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Last weekend, Ken & I bought a beautiful little metal gazebo- rusted and perfect for SO many of my tiny spots here- it's not big at all - 6 ft. wide. But here it sits, still on the truck! Not as easy as I thought, with only two of us to manage getting it off there! The leg columns are lying down in the bottom of the truck bed. :)
This is not "new" new, but new to me! I hope that counts! :)
Taken for the Jules' Photo Challenge Group
Instructions: April 28 - Something brand new ( purchased or received within the last week or so)
Goldfield Ghost Town, Apache Junction, Pinal County, AZ Jul 2, 2011 — I hand-held multiple exposures then converted five images to tiffs using Lightroom. I used Photomatrix to tone-map the HDR image. I spruced-up the image using the Topaz plug-ins DeNoise, Detail, and Simplify, and touched-up the image using Photoshop.
PENTAX K-5
SMC Pentax-DA* 16-50mm Æ’2.8 ED AL [IF] SDM
ISO 100-400, Æ’5.6, 1/50-1/125
This old rusted hook was screwed into a blue wooden fence post or something of that nature, and had bits of ivy covering it.
Taken with a Canon 60mm USM Macro lens. Type L for a better view.
Our Daily Challenge - Begins With R - 11/27/11
Another one of my personal favorites... The Tokina 12-24mm f/4 has proven to be incredibly reliable!
Left over from a set of hay mow pulleys I photographed several years ago. I took another shot at it because I love the casting detail as well as the rusty texture. This is another 50mm prime lens exercise. It provides a great quality shot. The EF Myers Company was known for its efficient water pumps but they also manufactured other products for agriculture. www.farmcollector.com/equipment/history-f-e-myers-and-bro/
Viewing large on black shows all the grungy details. ;)
This is an old Plymouth that sits in a driveway in my neighborhood. I love the colors of the rust against the fading body paint. Throw a little chrome in there and it's photographic eye candy. ;)
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PROCESSING NOTES:
for each individual image I ...
- duplicated the Background Layer, changed to LAB Mode, ran a high-pass filter, changed back to RGB Mode, and switched the blend mode of that layer to Soft Light
- duplicated the new layer to double the effect
- made another duplicate of the Background Layer, dragged it to the top, ran high-pass filter, changed blend mode of that layer to Soft Light (to bring out details even more)
- made a stamp of all layers, added a b&w adjustment layer, manually adjusted it for a high-contrast look, switched that stamped layer to Soft Light blend mode, then tweaked the b&w adjustment layer until I achieved the desired look
- added a texture layer to the top and changed it's blend mode to Soft Light
After putting them all into the collage then individual adjustments were made (curves, hue, levels, masks where needed, etc.) to get them all to flow well.
I have found my personal rust paradise, only about 45 min from me. acres of old cars and trucks untouched for decades. It was a scrap yard years ago, but even the wrecks are awesome. I was overwhelmed walking the place, it would take a solid month just to see it all. much less Photograph. so...anytime I want to shoot old cars. I got that covered.
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I have noticed lately that some of my photos were not appearing in Big Huge Lab's Scouting program but were shown in Explore.
Some examples are as follows:
Nudgeeliciousness, Rust, and Nudgeelicious.
Not sure what to think of it but I thought I'd dedicate this photo for their rusty algorithm.
This was taken at Woody Point, Queensland.
Toys
Canon 400D, Canon 24-105mm f/4 L IS, Handheld
Processing
4 Portrait oriented shots taken in RAW individually processed and merged to form an HDR panorama.
Photomatix
RAW file Tone Mapped using Detail Enhancer and saved as 16-bit TIFF.
Photoshop CS4
Tonal adjustment using Camera Raw 5.2
Adjustment layers - curves with blending mode
Smart Filter - Unsharp Mask
Saved as JPEG
Borders
Explore # 464 Sept. 23, 2007
This truck reminded me of "Mater" from Cars for some reason. The other pics I took weren't that great b/c it was on a trailer.
Rosanky Swap Meet, Rountop, TX