Garden Tools
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Nikon D700
Nikkor 28-70mm f2.8
1/500 second
F/22.0
ISO 400
52 mm
Nikkor 28-70mm f2.8
1/500 second
F/22.0
ISO 400
52 mm
Labels: D700, Garden, still life
posted by Laurie at 12:00 AM
30 Comments:
excellent composition, it's very neat, clear sharp and inviting us to go out, out of the house.
You have no excuse...you have all the equipment you need ! ;-)
This is the first time i see so clean tools. And they are gardening tools, right?
I would definitely like to meet the owner!!!
I'm thinking about it too ;)
Very pretty photo. Every thing is ready for a good job!
@TP@Photoskiasi...You are right, they are very clean...too clean. They are brand new and they have yet to meet the soil, and they won't today since it is a rainy day, but soon, very soon!
Is't a invitation to the job? It seems to me an pleasant praise of the idle.:)
nice picture! but i think it's a pity to make these tools dirt ... ;-)
Wonderful - the colors are so refreshing (and I love the shadows too). Your gardening things are much cleaner than mine - in fact, your's don't even look used!
It all looks brand new. So how much gardening have you done lately? It's still snowing in Wisconsin!
wow, great still life
i like how every piece is carefully arranged and composed, great work
That's a great image.
I really enjoyed this frame, thanks for sharing :)
Great sharpness. So happy it's springtime! Can't wait to get outside more
Your garden might be a mess, but your tools are certainly not.
Getting metals right is not easy, but you nailed it. The image looks quite processed (not over-processed). Is this a new style?
Love your comfy gardening slippers and the Poland Springs water. I always looked forward to the taste of that water when we worked in NYC.
Lovely composition... I can feel you've prepared everything caring about the result! Yes!!! It is time to work in the garden! Mine is a mess too... :-P
@FRamed and Shot...thanks. Not really that much processing was done to this shot. Processing was done in Lightroom in less than 5 minutes. I've started relying more on Lightroom for post processing in recent weeks. I had always preferred doing only white balance and exposure, basic RAW conversion stuff, in Lightroom only and then bringing photos into Photoshop for doing curves and I still do quite often when I want to do specific local curves adjustments, but this one was done in Lightroom.
This was shot using flash and high speed synch in my light tent. In Lightroom I did Basic adjustments for the RAW file. I cooled the White Balance slightly from "as shot", and did some slight exposure adjustments. I increased the exposure slightly to enhance the effect of the high speed synch which concentrates the flash to a smaller area of the photo.
Then I did curves, color balance, and some tone control. I slightly enhanced the vignette that was there as a result of the high-speed synch flash. Again all this was done in Lightroom and took less than 5 minutes. That is pretty much it.
As for this "look", I was a huge fan of some country home style magazines back in the 1980's and early 90's and I was trying to recreate that warm rich rustic style that I remembered from those magazines. This was what inspired me to go in this direction for some of my recent work.
I have created some preset actions for this look so that I can pretty much do all of this with one click. I am learning to appreciate all that you can do in Lightroom.
une jardinière qui ne semble pas se baisser jusqu'à mettre les mains dans la terre ;) belle nature morte !
I enjoyed reading the description of your processing procedures. As to the picture - it's a beautiful still life, expertly arranged and very attractive. It also shows the garden equipment in this pristine conditon for perhaps the last time this summer! ;-) Maybe you should use others and keep these in mint shape for future pictures.
Really great still life scene. I enjoyed reading how you processed it.
Interesting idea and composition. Very sharp and clear. Nice !
your gardens are a mess you say... well, that might be the reason why all these tools still look so new and shiny! :)
Wow, really beautiful colours here! Great shot!
beautiful, very crisp shot. i am going to try and ignore my yard obligations this spring haha
Nice Garden shot.Equipment of gardening
Nice and new gardening equipment ! You need to decide yourself ! I hate gardening...
Very well done! You are so skilled with composition, lighting, processing.
A very nice still life. It's not an easy genre of photo to do well, but I like this. (My only critique is that there is something in the colours that looks slightly off, like the white balance is really close but off just a bit...)
@Jim...Thanks. Actually these colors are pretty much spot on. I can hold each of these items up to my (calibrated) screen and they are just about a perfect match. :)
such a sharp capture. I think everybody wants to work in garden after seeing it!
i like this arrangement of yours.. nice work.. :D
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