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I have been privileged to be able to shoot around a place where my father was brought up through knowing the owner of the farmer. After been giving "freedo...
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I have been privileged to be able to shoot around a place where my father was brought up through knowing the owner of the farmer. After been giving "freedom" to shoot whatever I want on the Farm, came across this abandoned vehicle. At one stage is its life, someone's pride and joy, but sadly Mother nature has taken ownership of the vehicle now. Not sure what make or model it is as no badges visible
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Location
This was taken on a farm which my late father grew up on and my grandparents worked on this Dairy farm for around 30 years until the mid to late 1970's. I had visited the farm to undertake a project for my HND in Photography about memories that I had growing up, and found out the farm is STILL in the same families hands that had it when my grandparents were there. I had some old pictures from when I was younger and wondering where they were taken from. So after a tour from the owner and reminicing about the farm, and after the images I had captured, I was allowed to roam the farm and came across this old car.Time
I had arranged to meet the owner around 1pm, and by the time of the tour, and shooting the images I needed, must've been around 2:30 ish when I got arouond to this car. Naturally, I had took the car from all different angles to ensure I had at least 1 "good image".Lighting
The lighting was pretty flat on the day, as It was a typical Scottish Spring day. Although I was fortunate with the clouds in the sky, I was those that I think makes it a better image than what it should be.Equipment
Nothing special, just an 18-55 mm kit lens and my Nikon D610. I had a tripod for the shots earlier in the day, and kept using it for this shot. Set at it's lowest setting, no flash or any additional lighting. I also used a cable shutter release to operate the camera, as I had done for the other shots. Rather than disconnect the cable, I decided to leave it connectedInspiration
I knew if I could get the right angle and right editing, it would be a good shot. There are times when I'm in the field shooting and, without knowing what I'm going for, just see something that looks interesting. These are the types of trips that I enjoy taking as I never know what I'll come home with.Editing
I only use Lightroom, so everything I did was in there. I started of with the white balance change to cloudy (as I felt that gave the best feel) then the usual exposure and contrast adjustments, which were very minimal looking back on the original edit. The highlights/whites and shadows/darks, followed by the clarity adjustment, was next, again with a few subtle changes. Then the hardest part, boosting the colours in the HSL/Colour to make them look realistic. Like most people, I move EVERY slider fully both ways to gauge how far I should push (or reduce) them. Once I saw the desired effect that I was looking for, I stopped. Don't get me wrong, I didn't use ALL the sliders as most didn't have any effect on the overall image. I enabled Profile Correction and Removed Chromatic Aberration before sharpening and exportingIn my camera bag
For this trip, all I had was my D610, my 18-55mm Kit lens and my sigma 70-300 Macro lens. I had already decided that I didn't need any lighting as I had visited several times over the week before to see the postion of the sun in relation to where I was needing to shoot.Feedback
It's very tempting to shoot from eye level as it's easier and less troublesome, along with using the shutter button instead of a shutter release, however I think on this occassion it actually benefited me. That was because it allowed me focus on the composition to ensure I ceated the best image I could. Sometimes it's just about being in the right place at the right time to capture something amazing. Other times is about planning everything down to the smallest detail and just hoping Mother Nature is nice to you. Whatever you try to shoot, persevere and try shooting under different conditions. The light wasn't that great, but I knew that as long as I had the base image, I would be able to create something as good as I did.
