DSS Inventions

ghinson

Any of these jump out at you?

(Thanks for the help.)

tinamarie52

I love 1 and 2. I'd like #1 better with that bit cropped off the bottom.
The wood texture is great and really shows off the invention.

I like the lighting. I wonder what #1 would look like with a very narrow crop so that the only bg is wood. Not sure, but it's so linear, it begs for a more linear crop. (I like geometry, so you can take that with a grain!)

Chris

WhatSheSaw

I agree with Chris again - just the gears against a wood BG in a pano. Maybe a tad brighter so detail in the leftmost gear shows up better.

ghinson

Good idea.

ghinson

"goJogo"

MarkR

It's nice, but I keep expecting the gears to spell out something. Damn you, Google!

ghinson

Ha! I thought the same thing! I was looking for the word "invention". Nope. Not there. I guess it spells "Go Jo Go".

pyroPrints.com

I like #1, but I also like #3, good color.

ic4u

MarkR wrote: »

It's nice, but I keep expecting the gears to spell out something. Damn you, Google!

It does! It spells goJogo, duhrofl

I like it Greg! Old and rusty!

ghinson

OK. Completely reworked the tractor one:

"McCormick Patents"


Add-ons are homemade in PS. Is this OK for the challenges?

travelways

ghinson wrote: »

... Is this OK for the challenges?

I think it's GREAT!

* I would clone out a little of the shadow underneath, where it touches the machine...

PS: I just made an old looking image too

red_zone

I like the cropped gears photo... it might be my monitor, but some of them look a little... soft. It almost makes them look like they're moving.

I like the 2nd McCormick tractor photo done in photoshop, but it shoudn't be hard to change those to actual patent numbers, which are just seven digit numbers, usually with commas. Most of that era are the 1,000,000 or 2,000,000 series. "U.S. Pat. No. 2,432,659" or just "U.S. 2,432,659" or "Pat. 2,432,659" or, in a list like that, "2,432,659"

Sorry, I researched patents every day for four years, I'm just going to have to pick on that.

ghinson

red_zone wrote: »

Sorry, I researched patents every day for four years, I'm just going to have to pick on that.

That's awesome! I completely pulled those numbers out of my, uh, camera bag. Nothing like the real thing. I did find, in a google search, later, the patent decal that came on these tractors (not sure which year though) and, though it is small, could probably list the actual numbers.

GH

ghinson

Oh, and by the way, the gear thing was moving when I took it. Sorting cranberries that were being harvested at a local bog.