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[mdvaden]

Part of a very old logging machine outside Camp 18 restaurant in Oregon.

Our friend's daughter came with us to this place a few years ago. She is very good. Got small scholarships for photography while in high school. Anyhow, while I only took shots of entire subjects, I noticed at this logging museum restaurant, that she took many photos of parts of things. That was my first awareness of doing that kind of thing. This was a trial shot of mine from there, earlier this year.

Canon S1 ls

[gahspidy]

I like the image. Good composition and sharpness. Gears and sprockets, chains usually make good subjects and this is one. the textures and wear and tear and subtle colors make this appealing. Good shot

[AA20D]

I like this photo alot as well, with one exception: that open partial circle on the right keeps dragging my attention right out of the photo. I would like to see a tighter crop on the right...closer to the chain. Otherwise, great shot.

[Seb]

Part of a very old logging machine outside Camp 18 restaurant in Oregon.

Our friend's daughter came with us to this place a few years ago. She is very good. Got small scholarships for photography while in high school. Anyhow, while I only took shots of entire subjects, I noticed at this logging museum restaurant, that she took many photos of parts of things. That was my first awareness of doing that kind of thing. This was a trial shot of mine from there, earlier this year.

Canon S1 ls

Hello,

I too like your shot. I think that it's a good subject and I like the lighting. However, I get a tad distracted by the area of vegetation at the right. Perhaps, I am abusing of it, but I have a natural attraction for square crops and I have tought that it would suit the scene well so here is my take.

I have also boosted contrasts a little and applied a very slight unsharp mask to display the nice textures on the gear. I hope that you don't mind my few manipulations. I see them as slight adjustment to take the best out of a fundamentaly good photograph, not the other way arround....

Seb

[Chunk]

I agree with the others about the green area being a distraction and at first I thought that the chain would be better offcenter some. I played with cropping but thought the image lost too much when cropping off the right side or left. I thought the best outcome might be full frame but select the green area and partially desaturate it so that it no longer grabs the attention so much.

[readingr]

I like all of the photos here. The Green doesn't bother me at all, in fact the circle adds an extra geometrical aspect that increases the depth of the photo.

However, I like it tightly cropped as well.

I think the colours and the used look carries this photo almost regardless of the crop.

Excellent lets see more

[mdvaden]

Sure is fun to play with, isn't it?

Now that you mention it, the unfocused green does look out of place, and the saturation adjustment provided did look better.

Too bad there was not greenery growing through the circular opening.

[jackthegreenrat]

I like the composition of this shot - the repeating of the circles is pretty cool.
Also like the textures on the chain.
But something about the colours of this shot just didn't gel for me...the colours look a little washed out. Maybe it would be good to either reshoot the photo in the late evening when the colours will be richer (especially the rust-red of the chain) and the shadows deeper - or convert it to a grayscale image? The latter would also take care of any decisions about destaurating that green area...

[mdvaden]

jackthegreenrat...

Other than camera adjustments, one option might be doing it on a day that's not cloudy. This restaurant is near the Oregon Coast and it's often foggy or cloudy; as was the case with this image.

Better natural light may help. The equipment sits in the weather outside, so the finish of all that old logging stuff is a bit faded to start with.

I'lll probably have 20 versions of this one thing before another full year draws to an end.