Old Farm January 11, 2010 at 21:17
I keep going back to the photos that Jacob and I took at the abandoned farm last year and wishing that we could go back and retake them but, alas, that will not happen. Yes, the farm is still there – it hasn’t been demolished yet. But there are “No Trespassing” signs all over the place so I think that any hope of going back and getting better shots is gone. It’s too bad because I’d driven by there tons of times and it’s a photographer’s dream, whether you’re into HDR or the normal stuff.
When you shoot photos for HDR you have to make sure that there is a lot of contrast. That’s how HDR works and when the contrast isn’t there then you have problems. That’s how it was when we went shooting there. There was enough contrast in the buildings and the overgrown brush but the sky was another story. All the fog had burned off and so all you had was a partially sunny sky. All of my pictures that included sky were horrible.
So, I did a simple little work-around. I simply converted the photo to a sepia tint and added some film grain. It works. It gives it that nostalgic, turn-of-the-century look. The sky still isn’t what I’d like it to be, but I think I like it. It’s much better this way than my original shot.
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