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No More Milk
Started April 13, 2009 @ 8:47pm by Dan Seurer
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Dan Seurer
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| No More Milk | April 13, 2009 @ 8:47pm | Old barns are great photo topics. As photogenic as they are, they often hide poignent reminders of what is truly being lost. This barn, with its abandoned stanchons, will no longer hold cows for the family farmer to milk. Filled with debris and other jetsam of abandonment, they are sad reminders of a rapidly disappearing way of life.
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RickT
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| April 14, 2009 @ 12:15am | Dan, the dimly lit interior of this barn seem custom designed for your B&W treatment. If the rails on those milking stalls are stainless steel or aluminum, it might also be interesting to have a color shot with somewhat increased exposure, to let the still-shiny metal contrast with the dark beams and debris. Nicely envisioned and framed!
RickT
Boulder, Colorado
http://www.flickr.com/photos/rwteichler/
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Wes
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| April 14, 2009 @ 6:57am | It is very sad that progress leaves us with these ghost barns. I can still feel all of the activity that use to go on in this dark space. Wonderful B/W. Love the lighting pattern.
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Flo
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| April 14, 2009 @ 7:20am | Lovely B&W shot - but like Rick and Wes, it makes me feel sad that we've practically lost this way of life. I agree that if you shot this in color, how about working on the color version, too?
Flo - PPY
"May we live in peace without weeping. May our joy outline the lives we touch without ceasing. And may our love fill the world, angel wings beating." aziza
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5centcigar
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| percepual milk | April 14, 2009 @ 9:28pm | I love shadows blown to black for impact, but I think it is taken a bit too far here.
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Dan Seurer
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| April 16, 2009 @ 11:11am | Thanks for all the comments/suggestions. THis place has really kept hanunting me. I need to go back and explore this more photographically before this old barn and associated abandoned farm house succumb to the bulldozer.
I purposely went black and white for the emotional impact that I was trying to get at. Color just wasnt cutting it, and the usual sepia tones do were softening it to much.
The comments on the excessively dark tones are well taken. It is the effect I was trying to get at. There was little light except for the sunlight hitting the stanchons and a bit of bounce flash. However, the web based image shown here is a bit darker than on my original. On larger versions of the image, there is actually a bit more detail in the darks. |
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5centcigar
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| milk | April 16, 2009 @ 7:00pm | You know, I started to mention that there might well be detail in those shadows in your original. I should have.
This happens to me plenty.....both on dumbed down web images and crappy prints...subtle details in shadows lost. |
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