The Texture of Old Steel (Page 2): :sm24:...

DaveC1 Loc: South East US

edrobinsonjr wrote:

Thanks, Dave. That is an interesting technique that shows up well using the "double download."

Ed

Curmudgeon Loc: SE Arizona

I really like the last one.

Are these scans of old negatives or recent shots.

DaveC1 Loc: South East US

Curmudgeon wrote:

I really like the last one.

Are these scans of old negatives or recent shots.

Recent shots. Glad you liked them.

ebrunner Loc: New Jersey Shore

DaveC1 wrote:

These were shot on 120 Tri-X 400 film, Bronica S2 50mm f2.8 lens.

I spent a lot of time looking at that first image, which is the most interesting to me. I'm wondering if you could have cropped closer to that gear that seems to be your focal point. You would still want to keep the textures of the peeling paint; but there seems to be a lot of negative space in this composition that might not be necessary. The bulk of the machinery comes through in this image. It is clearly very heavy duty stuff;and you brought that out nicely.
erich

DaveC1 Loc: South East US

ebrunner wrote:

I spent a lot of time looking at that first image, which is the most interesting to me. I'm wondering if you could have cropped closer to that gear that seems to be your focal point. You would still want to keep the textures of the peeling paint; but there seems to be a lot of negative space in this composition that might not be necessary. The bulk of the machinery comes through in this image. It is clearly very heavy duty stuff;and you brought that out nicely.
erich

Hello Erich, I didn't do any cropping on any of the three. And to be honest it didn't cross my mind (imagine that, duh.) #1 &#2 are both close up images of a rail mounted ladle car that was used to carry molten iron. The #1 image shows the gear detail used to tip the ladle and pour the molten iron out of the kettle.