Rural Landscapes

[dpc]

Prairie pothole with assorted geese and ducks. 'Misty' effect. Vignetting is intentional.

 

[dpc]

field with bales

 

[DominoDude]

field with bales

Oh hay, a bale!
Looks like home. A really pleasant photo, and I don't know what you are doing to the colours but I love it. Feels like it mimics a film sort I once used - something like a Fujifilm as Velvia, Reala or Provia.

 

[dpc]

field with bales

Oh hay, a bale!
Looks like home. A really pleasant photo, and I don't know what you are doing to the colours but I love it. Feels like it mimics a film sort I once used - something like a Fujifilm as Velvia, Reala or Provia.

Thanks. Pretty typical scene where I live. Maybe a bit more hilly than you usually get around here . Can't help with the colour processing. I took the picture several years ago.

 

[DominoDude]

field with bales

Oh hay, a bale!
Looks like home. A really pleasant photo, and I don't know what you are doing to the colours but I love it. Feels like it mimics a film sort I once used - something like a Fujifilm as Velvia, Reala or Provia.

Thanks. Pretty typical scene where I live. Maybe a bit more hilly than you usually get around here . Can't help with the colour processing. I took the picture several years ago.

Okidoky. We can call it "digital patina" then - something the file has collected over those years without us knowing how/why.

 

[TeenTog]

First Photo: Dilapidated Barn near the Illinois-Wisconsin Border

Second: Tractor light & lens flare in an old barn located in Delevan, Illinois. I personally like this type of lens flare, however "improper" it is

 

[dpc]

An abandoned farm house. This was shot by my dad circa 1979 with a film camera using Kodachrome slide film. Either a Nikon FE or Canon AE-1. I'm unsure which since he owned both. I've changed it into monochrome because I think it works better. I also boosted the clarity a bit in Intensify Pro to provide more texture. I've included the picture with and without the clarity boost.

 

[dpc]

Warning at end of grid road

 

[Valvebounce]

Hi dpc.
Nice shot. For those of us with no idea please could you explain a grid road, and what the warning means.
Thanks.

Cheers, Graham.

Warning at end of grid road

 

[dpc]

Hi dpc.
Nice shot. For those of us with no idea please could you explain a grid road, and what the warning means.
Thanks.

Cheers, Graham.

Warning at end of grid road

Thanks, Graham. A grid road (at least where I live, in western Canada) is a rural road that follows the lines of the original land survey. They serve local farm traffic (and increasingly oil field traffic where I live) and might be considered tertiary arteries, I suppose. They are usually dirt with a gravel cover. The warning sign in the picture signals an end to the road. It may seem obvious in the photograph but it is not obvious in reality. The sign in the picture is on a rise just over a paved road that runs at right angles to the grid road. Thus, a person unfamiliar with the grid road might assume that it continues over the rise when it does not.

 

[Valvebounce]

Thanks dpc.
The scenery behind the sign looks somewhat like a grown over road, one boundary slightly left of the sign, the other further left and more prominent, darker stripe, I would imagine that would easily entrap the unwary traveler!

Cheers, Graham.

Hi dpc.
Nice shot. For those of us with no idea please could you explain a grid road, and what the warning means.
Thanks.

Cheers, Graham.

Warning at end of grid road

Thanks, Graham. A grid road (at least where I live, in western Canada) is a rural road that follows the lines of the original land survey. They serve local farm traffic (and increasingly oil field traffic where I live) and might be considered tertiary arteries, I suppose. They are usually dirt with a gravel cover. The warning sign in the picture signals an end to the road. It may seem obvious in the photograph but it is not obvious in reality. The sign in the picture is on a rise just over a paved road that runs at right angles to the grid road. Thus, a person unfamiliar with the grid road might assume that it continues over the rise when it does not.

 

[dpc]

Assorted geese in a prairie pond.

 

[dpc]

Abandoned barn

 

[DominoDude]

Abandoned barn

Oh mucho niceo, dpc! If people don't look at that at full size they are really losing out on all details in the roof.

 

[FEBS]

Abandoned barn

Very sharp picture. Which lens did you use?

 

[dpc]

Abandoned barn

Oh mucho niceo, dpc! If people don't look at that at full size they are really losing out on all details in the roof.

Thanks!

 

[dpc]

Abandoned barn

Very sharp picture. Which lens did you use?

Thanks! I used a Canon 70-300mm f/4-5.6 L IS USM lens on a 5D Mark II. It is an excellent lens, although it may have to surrender pride of place to the 100-400 Mark II. Time will tell. The camera settings, if you're interested were:

ISO = 400
Focal length = 124mm
EV = 0.7
Aperture setting = f/11
Shutter speed = 1/640 second

 

[dpc]

Abandoned settler's farmstead in south-western Saskatchewan. I've given it a bit of a vintage look in Perfect Enhance 9.

 

[FEBS]

Thanks! I used a Canon 70-300mm f/4-5.6 L IS USM lens on a 5D Mark II. It is an excellent lens, although it may have to surrender pride of place to the 100-400 Mark II. Time will tell. The camera settings, if you're interested were:

ISO = 400
Focal length = 124mm
EV = 0.7
Aperture setting = f/11
Shutter speed = 1/640 second

Thanks very much DPC,

indeed that 70-300 seems to be a very sharp lens.

 

[dpc]

1. Truck tracks through field.
2. Abandoned school at Netherhill, Saskatchewan.
3. Abandoned homestead near Smiley, Saskatchewan.