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i'm soooo down with the rust homey. excellent patina here: the rust mingling with blues and steely grays-- plus a great composition accentuated by perfect DOF. cool.
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I am a fan of rust and being around salt water I tend to find much of it. I like seeing the touches of blue in the image where the welds were done. That adds some nice color to the image. I'm unsure if I would have seen this for photographic value, but then again I did take a few shots at a construction site some years ago. I wonder where those shots are on my computer...
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I just wanted to submit some evidence of yesterday's foray out into the larger world, Shawn. There was this pile of rails along the line. You may have helped me figure out whether these were new (for installation) or old (for scrap): if they had once been welded, I guess it's the latter.

 

I'll add that this was an ill-fated excursion in that while I was off shooting, some snot-nosed, bed-wetting, &^%^%#@ cretin broke into my car by smashing the right rear window and stole my bag of useful but low-value stuff (rope, bungee cords, duct tape, etc.) Interesting that this $#!~ only happens to me out in the boonies--not in the city. Rest assured this won't send me sniveling back to wandering about the garden with the macro ;~)

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I was going to ask if these were new (to be installed) or old (having been recently removed) but I'm pretty sure those are welding marks on the ends so that may answer the question.

 

Sorry about your car. It has been 35 years since that last happened to me so I suspect that I am due for another one. However, my sorry old truck was stolen about 10 years ago by some very desperate persons. They only drove it about one mile before leaving it for something better. Hope you can get your car repaired to "as good as new" with no issues, but I know it will be a hassle to deal with.

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Now I'm obsessing over this just like one of those tulips--arghh! I cleaned off the rocks and re-shot this morning but it's a bright sky day and the light was too severe. I'll try again this afternoon when it's in shadow.
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Okay, take along some Turtle Wax and polish these suckers up a bit while you are at it!

 

 

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I like both versions very much. Well composed and very fine detail. Nice color -- both full strength and slightly desat. Regards...
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I prefer your second shot over the first, not because you removed the rocks but because you have given us more depth by including more at the top of the image. Also, I like the blue that has been included into the image. Nice shot.
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Almost always when I'm shooting a shot I will include 10% to 20% of the area surrounding what I want to show. With the Canon 5D I have plenty of pixels to spare so I can do a significant crop and still get my shot. If I were planning on printing off the image as big as possible then I would have to take more care in the initial framing in the camera.

 

By including this extra area surrounding the image that caught my eye, I have found that during editing for display that I will often change my idea about the image. There have been only a few times that I had to go back and re-shoot an image a second or third time because I did not get what I wanted on first attempt. The one time that I tried on four different occasions to get a shot I ended up deleting all attempts. I was not allowed to use a tripod in that area and the mono-pod just would not work for me.

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I've come to adopt a similar strategy, Shawn. Straightening is another reason to allow a little excess (and a little excess i. In this case, it was a matter of height: the first shot was hand-held but I used a tripod for the re-shoot which lowered the pov.
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