Out of the Light
Posted 17/03/2010 - 10:06
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I like the way you have used the light to bring out detail in the engine and wheels. These areas could so easily have been thrown into shadow.
david
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Posted 17/03/2010 - 10:14
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Thanks Gareth - it was all done in RAW using LR 3 beta. It has an adjustable post-crop vignetting function that I used here. So, as it was in RAW, it's all adjustable in a non-destructive way.
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Posted 17/03/2010 - 10:16
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Thanks for your comment David, I was there at the opportune moment.
Posted 17/03/2010 - 10:46
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My uncle's farm in the Hunter Valley had a wealth of great photo opportunities like this one: old hayshed and tractor shed, farm implements from a hundred years ago, rusting vintage car wrecks, the list goes on. The farm was sold about five years ago to be totally demolished by an open cut coal mine. I got my K100D Super about three years ago. See that unfortunate time-line? Maybe I can dig up some prints from the old P30-T and scan them......
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Sam-Joseph
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Posted 17/03/2010 - 11:09
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My dad used to have a Fordson Major tractor (not that we lived on a farm, in fact it did look odd parked next to the bungalow we lived in at the time) which he took to agricultural shows.
It wasn't quite as old an example as this one though.
Lovely lighting, great shot, and thank you for the memories.
It wasn't quite as old an example as this one though.
Lovely lighting, great shot, and thank you for the memories.
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Apparently.
Apparently.
Posted 17/03/2010 - 11:21
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There is a museum in a little county village where I live that has many tractors on display and some even work as they restore them. I think they have one of these that even work
I can shoot it ....
Posted 17/03/2010 - 11:26
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How did you know I'd be keenly following this series?!?
Lovely example and in off farm condition too, which is nice. I like the original metal "tyres": most over here have been replaced with rubber ones. This looks like it could be a runner, like the T20 I posted in the Gallery yesterday.
Yours looks like a pre-war Model N with an engine which runs on petrol(to start up) and then TVO, rather than my later Majors which are diesels. Coincidentally, I went back and photographed them in better light last Saturday. Got some detailed shots of lights and engines etc.
Don't want to hijack your brilliant post, but it't interesting to compare: similar things a world apart!
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Don't want to hijack your brilliant post, but it't interesting to compare them: similar things a world apart!
Best wishes,
Andrew
Lovely example and in off farm condition too, which is nice. I like the original metal "tyres": most over here have been replaced with rubber ones. This looks like it could be a runner, like the T20 I posted in the Gallery yesterday.
Yours looks like a pre-war Model N with an engine which runs on petrol(to start up) and then TVO, rather than my later Majors which are diesels. Coincidentally, I went back and photographed them in better light last Saturday. Got some detailed shots of lights and engines etc.
Don't want to hijack your brilliant post, but it't interesting to compare: similar things a world apart!
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Don't want to hijack your brilliant post, but it't interesting to compare them: similar things a world apart!
Best wishes,
Andrew
Best wishes,
Andrew
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Andrew
"These places mean something and it's the job of a photographer to figure-out what the hell it is."
Robert Adams
"The camera doesn't make a bit of difference. All of them can record what you are seeing. But, you have to SEE."
Ernst Hass
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Posted 17/03/2010 - 12:11
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Lovely shot. Along with Gareth, I think the vignette in the first one was too harsh, but a subtler vignette would work? Maybe.
My landlord has lots of old tractors. Some working and used regularly, some slowly vanishing into the undergrowth in the top patch. The wheel in the "hand of man" contest was from one of them.
K.
My landlord has lots of old tractors. Some working and used regularly, some slowly vanishing into the undergrowth in the top patch. The wheel in the "hand of man" contest was from one of them.
K.
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It is an illusion that photos are made with the camera… they are made with the eye, heart and head. Henri Cartier-Bresson
Lots of film bodies, a couple of digital ones, too many lenses (mainly older glass) and a Horseman LE 5x4.
Posted 17/03/2010 - 19:20
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Brilliant shot i berg
Emma
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"Photography is a way of feeling, of touching, of loving. What you have caught on film is captured forever... it remembers little things, long after you have forgotten everything." Aaron Siskind
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Posted 17/03/2010 - 23:19
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Thanks one and all for the many comments and observations.
Sam-Joseph - Commiserations on the very unfortunate timing. However, if you can scan the older images, they might be worth a look!
Rob - I started driving on a Nuffield petrol/kero, albeit on a farm, not in town. Not quite a teenager then, as I recall. Your Dad's Fordson may have caught a few glances, while it was parked next to the bungalow!
Elva - Opportunity beckons to you there...
Andrew - Just a wild guess... You are correct, this also is a petrol/kero model, and certainly pre-war. There are so many machines (of all types, not merely tractors) here that were imported from the UK a long time ago. Some of those have ended up in collections, naturally. They even have rallies here, for eg with grey Fergies taking the odd run. They're very well patronised too. I would be interested in seeing your recent work on those tractors, in time.
Kris and Will - thanks, I agree, subtlety was a bit lacking (OK, maybe a lot!). I was attempting (poorly) to overcome the very bright background, which led me to being somewhat heavy-handed with the vignette.
Emma - cheers!
Sam-Joseph - Commiserations on the very unfortunate timing. However, if you can scan the older images, they might be worth a look!
Rob - I started driving on a Nuffield petrol/kero, albeit on a farm, not in town. Not quite a teenager then, as I recall. Your Dad's Fordson may have caught a few glances, while it was parked next to the bungalow!
Elva - Opportunity beckons to you there...
Andrew - Just a wild guess... You are correct, this also is a petrol/kero model, and certainly pre-war. There are so many machines (of all types, not merely tractors) here that were imported from the UK a long time ago. Some of those have ended up in collections, naturally. They even have rallies here, for eg with grey Fergies taking the odd run. They're very well patronised too. I would be interested in seeing your recent work on those tractors, in time.
Kris and Will - thanks, I agree, subtlety was a bit lacking (OK, maybe a lot!). I was attempting (poorly) to overcome the very bright background, which led me to being somewhat heavy-handed with the vignette.
Emma - cheers!
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Andrew - have you seen one of these in your travels?