I'm going to start this thread and add to it over time.
These were some of the first shots I took...saw this old tilted farmhouse on the side of the road....
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I'm going to start this thread and add to it over time.
These were some of the first shots I took...saw this old tilted farmhouse on the side of the road....
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2564/...001410a8_o.jpg
I love the feel of this shot Casil. Very nice indeed.
Here's another one...the cloud formations were totally unreal today!
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2622/...025e2ba4_o.jpg
This is my friend's fathers first truck. It's a 1939 Dodge truck. I took many shots of it for him. I quite like how this first one turned out.
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2746/...3bb7a5e5_o.jpg
Here it is again in BW
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2565/...1b234e41_o.jpg
Love the cloud shot Casil! I tried from F.C.P. but 28 mm just won't do it from that close.
So when you said '48 Ford ... you really meant '39 Dodge huh? ;) Great old truck.
I love that cloud shot too. I didn't realize how crooked the horizons were in Canada :)
Yes...Horizons are indeed crooked when looking upwards towards a hill. ;)Quote:
Originally Posted by Mad Aussie
Here's the shot with a straight horizon...in Canada the telephone poles are crooked...lol! ;)
You are off to a great start.. can't wait to see more.
An old thresher on the prairie landscape.
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2564/...3e4fc873_o.jpg
I'd rather a bent pole than a crooked horizon :) Looks much better.
That combine harvester shot is cool!
Okay how about a straight horizon and a straighter pole!
You have a strange idea of straight/level Lisa but I see you are learning to use a tool to correct the distortion ... cool!!
A couple more from yesterday...The landscape out here amazing IMO...I love it!
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So many good shots Lisa! Congratulations and thanks for sharing them here.
We had awesome clouds.....
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Wow! :clap:Quote:
Originally Posted by casil403
Thanks Ig...It was so weird..everywhere we went a different phot op was waiting for us to show up.
Pat and I were high 5'ing each other all day...lol!
That may simply have been the fact that you are a lot better at seeing them then you used to be ;)Quote:
Originally Posted by casil403
Great work, casil. The shot of the silos with the converging lines is wonderful as well as the shot beneath it of the bails of hay in the open field. The clouds you've captured aren't too shabby, either. :highfive:
I really like this set casil - many wonderful images here:highfive:
Gosh thanks folks...you are all kind. :)
The main reason we went out was to capture Walter's (Pat's Dad) first vehicle. I thought for some reason he said '49 ford but it was a '39 dodge
It was sitting on the farm amidst an old pontiac and some old farming machinery. I took shots form almost every angle imaginable and had him open up the door for a few shots inside. We went to visit his 85yo mother who lives in a retirement community in the nearby town.When she was the photos she told me stories about how she used to drive it. I think it brought back some great memories for her. :)
I just processed this image for him and evenutally I am going to put them all on a disk and give it to him to have.....is it okay? I think he wants a few BW shots as well as he asked me about them.
I will probably end up giving this to him as an Xmas present also so please let me have your critiques even though not in the crit section.
Thank you all so much for your kindness and helpfulness again.:thankyou:
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Any critique I might provide on this one would only make you start gilding the lily. Others with more experience may see something that I don't but I'd print it. In fact, if you are giving something like this as a present, I'd print it big. Forget 8x12 or even 16x24, I'd go at least to the 24x36 range
The converging lines between the truck and the combine head. The well exposed cloud cover, etc., etc. make a fine photo. Good eye and great capture.
Very cool in B&W!
Ditto!Quote:
Originally Posted by Barefoot
Here's another angle of Walter's '39. My friend is watching my flickr posts and is quite estatic with the results so far! :)
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2587/...68c2901c_o.jpg
Looks like your day went fantastic! Nice Shots!
Casil what an absolutely gorgeous set of photos, all are so very well done. I think you did a great series, they all fit and flows like they belong with each other. Nice. Now you just need to print them, frame them and find someone an establishment like a local market, restaurant, gallery and show them as a set, I am sure you would be able to sell some.
Wonderful!
Thanks so much for the encouragement AL...Your suggestions helped contribute to a successful day. Thanks too TI.
