Frozen Timbers

[cadcamslave]

Pile of frozen, busted up rail road ties. Had to stand to get it, to get all the bushes and sticks out of the way.

[Bambi]

I really like this!!!

[tomorrowstreasures]

interesting!

[Mad Aussie]

Learning to eliminate the distractions is a big step up there CCS! Nice.

[cadcamslave]

Learning to eliminate the distractions is a big step up there CCS! Nice.

Man, I was expecting to get taken to the mats for this one...

Learning, learning, learning how to learn.

[Mad Aussie]

Man, I was expecting to get taken to the mats for this one...

Learning, learning, learning how to learn.
We don't want to crush your spirit and enthusiasm mate ;)

But ok ... I think the composition in general is a bit weak ... there's nothing that really strikes me and hold my attention here. But I wasn't going to mention this as I was pleased to see you eliminate a featureless sky and tell us how you also eliminated foreground distractions as well.

To improve this I would have shot from the side more and focused more on one of the logs with some frost on them or something and allow the others to fade into the blur to create a contrast to the featured log(s).

[cadcamslave]

We don't want to crush your spirit and enthusiasm mate ;)

But ok ... I think the composition in general is a bit weak ... there's nothing that really strikes me and hold my attention here. But I wasn't going to mention this as I was pleased to see you eliminate a featureless sky and tell us how you also eliminated foreground distractions as well.

To improve this I would have shot from the side more and focused more on one of the logs with some frost on them or something and allow the others to fade into the blur to create a contrast to the featured log(s).

Thats what I am looking for.

So pick out an interesting detail, focus on that and use a wide aperture?

[Mad Aussie]

thats what i am looking for.

So pick out an interesting detail, focus on that and use a wide aperture?
exactly!!

[cadcamslave]

exactly!!

Next time we get a good hoar frost, I will do exactly that.

I am going to bring a ladder so I can cross the blackberry bush and have my way with the pile.

[Mad Aussie]

:) Make sure you alone ... someone might think having your way with a pile could be a tad perverted ;)

[Mad Aussie]

Hey .. .I think it's cool you are looking at mundane subjects and scenes and striving to portray them in an interesting way. It's a tough way to learn but a very good way!!

[cadcamslave]

Hey .. .I think it's cool you are looking at mundane subjects and scenes and striving to portray them in an interesting way. It's a tough way to learn but a very good way!!

I cant even put into words how much being here is helping change my thinking and how I look at things now.

I hope the fun for you all will be watching me apply that which you have taught, and help me grow to get some really good pictures.

In my 32 years in the machinist trade I have had maybe 50 apprentices (apprenti in our vernacular) and of those 3 or 4 really wanted to learn and turned out to be damned fine machinists. To the point that when their skills and desire to excel grew out past the shop we were in they came to me first to tell me they were quitting and moving on, to which I gave my blessing and glowing recommendations to the new employer. To me it was selfish on my part (and a boost to my ego) to put out a great machinist, and I was not easy on them. The ones you have to be easy on will never be anything but mediocre.

[Mad Aussie]

I cant even put into words how much being here is helping change my thinking and how I look at things now.

I hope the fun for you all will be watching me apply that which you have taught, and help me grow to get some really good pictures.

In my 32 years in the machinist trade I have had maybe 50 apprentices (apprenti in our vernacular) and of those 3 or 4 really wanted to learn and turned out to be damned fine machinists. To the point that when their skills and desire to excel grew out past the shop we were in they came to me first to tell me they were quitting and moving on, to which I gave my blessing and glowing recommendations to the new employer. To me it was selfish on my part (and a boost to my ego) to put out a great machinist, and I was not easy on them. The ones you have to be easy on will never be anything but mediocre.
I hear ya!!

[casil403]

This might also work in BW....I think you might be able to get some better contrasts in monochrome. I also think you can get a better close up as MA stated. That or angle it off to the side a bit more so it's not quite so centered. :)
I would so be all over this trying to get every angle possible and playing with depth of field as well.

[Tefnut 7]

We.......I rather like this shot.....sort of like the mental chaos which the season sometimes brings to mind :)

But....it's no' very sharp, laddie.........Robert.....actually, let me show ye sharp.....this is ma wee cat....taken with a 3mp p/s Fuji a few years ago.....