Plow

[Theantiquetiger]

 

[deeky]

The shadows are a little dark for me. For me it created a little conflict over whether it was a day or night shot. The center of the plow (upper part of near wheel) also gets a little busy for me and not sure how you would address that here. Great subject - I've got a thing for old equipment. Just a few quirks for me..

 

[amolitor]

The vignette's too much for my taste, and it feels a little oversharpened (just the sense of overall business and lowered global contrast that wanging on the "sharpen" control too hard gives).

The composition is fairly nice, you've placed the object in-frame pretty well and it's a pretty interesting object.

The light appears to be not much, more or less flat harsh mid-day lighting which you have attempted to salvage by processing the dickens out of it (sharpen, contrast, vignette, tone, three borders) but the light remains flat and not very interesting.

Part of the trouble is that, for some reason, we cannot leave these damned things alone. Look! Old Farm Equipment! MUST SHOOT IT! So we're awash in these damned pictures, and nobody can quite figure out what, if anything, they're trying to say, or what we're supposed to make of them. I am as guilty as anyone, here.

 

[amolitor]

Also, I don't think it's a plow, although I can't tell what on earth it is. Disc cultivator, maybe?

 

[Theantiquetiger]

I added the original, unedited image to the first post. This was taken in jpeg for an assignment. We had to take 10 images with zero post editing. I did edit this image later.

 

[tirediron]

No, definitely not a plough and too light for a cultivator; a little hard to say for sure, but I'm guessing it's a four-tine tedder that might be missing the forks.