A few more shots from the day. Pat's farm is located in Torrington, about an hour and 1/2 north and a bit east of Calgary. Pat's hobby is Ironman Triathalons and he has spent many an hour training on these roads so when I spoke with him about a photo shoot, he was more than ready to take me out to view the scenery he sees when out on his road bike.
Pat's Mum lives in 3-Hills which is about a 20 minute drive further east from the farm. 3 Hills is name dfor exactly that reason...there are 3 prominent hills on the prairie landscape.
When viisiting his Mum, she suggested i try a shot of the local campground as it looked so lonely and empty she thought it might make a great photo. I took this for her:
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2619/...806c0740_o.jpg
On the way to visit his Mum, we stopped at 2 places...one was an old school house and family cemetary located on Kneehill. A few of the headstones are dated as far back as 1858! All the same family is buried here.
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Further on the way we stopped at a local lake called Keiver Lake...I guess it's quite a popular picnic/camping spot in the summertime. Right now it's covered in ice.
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2724/...f878cfa0_o.jpg
Holy Crap Casil, these are wonderful shots!!! :1st::1st::1st::1st:
And just for something different ... the last one has a crooked horizon :evil2:
You really have stepped up with this project Lisa. Amazing how uncertain you were yet how confident we were ... and now look at the results! A photo is worth a thousand words ;)
Funny, I use the leveling tool (the ruler and the line drawn on the horizon then the program levels it) in lightroom so I dunno what's going on. :confused:Quote:
Originally Posted by Mad Aussie
Thanks for the kind words MA...funny I remember being so frustrated earlier in the year about this whole photography stuff. Feels kinda good to see the things I took when I first got the camera and to have it culminate in this project.
Everyone on this forum has all been so very helpful and kind with your support,advice and encouragement and I am just so happy to be here. :thankyou:
Pat took me down to show me an old car grave yard in a clump of aspen right behind and to the right where the old dodge truck was. His Mum said the vehicles were already there when they bought the farm back in 1969.
It was amazing to see all these old cars and trucks just sitting there. I think all the parts for the green one are there too as Pat started pulling fenders and other stuff out of the grass and putting them in a pile. I hope some of them are restorable someday? There was also a 50's type chevy there but it was really beat up. :)
I HDR'd all of these.
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More WOW here :1st:Quote:
Originally Posted by Iguanasan
Corkscrew Mountain, Alberta Forestry Trunk Road.
A few more shots from the day:
Red barn in the coulee...
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2732/...fb525ac4_o.jpg
Old Carstairs Community Hall...now filled with pigeons:
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Another old farm truck:
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The old red schoolhouse located on Pat's farm..I love that it still has the original paint on it:
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2539/...b7b72e51_b.jpg
Another schoolhouse with the original windows...I thought about removing the dirt in PS but it just didn't seem right so I left it. IMO it adds to the patina of the window.
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2713/...ffc7a947_b.jpg
gosh Casil, I am surprised that you are not studying to be a professional photographer!
Love the school house pics!
Gee thanks B! :)
OTA is enough right now thanks....:D
Here's another one with a bit of a story behind it:
So we're out driving and slowly heading back to the #2 to go back to Calgary and one of the final stops on the way Pat wants to show me is this Carstairs Community hall. it has a pretty neat Ukranian type spire on the top of it (I'm not quite there yet in processing....lol).
As I'm photographing this, an older man pulls up in his truck and asks what we are doing...we introduce ourselves and Pat starts up a conversation while I continue taking shots. The man is intently interested in the photography and suggests that about a mile and a bit down the crossooad there's this really neat old schoolhouse still in pretty good shape with the barn still up behind it. He explained that when he was a kid he used to go to the school and the barn was for the kids who rode to school on their horses so they could shelter them in the barn while they were at school. We followed him until he turned off to his farm and then continued on. I want to stop by his house at a later date and give him a photo I think or get Pat to do it for me. I think he would like it... :)
We decided to go and have a gander. It definitely was a memorable day of adventures!
Here's what I came up with:
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2759/...e65acdc3_o.jpg