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Old Steam Tractor--What can I do with this creatively?
Aug 14, 2016 13:35:48 #
While driving in the countryside recently, I spotted an old (1910) steam tractor sitting in the yard of an old farm. I had never seen one before outside of a museum, so I stopped and asked the older couple if I could photograph their tractor. They agreed and told me it had been in the family since their grandparents time. I promised them a print.
Needless to say, it was in bad shape, and its surroundings less than optimal. I did not want to do cleanup work at that moment so I just took some shots. The last one is a rough draft of what I am going to give them. But, I feel there is something better I can do with this material, but it escapes me. Please use your creative juices to suggest neat things I might do with any of the images. I need to learn "out of the box" thinking.
thanks for any input.
Needless to say, it was in bad shape, and its surroundings less than optimal. I did not want to do cleanup work at that moment so I just took some shots. The last one is a rough draft of what I am going to give them. But, I feel there is something better I can do with this material, but it escapes me. Please use your creative juices to suggest neat things I might do with any of the images. I need to learn "out of the box" thinking.
thanks for any input.
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Aug 14, 2016 13:44:19 #
jeryh
Loc: Oxfordshire UK
Try using some creative flash shots- full on , or bounced- it will make a world of difference to your shots.
Aug 14, 2016 13:48:24 #
If it was my image, I would take image number 4 and convert it to black and white. I would crop that wood platform out. Then I would get creative and shape a white cloud to come out of the stack.
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Aug 14, 2016 14:46:07 #
PixelStan77 wrote:
If it was my image, I would take image number 4 and convert it to black and white. I would crop that wood platform out. Then I would get creative and shape a white cloud to come out of the stack.
If it is really steaming, any smoke coming out of the stack will have a gray tinge to it and will have a clear upward velocity ... "cloud" isn't quite the right image.
Aug 15, 2016 08:55:41 #
jeryh wrote:
Try using some creative flash shots- full on , or bounced- it will make a world of difference to your shots.
Aug 15, 2016 09:00:09 #
A member of our camera club reshaped a could to look like steam coming out of a locomotive. It can be done in PS. He did it.
rehess wrote:
If it is really steaming, any smoke coming out of the stack will have a gray tinge to it and will have a clear upward velocity ... "cloud" isn't quite the right image.
Aug 15, 2016 09:20:07 #
Aug 15, 2016 10:58:52 #
Aug 15, 2016 13:31:14 #
rehess wrote:
If it is really steaming, any smoke coming out of the stack will have a gray tinge to it and will have a clear upward velocity ... "cloud" isn't quite the right image.
PixelStan77 wrote:
A member of our camera club reshaped a cloud to look like steam coming out of a locomotive. It can be done in PS. He did it.
I'm not sure if we are communicating accurately.
Here is something I put together that summarizes what I've learned over the past fifty years about smoke coming from some kind of "steam engine"
http://www.uglyhedgehog.com/t-405904-1.html
Aug 15, 2016 14:56:35 #
In Photoshop you can put any color tinge you want in a cloud as smoke
rehess wrote:
I'm not sure if we are communicating accurately.
Here is something I put together that summarizes what I've learned over the past fifty years about smoke coming from some kind of "steam engine"
http://www.uglyhedgehog.com/t-405904-1.html
Here is something I put together that summarizes what I've learned over the past fifty years about smoke coming from some kind of "steam engine"
http://www.uglyhedgehog.com/t-405904-1.html
Aug 15, 2016 15:01:12 #
PixelStan77 wrote:
In Photoshop you can put any color tinge you want in a cloud as smoke
My point was that you aren't just copying a cloud. You have to give it new coloring, new shape, new texture,.... Serious artistry is involved; I am not an artist, so I don't know whether a cloud or the Bob Ross approach would be better, I simply know what needs to go into the result.
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Aug 15, 2016 15:23:09 #
And a person who understands Photoshop can give it the color, shape and texture it requires to make it look like steam coming out of a locomotive.
rehess wrote:
My point was that you aren't just copying a cloud. You have to give it new coloring, new shape, new texture,.... Serious artistry is involved; I am not an artist, so I don't know whether a cloud or the Bob Ross approach would be better, I simply know what needs to go into the result.
Aug 15, 2016 16:11:52 #
PixelStan77 wrote:
And a person who understands Photoshop can give it the color, shape and texture it requires to make it look like steam coming out of a locomotive.
A person with artistic capabilities and who knows what needs to be done can do just about anything with any tool. Using PhotoShop, s/he could even make the weeds and the years go away, and perhaps put a young Elvis Presley driving the thing..
I don't understand the point of this discussion, so I'm out of here.
Aug 15, 2016 18:18:01 #
jeryh wrote:
Try using some creative flash shots- full on , or bounced- it will make a world of difference to your shots.
Thanks. If I get another opportunity at this subject, I will give that a try.
Aug 15, 2016 18:19:27 #
PixelStan77 wrote:
If it was my image, I would take image number 4 and convert it to black and white. I would crop that wood platform out. Then I would get creative and shape a white cloud to come out of the stack.
I like the black and white idea and the crop. The steam/smoke would make it seem like it was functional, and I prefer the idea at present that it is a wreck (which it is).
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