No write up last week as I wasn’t really a big fan of the photo. A bit of a learning lesson. Funny thing was originally I went to Williamstown to take a panorama but then got a photo of the sunset as a bit of a backup shot. Wasn’t really happy with the panorama at first, so went with the backup. In the mean time, I’ve played around with the panorama a bit, and have actually got it looking quite nice (still needs more work), but I may end up putting it up anyway.

Anyway this week was a bit of a surprise (make sure you view it in full size as the thumbnail really loses a lot of the impact of the image).

I was going to make a black and white photo of the dilapidated chook shed in our backyard. I took a couple of photos but wasn’t really happy with them (I was trying to do it quickly too as it was raining slightly), then I took a nice close up off the door and was really happy with the result. I guess this really proves the point of when going out to take photos, make sure you take lots, and lots from different angles to what you had planned – often you will surprise yourself with which photos end up being the strongest.

I think in this case, the main reason why it works, is that it’s cropping out all of the useless information, and filling the frame will all of the interesting part of the shed.

As for post processing, like normal, first thing was adjusting the levels. After that, I actually tried it in black and white, but saw that it worked much better in colour, so from there, I just started playing. I ended up duplicating the image on a second layer and set that to “overlay” which gave a really high contrast effect that I liked. So the way this photo ended up, I guess you could call it “grunge” and a little “artsy” at the same time.

I did consider cropping the grass and paint out of the bottom of the image, but I think ultimately it added to the photo as a bit of subject contrast (old rusty wood and nails compared with nice fresh green grass).

I may end up playing with this photo a bit more in the future to see what I can come up with.