Click the thumbnail to see today's photo taken in Paint Rock, Texas during the hour from 12:00 to 1:00 when the County Clerk's office was closed.
The editing consisted of making this detail of the original photo:
look like this instead:
Pretty minor change, I admit, but the utility poles were a bit of a distraction.
Kent,
I focused in on the change in contrast more than the absence of the power poles. The lightened shading complimented the photo, in my opinion, much more than the removal of the offending poles.
Of course, I still think my cell phone takes wonderful photos, so, what do I really know?
Until you mentioned it I did not even notice the power poles.
Your photo editing software killed the detail in the second image and somewhat killed your D.O.F.
> I focused in on the change in contrast more than the absence of the power poles. The lightened shading complimented the photo, in my opinion, much more than the removal of the offending poles.
Alan, are you sure that it isn't the fact of looking at both images at slightly different angles on the same monitor that is changing the apparent lightness of the image?
> Until you mentioned it I did not even notice the power poles.
Bryan, were you focusing on the line half a chain offset from them?
> Your photo editing software [...] somewhat killed your D.O.F.
Yes, but it brought the eye back to the two sheds that framed the view. That whole photo (the whole scene) for me is about the way that the space flows around that long shed rather than running directly to some destination.
A photo from Chesaw, WA
since we're looking at old buildings, thought I would lob one in from the highlands of Okanogan County, WA. Taken last fall. Very slight editing (kicked up the contrast a bit). This is a pic which could tell a story, or you could imagine one about it.
This car went down MaryAnne Creek Road back in about 1952. Never made it to the Chesaw Tavern. Everybody bailed and ran for the Canadian border, which is the treeline in the background. Nice car, eh?
Kent,
I suppose you're correct and it is the slightly altered angles at which the photos are observed that resulted in the lighter shading.
For a moment, I thought you were a genius. 🙂
A photo from Chesaw, WA
> This car went down MaryAnne Creek Road back in about 1952.
I'm thinking that's a '53 Chevy wagon.
A photo from Chesaw, WA
Kent, '53 is probably 'bout right for that car. I have no idea when it might have come to rest in front of that old homestead, but to this day it's still sitting there waiting for its previous occupants to return. My hunch is they left in a hurry.
The scene conjures up all sorts of possible story lines. That part of the county has always been the scene of scandalous backwoods behavior. Back in prohibition days, those hills along the border were crawlin' with rum-runners. Later on, the hilltopper distilleries went into production and kept the revenooers plenty busy chasing the miscreants up into British Columbia.
Even today, nothing much has changed up there on that mountain. Aided by the remote location, certain goods still cross that border under cover of darkness. However, the nature of those goods has changed somewhat.
BC
A photo from Chesaw, WA
Bill;
I had a 54 chevy wagon like that in the early 90's for awhile..
I traded it for a wooden skiff a little later on.
I had a friend who would take pictures in B/W of scenes like that of old cars and old farm machinery rustin' out and then she would hand tint the cars etc to contrast with the B?W image. nice stuff.
The colors /hues of the wagon in your picture is very similar to what she hand tinted. So you can just imagine everything else B/W.
Of course, Kent would eradicate the PP. 🙂
A photo from Chesaw, WA
> Of course, Kent would eradicate the PP.
No, you'd want to move the pole so that it looked as if the Chevy had run into it. Perhaps it was an early GIS effort that had gone wrong. :>
A photo from Chesaw, WA
Robert, one of the reasons I took that photo (besides the scene itself) was because the colors looked hand-tinted, even in real life. The sky was slightly overcast which is why it looks white in the background. Had that been a typical Okanogan Highlands blue-sky autumn afternoon, the colors would have been almost too bright, and since it was mid-day the light would have been too high if it was full sun. As I mentioned, the only edit was to tweak up the contrast a bit, which I did simply with MS Picture Manager, and in retrospect probably should have left it be.
Although its the only object which doesn't entirely suit the scene, I decided to leave the PP right where it is.
Photo was taken on September 20, which at that latitude (48.9999°N) and elevation (4000') is just a few weeks away from first snowfall. The quaking aspens still had green leaves, but you can see from the colors of the wild grass and pigweed that autumn was already in full sway.
This is the country where my Dad first started teaching me the art and science of land surveying, beginning when I was about 10 years old. I must have dragged that 200' steel chain and bushwhacked over miles of that countryside before he started letting me run the instrument (1908 Gurley mountain transit) a few years later. After high school, I left this county for 30 years, worked world-wide, and now I am back home again. Couldn't imagine a better place to be, and I've seen a few. Everywhere you turn in this district there are similar photo opportunities. It's a target-rich environment.
BC
Finally playing with Photoshop Elements? Neat pic!
A photo from Chesaw, WA
Bill:
It is a very nice picture that you made. (southern expression)
The format and colors are perfect.
In a strange perverse surreal way it is reminiscent to me of the painting by Andrew Wyeth called Chistina.
The paraplegic girl in the field gazing at home or direction.
> Finally playing with Photoshop Elements? Neat pic!
Thanks, Julie, but in the interest of full disclosure I have to say that editing was done with MSPaint. I haven't installed Elements yet.
Those panoramas look pretty cool printed about 6" x 24" and mounted on 1/2 in. black Gator board with no margins. You can just hang the board directly on the wall.
I love the panoramas, we have an old photo repro of the famous Horseshoe Curve in Altoona, PA that we need to frame.
