new print: Yesteryear

  

  

December 2007 in the desert, midway between al-Hassa and the Qatari border,
with the 10D and 50mm f1.4 lens, 1/1600th at f/4 and ISO 100.  24" print.  

This looks a bit dark here?, but quite right in the gallery page on a dark background.  Take a look there too and let me know how it looks to you.  If the sky is too rich, I'll blame it on the conversion to sRGB and tweak it in the next day or two.  Oh Lord, how I despise sRGB.

But I really do like this image.  

  

There's a good story behind this one, one of my strangest stories from life in the Middle East.  If y'all are interested, I'll write it up sometime this week.  But for now, I've been chasing chromatic aberration too long and I've got to get some sleep!

Oh, but a shout out and thanks to Lance.  He looked at a draft of this last year and helped me figure out a major issue with it.  Fresh eyes do me a world of good.  (But then why is it that I always turn to musicians?)

  

Comments

[JNgaio]

I was confused by your comment about the sky possibly looking too rich because that's quite a light blue compared to what you often get in Australia/NZ but then I remembered that the light and the sky is apparently not nearly as bright and blue in other parts of the world. Is this why you think the sky might be too rich? Or some other reason? In any case, it looks nice to me.

And overall, I think this is a very cool image. I've always been a sucker for old, rusted wrecks and the psychological effect they have. Especially in the desert. This photo's very cool, it actually makes me think of photos of Australian desert rocks - Uluru - very monumental. The more I look, the more I like this too. There's something sort of organic and alive in that dead, old wreck. And then I look again and I see a battleship. So yeah, nice!