Bolton Emerson Americas: Crib Collab
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I’ve been shooting off and on at Bolton Emerson Americas’ machine shop for over a year now. The place is very familiar to me now. I’m used to seeing it through my eyes alone. So when my name came up in the HRD Collaboration rotation, I decided to offer up a set of brackets from the facility. I thought it would be great to “see” BEA through the eyes of other artists.
I offered up this shot of the “tool crib.” But after I posted the brackets for the guys to grab, I had second thoughts. In my head I had already processed the image and thought, “What more can you do?” I really thought I would be looking at 7 more almost identical images. Boy was I wrong.
My version is above, my friends’ below. Click on each for a bigger version.
After you go through the images, be sure to pay their sites a visit. You will be glad you did.
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I think the best source images are the ones that allow the most creativity. I wound up taking this in several different directions before I was happy with the result. Even at that point, I had a few other ideas in mind! Thinking that you wanted to go bendy with it, in one iteration I warped the side bins in almost a complete circle.
For my final, I wanted to draw attention through the bins to the end wall. After layering in the basics and toning using various filters, I used Alien Skin Bokeh to create a 15% zoom effect, then used the same coordinates to darken the edges. It came at the sacrifice of some of the nice details along the way, but I feel it helped to draw attention to where I wanted it to go.
It’s always a pleasure to be part of this group of talented photographers. It has literally opened up new worlds of ideas for me, so thanks to all of you.
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Having said that I morphed that perfect composition into this dizzy mess. Having done so many black and whites lately I was really excited to get ridiculous with color on some brackets. Right off the bat I decided to go with some crazy split toning and blur. I really liked the fractions on the shelves and wanted to keep them in focus. I tried several focus points…most likely should have gone with keeping the ladder crisp but not much of what I did on this edit makes much sense! I used Lightroom 3, Color Efex for Midnight, Tonal Contrast and Glamour Glow filters, and Focal Point 2.
All in all I had an absolute blast with this set and thanks for the opportunity to get weird with a such a great subject!
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Before I started to work this set, I thought about what it was I was after. The answer: a photograph that looks like it could be a complex illustration created by the the like of the great Bert Munroy. I was after fine art, something that I’d love to see hanging on my wall. To get to this final image, I spent some time layering in bits of the original RAW images to get a rough canvas to work on. After that, I used a few Nik Color Efex 4 filters to sharpen up some details, as well as to create some deep shadows to create the depth that Photomatix Pro just cannot deliver. I was pretty happy with the outcome. Bob, these brackets rocked! Thanks for sharing them with us!!
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I Ran all of the brackets through Photomatix Pro then decided that I wanted to highlight the rear shelves, using the “crib Shelves” on the side to lead your eyes to the rear of the scene. After Photomatix I brought the image into Photoshop, adjusted the levels, lens distortion and crop before doing some special T-Wiz tricks. The next steps were fun, some brushed in Topaz, OnOne and Phototune, followed by some Just enough darkness, Orton hears a who, and some contrast boost in certain areas. I finished the image up cloning out some spots I did not like and some NIK darken lighten center. I cannot wait to see what the other entries look like, thanks again Bob!
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The lines from the shelves and the distortion from the fisheye lens absolutely grabbed my attention. My intention was to bring them out and give the appearance of motion to a static shot. I burned most of the image out to highlight the lines then applied a slight radial blur, mostly to the edge of the frame.
Thanks for the fun Bob, I very much enjoyed it!
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In fact, this version is pulled back about two notches from even more strongly saturated version I almost used.
Red labels, yellow chalk, blue boxes, green metal.
Order, chaos, codes, symbols and signs.
What a joy. Thanks Bob.
Nice work from everyone, great fun! Thanks again for hosting Bob
Excellent work guys! Thanks for hosting and providing another great set of brackets Bob!
Wonderful post. I love to see the different iterations and techniques used. Bob wonderful image to start with and to everyone else fabulous job.
I’m truly speechless on this one! 🙂 Thanks for filling in my blank space Bob and for hosting this killer round of brackets!
Love that scene and had a blast working this one! Thanks Bob!!
Thank you, Bob. The post looks great!
Lots of fun, as usual. Jim’s subtle use of radial blur rules.
we see the same image, yet we see a completely different image. i really dig the subject, really dig the fish, and really dig the various treatments everyone gave to the image. one day, when i am worthy, i am sure i will get an image to work on, until then, i’ll settle for looking at everyone’s work…..hahahahhahahaaaaa. great stuff fellas.
wonderful. love the set a each of you have a unique style. thanks for sharing.
Great work guys! Rob’s makes me dizzy!! I dig it! Great work Rob!
As ever, it’s great to see so many different takes on the same set of images. Keep up the good work chaps!
Very cool to see how the perspectives change with the different processing by each artist.
Great set of brackets and lovely PP from everyone. I really can’t pick a favourite and dont think it would be fair to.
Sweet!