Sweden

Red Interior

Red Interior

As I mentioned a couple of posts ago I spent a weekend driving around Sweden with some of the guys ‘n’ girls from the local photo club.

Well, here is the first shoot from that trip, it’s from a place called Töcksfors, here you can find this – I don’t know if this is the right English word for it – old car scrapping yard right in the middle of the forest – click on the geotag link below to see the exact place.

It’s a pretty big place, and there are some really old cars with moss and leaves all over, I really recommend this place if you are into making photos of old decaying cars.
For me personally it’s not that big of a kick but I did get a few decent shoots out of it

HDR made from 5 RAW exposures in Photomatrix, imported all the images into Photoshop, masked back the highlights areas, desaturated the red color, and finished it off with Topaz Adjust “Dramatic”.

Wheat – Polaroid Plate #1

Wheat – Polaroid Plate #1

Another fetish I’m having at the moment – besides the trashy black & white one - is the Polaroid/old picture effect fetish.
I’m was looking through some of my older photos – many of them are before I went digital – and tried using some Lightroom Polaroid presets (with my own minor adjustments) that I found on the web on them, and I must say that on some of them – photos that I normally would have trashed – it really works out great.
I’m not quiet sure what it is that makes them work, the composition is ok, and of course the look of the effect is really cool, I think the lomo feel the photo gets from the effect is great.

So the formula must be something like: OK composition + a Polaroid effect = a decent photo. And I think it’s best served from an analogue camera.

What do you think?