Sixteen Tons

Gallery: POP PhotosPosted February 16, 2012767 views8 comments

I'm currently working on a series of photographs which portray people in their working lives as they toil in every day jobs. Jobs, that most of us rarely think about. As I work on the series, I'm gaining far more admiration for the butchers, the bakers, the candlestick makers, the shoe cobblers, the car washers, and in this case, the operators of heavy equipment.
This man was moving tons of rocks debris with a giant piece of equipment.
I took the image quite a while back when I was meandering around the back streets in an industrial section of Las Vegas.
I reprocessed the image using CS5 and NIK software to accentuate the man climbing into the cab of this large truck/caterpillar of a device.
The image was shot with a D200, a 24-85mm lens @ 85mm, f/7.1, 1/640s, matrix metering, ISO 100. Most likely I shot handheld since I was 'lurking.'
Thanks for looking and leaving your comments.
So far I have three images in this series ... They can be seen on:
my account on zenfolio.

Cheers,

Carol

Comments

8 comments

Comment posted by Carol Nichols on February 16, 2012 at 10:06 PM

Carol, I looked at the 3 images in your series. All are very nice, but I especially like the treatment you have used on this image. Please let us know when you add more images to this collection.

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Comment posted by Steve Balke on February 17, 2012 at 8:07 AM

You've somehow managed to make ordinary events interesting with your images, Carol. I too particularly like the post-processing that you've done with this image. To me, it has a beautiful "fine art" look.

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Comment posted by Jonathan Lent on February 17, 2012 at 8:11 AM

This is really cool. I love the processing. Sounds like a great series, can't wait to see more.

Registered on March 12, 2009, 44 Posts, 109 Comments

Comment posted by Preston Birdwell on February 17, 2012 at 11:34 AM

This is interesting, Carol. I like the sense of movement, and the processing works nicely, here.

Well done!

--P

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Comment posted by Bill Leggett on February 17, 2012 at 2:34 PM

I like the sort of vague vignette effect treatment here, Carol.

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Comment posted by Robert Dayton on February 17, 2012 at 8:44 PM

A good theme to photograph, Carol. I'm looking forward to future postings.
I like your choice of processing. Capturing the man ascending into the cab
when you did creates a feeling of movement for me. Well done.

Registered on November 11, 2008, 281 Posts, 3958 Comments

Comment posted by Bob Duff on February 18, 2012 at 12:26 PM

16 tons and what do you get.. another day older...

Well done Carol.

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Comment posted by Buck Ward on February 19, 2012 at 9:41 PM

That's a terrific photograph Carol. I really enjoy seeing it. I love your high key treatment.

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