with saturation and exposure then saved as a Tiff and JPG. (jpg is uploaded on flickr, tiff is saved on my computer)
So thats how I take a shot, good or bad, and hopefully I can shake some of this rust off soon and get back to normal.
View on black or I will send the cobs to your house to leave there webs all over
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