Wednesday, March 15, 2006
Logging
I hope you can see what sort of picture I was trying to take. Not sure whether I achieved it. Views welcomed.
Permalink / posted by and copyright of Colin [auspiciousdragon.net] : 7:52 PM
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From raw material, through mechanical conversion to wood for commercial use. Is that it? The first thing I saw as the screen opened up was what looked like a TV screen, which leaves the picture with a wider range of interpretations. The things that I like are the subtle colours and tones of the standing trees and the anonymity inherent in the machine by virtue of that 'screen'. As it is a cab, though, one has to see the human as being an unwilling presence: the forest is an alien place away from his human habitat of the urban space. In parallel, the forest can be seen as just another source of raw materials, albeit more sustainable than others.
It is a very interesting picture although the large portion of blurred cut logs is slightly hard on the eye.
A case of can't see the trees for the wood. The little box appearing over the logs is very intriguing and I am wondering what it is. I do, however, find the OOF logs very distracting and is the only thing I really see when first looking at the image. The big white patch at the bottom is the thing my eye is dranw to.
Out of focus foregrounds don't really work do they? In camera, the white patch was intended to mirror the glare from the cab window, but it doesn't work. I have tried toning it down in other versions but it is difficult to get it to look natural.
John E - yes that was the story, although I hadn't seen the cab as a TV. I was on private land when I took this so I spent the next half hour convincing everybody that I was neither malicious nor commercial.
I am sure if we look we can find examples where OoF foregrounds work, I agree this one doesn't. I think it is because the OoF proportion of the image is large and it doesn't recede gently.
The large white chip is very distracting and I didn't make the reflection connection until you mentioned it.
Does the message you wanted to convey come across in the top half of the image?
On Saturday I did a 50Km bike ride and I was about 20Km from home when I saw a forestry vehicle on it's side with all it's logs spilt. I did have a camera in my bum bag but didn't take a picture. Why? I was so knackered if I'd stopped I don't think I'd got going again!
Rex, I hope that you hadn't gone out with the intention of taking photos! Don't cycle so energetically next time!
It can be tricky venturing onto forestry land as ownership is not always benign but suspicion of photography in this age increases.
Rex: yes the photo is better if I crop just above the distracting white blob. I think I still consign it to the bin of 'nice idea, but' though.
Thanks for the comments everybody.
John.
The route I take goes through the New Forest. I am waiting to see if there is a change of attitude now we are a national park. The old attitude was "you don't belong here so **** ***!"
Some years ago a review of cycle routes took them from 143 miles to 26 miles. Some folk me included got upset and there was a partial retreat!
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It is a very interesting picture although the large portion of blurred cut logs is slightly hard on the eye.
John E - yes that was the story, although I hadn't seen the cab as a TV. I was on private land when I took this so I spent the next half hour convincing everybody that I was neither malicious nor commercial.
The large white chip is very distracting and I didn't make the reflection connection until you mentioned it.
Does the message you wanted to convey come across in the top half of the image?
On Saturday I did a 50Km bike ride and I was about 20Km from home when I saw a forestry vehicle on it's side with all it's logs spilt. I did have a camera in my bum bag but didn't take a picture. Why? I was so knackered if I'd stopped I don't think I'd got going again!
It can be tricky venturing onto forestry land as ownership is not always benign but suspicion of photography in this age increases.
Thanks for the comments everybody.
The route I take goes through the New Forest. I am waiting to see if there is a change of attitude now we are a national park. The old attitude was "you don't belong here so **** ***!"
Some years ago a review of cycle routes took them from 143 miles to 26 miles. Some folk me included got upset and there was a partial retreat!