The Farm Equipment Series ( HDR )

jstpeter

I spent the weekend out at a farm and spent a day shooting some of the idle farm equipment. Some looked as if it had not been moved for several years. Love to hear your thoughts.

CWSkopec

JS,
The 3rd one is awesome!! Perfect shot for this style of HDR!!
And I really like the 1st one too.

The 2nd and 4th confuse me eye though... I think it's that the shallow depth of field combined with this style is "overloading" my eyes and they just can't figure out where to look.

cjmchch

The 1st is pristene, just lovely and a very well balanced HDR. The others are also good and it's interesting to note that it seems the degree of HDR tone generates further as the series goes on. Great shots and thanks for sharing.

R.Jay

I really like #2 & #3 - very good composition and processing.

Cheers, Richard.

kdog

Great subjects for HDR, and I love the concept. I like 1 and 3 a lot. Well done. Otherwise I agree with CWSkopec. Shallow depth of field (or whatever is causing the blurriness) and HDR don't quite mix on the other ones.

Cheers,
-joel

jstpeter

Thanks everyone. I guess the shallow DOF did not quite work on #4 Oh well that is why I like getting critiques, and I do see what you all are talking about.

CJ - nice observation but the level of HDR increasing in the series is not intentional just happened to end up by the way I posted. Every HDR I process is done individually I very rarely use custom presets becasue the subject and light tend to effect how far I go on the HDR.

Skippy

jstpeter wrote:

I spent the weekend out at a farm and spent a day shooting some of the idle farm equipment. Some looked as if it had not been moved for several years. Love to hear your thoughts.

I like the #3rd image HDR and rust go well together.
... Skippy
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