Flickr user Oblivious Dude turns Maryland's Homestead Farm into a scene out of an otherworldly western prairie. The high contrast black & white bleaches the ground into dusty looking scrub, while the wide angle distorts reality just enough to throw the viewer off balance. We also love the complementary diagonals of the light spilling from the clouds and the shadow of the building. The empty discarded box in the foreground completes the high lonesome mood. EXIF.
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The standard technique for accomplishing the woodcut look is to shoot through a red filter. Setting your camera to Nightshot and B/W accomplishes a similar effect. You can now turn any mundane scene into a Lynchian nightmare world, minus the backward-talking midget, unless you have one of those lying around.
This one clips out too many of the highlights for my taste. I'd have either cut back the exposure by maybe 2/3 of a stop, or gone for an HDR image. Really, this is a great candidate for HDR, because a lot of details are being clipped on both ends.
I don't see that many clipped highlights or shadows, but BW does tend to be more appealing when there are some pure blacks and whites in the picture. I agree with monkeyerotica that the the picture would benefit from a backward-talking midget.
Most of the road on the right is completely blown out, as is much of the lawn in front of the shack.
Some pure whites and blacks are good, yes, but not vast swatches of them, like on the right side of this photo. It's a good composition, but the execution is not quite there.
Are the trolls out tonight, I can't tell if it's cloudy or bright. . .
So constructive criticism is trolling now? What is this, Stalinist Russia?
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The standard technique for accomplishing the woodcut look is to shoot through a red filter. Setting your camera to Nightshot and B/W accomplishes a similar effect. You can now turn any mundane scene into a Lynchian nightmare world, minus the backward-talking midget, unless you have one of those lying around.
This one clips out too many of the highlights for my taste. I'd have either cut back the exposure by maybe 2/3 of a stop, or gone for an HDR image. Really, this is a great candidate for HDR, because a lot of details are being clipped on both ends.
I don't see that many clipped highlights or shadows, but BW does tend to be more appealing when there are some pure blacks and whites in the picture. I agree with monkeyerotica that the the picture would benefit from a backward-talking midget.
Most of the road on the right is completely blown out, as is much of the lawn in front of the shack.
Some pure whites and blacks are good, yes, but not vast swatches of them, like on the right side of this photo. It's a good composition, but the execution is not quite there.
Are the trolls out tonight, I can't tell if it's cloudy or bright. . .
So constructive criticism is trolling now? What is this, Stalinist Russia?