Tin Shed

Photographed using a slow shutter speed from the window of a moving

vehicle.

 

Thanks for any constructive comments/suggestion.

What a beauty!! good post processing , best regards 7/7 a.

Beautiful! I like the recognizeable aspects yet the softness the blur creates in the fields of grass. The motion blur gives it a thing of the past feel as if we are moving past and leaving it behind.

Great stuff!

Kirk

This is what all people who use photoshop filters (paint, blur, etc.) should look at as a lesson in why NOT to overuse those filters. Because they don't hold a candle to the depth and artistry that can be created when one, like you, uses a camera creatively to create the effects they see and want to convey. One is tempted to say, "this looks like a painting." But, no, it doesn't. It looks like a photograph and that would be the point. The softness of focus along with the muted nature of the colors blend into a very harmonic image. This structure and these hills really have a presence, they come alive in your vision, the world you've seen through your car window. You've given us an expansion, an interpretation, of a landscape, a scene. This is interpretive, not representational, and it shows someone obviously more and more comfortable with his medium and willing to explore seriously the medium and its world rather than look for gimmicks and quick answers.

very nicely done Gordon.

Coming several times to this one too, what attracted me especially aside from the technic, is the color palette of the green roof with the little red bench?in the FG and gray tones, all connect colorwise to the natural surrounding pallete( including the sky) , which creates a special atmospher. Hard to explain, it is the feeling....;-))

Gosh, Gordon, this has to be my favorite. It is so interesting and beautiful, so creative and fun to study. It's cool how you were able to capture the lines in the tin and just the hint of the fence. Certainly the muted tones are a huge factor in the impact. I take my hat off to you, your master of this technique is unequaled, I think.

Joao Pereira;

 

Thanks for the comment. As far as PP goes there was very little adjustment done to this beyond standard conversion of the original raw file. In PS a minor shadow/highlight adjustment, a curve adjustment, some selective de-saturation, a slight crop to level the building and sharpening after resizing. The bulk of the' look' of this image is the direct result of in-camera technique.

 

Kirk;

 

I enjoy your take on this, it is an apt description of the fleeting images that fly by the window. They do fade into the past as they fade into the distance.

 

 

Fred;

 

Thanks for your endorsement of the results of my stubborn insistence on doing things the hard way. It means a great deal to me to know that others see the distinct difference between what I try to achieve and the PS filters and plugins that are so often employed. Not that I have anything against software manipulation, It just is not the road I'm traveling at the moment.

Thanks for commenting on the colours.

The muted colours seemed to fit with the gray sky and the old disused look of the building. I find myself reducing saturation to achieve my goals much more often than increasing saturation. Sometimes when I look around PN, I become convinced that many people think those sliders only travel in one direction.

 

Josh;

 

Thanks for stopping by and BTW when I read you lovely comment on my portfolio, I did indeed blush :-)

 

Pnina;

 

The red object in front of the building is I believe an old rusty furnace oil tank but I agree it does end up looking like a bench. Selectively de-saterating the colours and trying to get a soft , subtle palette was the biggest challenge with this one. Thanks for letting me know that I managed to communicate the atmosphere to you.

 

Liz;

 

Thanks, for sharing your impressions. I am glad that the muted aspect comes through so clearly. Your continued feedback helps greatly with my ongoing efforts to hone this technique.

This, though beautiful, is unsettling to me. I have the impression that the wind is going to carry it away at any moment. I love the muted color, and you are absolutely right about the "one-way" rule on Saturation Avenue. I'm glad you went against traffic.

Jeff;

 

The smear effect of dragging the image over the sensor does often give the look of gale force wind blowing the substance of objects as if they were made of sand. Nothing is as substantive as it appears.

 

I'll attach a drive-by which although taken on a calm sunny day has always made me feel like I am in the path of a hurricane.

I like your attached photo a lot. You gotta give me your secret. Photoshop, fun as it is, doesn't produce the results that can be done with in-camera skill. Cheers.

Jeff;

 

There is nothing proprietary going on here. I am always glad to share notes but the truth is that the secret is actually more a bunch of small lessons gleaned from constant experimentation than a single trick of the trade. At this point a fair amount of my technique has become automatic and I have to force myself to come up with new approaches rather than going with what has become tried and true.

 

Last winter a member of PN sent me an e-mail asking how to try and achieve the results I get from my drive-by shots. In response I put together a brief overview, more of a point form list of the parameters and how they interact, than a ' how to ' guide. Since it was tailored to someone else, some amount of it would be old news to you, however if you are interested drop me a line and I would be glad to dig up the mail and cut and past the list. Of course if you have any specific questions I am glad to share.

The smear effect works so well to make this tin shed merge into the landscape, quite literatlly. However I think the image is so strong as a whole the way the colour of the far hillside matches the scrap in the foreground and the green of the roofs match the swash of pines behind. This wasn't just a lucky snap! Well done.

Love it!

Lucy;

 

Thanks for such an in depth critique. Part of the challenge of these shots is achieving a pleasing degree of smear. I am happy when the balance between motion and discernability plays out well.

 

Arthur;

 

Glad to hear it, and thanks for stopping by.

Just saw this in No Words, Wow! The shed seems translucent. Lovely colors and rhythms.

Dave;

 

 

Thanks and nice to hear from you. I have always been fond of the way slow shutter work drags the background through the foreground making everything seem less solid and substantial.

Hola Gordon. You are a master of moved shots, when someone tell me "I don't like that one, it is moved" I will redirect them to your shots, I hope they will rethink about. Thanks for so nice shots. Abrazos.

Thanks for the kind words. I think that some people will not like these type of photos no matter what. The ones I always get a smile from are the people who refuse to believe these images are done in the camera and not with photoshop :-)

Ive been trying shots like this, gosh this is great! thanks forthe inspiration.