Visited a friend in Capitol Hill quite a few years ago. The area was being slowly gentrified at the time but there were houses where the residents, I assume, had no money and the roofs were just caving in. Nothing romantic about those living conditions.
You should try it before you jump to such conclusions.
One could also say walking into something like Bantiff, Yellow Stone, or Isle of Skye and all that beauty is easy to capture, but its not easy to make a good photograph.
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Fair point. Yeah, easy wasnât the best way to put it. Rather than skill, I think I meant that the emotions are more easily evoked as in the:
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More easily evoked⌠Than what?
Than, say, an intact, non-picturesque building
In Scotland, it tends to be a lack of residents, rather than a lack of money. There are places which were probably bustling when agriculture was a large employer of people. Now those people are gone, and little remains to keep buildings in use.
This is near Ardachu in Sutherland.
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That happens some where I live, but in a more rural setting itâs cars, trucks, tractors, farm implements, trailers, large industrial-scale hardware supplies⌠you name it. Theyâre left out in a field, on the side of the road or even a front yard, and donât move for years / decades. They just rust in place with the growth overtaking them. Farms in particular seem to make no effort to clean up nor dispose of obsolete equipment. Maybe the margins are so low that itâs cost prohibitive to get old stuff disposed.
For the rest of us, though, the end result is like living in a big scrap yard. Thereâs always a piece of junk cluttering up the area.
Iâm not the most industrious person ever (certainly not when it comes to yard work, I just mow the grass) but Iâve never understood how someone could live for years in a house and leave the yard full of scrap and trash.
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Completely agreed. For me there are no feelings to be had here but disgust at the trash people leave lying around. Itâs a completely different feeling coming by a derelict building or one or two pieces of old farm equipment compared to hundreds and all around.
Thatâs fairly common here. Striking difference between the idealised rural image and the reality of rusting equipment and plastic detritus that makes up many farms.
I can see that I need to go out and take some pictures to demonstrate this, but the same can be said of small fishing ports.
True!
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Fantastic studies of light. Well done!
Picked an area on Google Maps last night and headed out to try to beat the sun this morning.
Got out to the area in good time but quickly found out that it was going to be a bit more challenging to get a great composition than I thought.
Hiked up a hill hoping to find rolling hills and instead found a treeline and a wide valley bottom instead. With the sun rising quickly I scrambled around attempting to get as much depth as I couldâŚsnapped many frames in a few different spots, and hereâs one of the edits. darktable three frame HDR merge, crop, color adjustments, contrast eq, d&s , tone eq, and some other tweaks.
Iâm still quite partial to using the uniform blend mode, and I gotta say that it is quite strong (comparatively) in these hdr merge images.
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