Photography Fun

I took this picture at the Kuyper’s ranch over Memorial Day weekend.  The old abandon truck just caught my eye and I wanted to do a black & white with it.

I have always loved the old black & white photos.  I can look at Mom & Dad’s photo albums and old postcards from my grandparent’s days for hours just taking in the detail instead of the color.  I remember my mom taking a photography class when I was a kid and I wanted to take pictures so badly.  Back then the cameras were way to complicated for kids but that just made me want to do it more.  I remember her class did a shoot with black & white film and I thought it was so cool!  I always wanted to take pictures of old barns in black & white.

Of course I am much older now and I adore my digital camera.  I must say that I love my computer more because of the photo manipulation I can do.  Talk about spending hours looking at photos – I can get lost in my thousands of photos I store on my computer.

I had an opportunity to play with this picture of the truck today and here is what I came up with…

All I used was the photo manipulation tools on my blog and I came up with a variety of shots.

Black & white with a little photo paper, crop and tilt

Polaroid anyone?

Sepia – looks like fire in them there hills…

This is with color pop

Emboss

Reflection

Photo Paper with sharpen

Warmed up the color and rounded the edges.  Now it looks like one of those old 110 pictures!

Black & White is still my favorite.  I do think I will dabble in the sepia a bit more now.  Maybe I will someday slow down and stop to take those old barn pictures – sepia would be perfect for that.