A few of my favorite shots from the photo shoot.
Wagon Hitch
I wanted to take a picture of this wagon that wouldn’t be like all the other pictures my group was taking. I placed the handle on the left third to keep it interesting and get some of the sky on the right side of the picture.
Broken wheel
There is a story behind this wheel. I imagine that it was already a pretty bad day, and then the wheel of the families wagon breaks. They put it in the back yard so that they can fix it later. Then life gets ahead of them, and they forget all about it. I added some warmer temperature colors to this picture. I also tinted it towards green. By decreasing the highlights and shadows I was able to bring more of the focus to the wheel and away from the right side of the image.
Hotel view
Although this has a look as though it was heavily edited, all I actually did to it was increase the saturation and exposure. Then I decreased the highlights and lights and increased the darks and shadows. The blues are as real as can be. I realize that it is dark, but this is intentional. The darkness gives it a kind of realistic point of view in that it is an old building with no electric lighting.
Black and White
Oil can in black and white
I cropped this picture so that it did not include as much unnecessary content. I straightened it a bit so that it did not seem lopsided to the viewer. I had to play with the shadows, blacks and whites so that you could still see the detail in the can and so that the outside was not so overwhelming.
Stove
They made stoves so much more attractive back in the days. Look at the detail. By making the image black and white and decreasing the shadows we can see more detail in the shadows of the window.
Sepia
Sepia wheelbarrow
This was a fitting picture to put in sepia since it has an old rusty wheelbarrow, and tree. There is a way in Lightroom to make the image black and white, and then change the color from black to a hue of any color. I used a yellow in the photo above, and more of a red-orange in the photo below.
Cool old picks
A true mining town must have plenty of picks in it. How else would they dig up the gold?