The Master In You: Topic for August - Less Than Pristine (Page 9): Not a composite. Its simply what was, albeit with the background isolated and modified. Apart from having brought...

Cany143 Loc: SE Utah

ebrunner wrote:

I really like the background. I would not have guessed this to be a fence post; it has a rusty something attached to it. I think it works. I'm guessing that this is a composite image. It looks really well put together. Nice photo.
Erich

Not a composite. Its simply what was, albeit with the background isolated and modified. Apart from having brought up the shadow areas in 'the subject,' the colors (in the post/rusty thingie) have not been altered.

Curmudgeon Loc: SE Arizona

R.G. wrote:

If you look closely you may be able to spot that the tractor has lost some of its showroom polish

. Oh well - the "as new" look is destined to be temporary and sometimes fleeting. Perhaps it spent too long out working in the heat of the day....
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Seems fairly clear that it burned but probably not from the heat of the day. I'm going to guess it was abandoned after the insurance paid off.

R.G. Loc: Scotland

captivecookie wrote:

Terribly sorry, but there seems to be a scratch... just there.

This is a good one for color. The tones in black and white would have been so subtle something would surely be lost.

I was wondering who would be the first to pick up on the scratch

. Returning to it I though the saturation was perhaps a bit strong, but as you say, subtlety is probably not the best option.

R.G. Loc: Scotland

ebrunner wrote:

The interest here is: What happened? It looks like it was stripped of most of its parts. Were they used elsewhere? Cool.
Erich

The remains of the tyres are still on the wheel rims, which suggests that a fairly intense fire stripped the tractor of anything combustible. There's a glimpse of green on the front fork assembly, which suggests it may have been a John Deere. Apart from that it would be difficult to tell.

R.G. Loc: Scotland

Curmudgeon wrote:

Seems fairly clear that it burned but probably not from the heat of the day. I'm going to guess it was abandoned after the insurance paid off.

Hot summers in Scotland?? Not much chance of pulling that one off

. Going by the extent of the damage it must have been an intense fire at another location and the remains were taken away as scrap.

ebrunner Loc: New Jersey Shore

Cany143 wrote:

Not a composite. Its simply what was, albeit with the background isolated and modified. Apart from having brought up the shadow areas in 'the subject,' the colors (in the post/rusty thingie) have not been altered.

Very nice.

Linda From Maine Loc: Yakima, Washington

cbtsam wrote:

I took this one a little over three years ago, again focused on the wabi-sabi idea of the beauty of the less than pristine, as we're describing it here...

The fragility of life. Exquisite work.

Linda From Maine Loc: Yakima, Washington

Gauss wrote:

Here's an updated version. Just tweaks as I tend t... (show quote)

Very nice subtle improvements when viewing side by side with the first you posted.

I did think that looked at a bit like a rail bed when I viewed the first time

Linda From Maine Loc: Yakima, Washington

cbtsam wrote:

It's a pretty cool image, Linda. Having the top of the stack of boxes so close to the middle doesn't seem to me to work as well as it might. What would you think of cropping down from the top a bit? Or do you feel that all that hillside is important to your image?

Thank you very much, Sam. I do tend to enjoy the "kitchen sink" images (coined by MinnieV several years ago, I believe) and I was looking for evidence of the burn, so I probably wouldn't like more top cut off. I'll look at the original again, per your suggestion. I cropped out a lot of foreground and a bit of blue sky; let me see what I have to work with

Linda From Maine Loc: Yakima, Washington

Cany143 wrote:

Can't rightly say I had the topic in mind per se, ... (show quote)

Very cool find. I love the background treatment and the composition. This image is something I might run across but struggle to capture an engaging pov. Much to learn from you, Mr. C

cbtsam Loc: Monkton, MD

Linda From Maine wrote:

The fragility of life. Exquisite work.

Thanks so much Linda for your kind comment.

Linda From Maine Loc: Yakima, Washington

ebrunner wrote:

You nailed the feeling of hot, hazy and not very pleasant. I was wondering about the not in its prime aspect of this photo and then it hit me. This shows your town in a way that would not be embraced by the Chamber of Commerce. Makes perfect sense now. This is not our town at its best.
Erich

I was thinking of bad air quality (mostly the smoke) as the relevance to your "Less than Pristine" theme title. I should have a found a photo of a crystal-clear, blue sky location that I took previously, and shot it again during bad air, then posted side by side for a "clearer" message

minniev Loc: MIssissippi

I found this old car and truck graveyard in a village along the coast of Maine. Rusted old vehicles and decaying houses persuade me to process more harshly and more creatively than I would ever process a landscape. I have seen others do the same. Any theories about why that is so? Are you prone to these kinds of creative interventions with decaying things?

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Linda From Maine Loc: Yakima, Washington

minniev wrote:

I found this old car and truck graveyard in a village along the coast of Maine. Rusted old vehicles and decaying houses persuade me to process more harshly and more creatively than I would ever process a landscape. I have seen others do the same. Any theories about why that is so? Are you prone to these kinds of creative interventions with decaying things?

Aside from my abandoned mill, I probably don't take "harsh" far enough with these subjects. For many years, Minnie, your work has been ultra-engaging and instructive.

captivecookie Loc: Washington state

minniev wrote:

I found this old car and truck graveyard in a village along the coast of Maine. Rusted old vehicles and decaying houses persuade me to process more harshly and more creatively than I would ever process a landscape. I have seen others do the same. Any theories about why that is so? Are you prone to these kinds of creative interventions with decaying things?

Absolutely love this work of art. I fully encourage grunge techniques as a method to show the beauty seen in old things as interpreted by the photographer.