104 Experiment – Introduction and Image Number 001 – Ferguson

An intro of sorts:

For the next 52 weeks, I will be posting a new single image each Monday and Friday along with a short-long collection of my thoughts about it. The images may represent things that are special to me, random photographic captures, deliberately engineered shots, blah blah blah, I’m sure I’ll eventually post an image that doesn’t fall into any of those categories. I’m calling this series “104 Experiment” due to the fact that over the course of 52 weeks, two images per week will result in 104 total images.

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With all that out of the way, I present:

FERGUSON

 

On a rather hazy day in April of 2012, at around 4:30 in the afternoon, I offered to assist my wife’s “Grandpap” with some yard work. He happened to be leveling out the banks of a small hill, created by a new septic system they had installed. “You want to bring over some dirt with the tractor?” he asked. “Hmmm”, I replied, shaken by the request to operate such a machine for the first time in my life, “I’m not sure”. “You don’t want to? Or you don’t think you can?” he asked. My reply was a warning, “I guess I could try, but I’ll be asking LOTS of questions!”

About thirty minutes later, I was operating this relic piece of machinery (from the late 1940s), picking up topsoil with the scoop on the back and dumping it on the sides of the hill. I especially love driving vehicles with clutches and gears and this tractor had a scoop lever! It was a blast!

This memory had to be preserved, so I captured several photos of Ferguson parked in the field. I usually don’t like hard edits, but the high sun called for it. Lots of tweaking was definitely involved, but the biggest difference was made by raising the intensity of the blacks to about 67%, all after converting to black and white of course.

exposure time: 1/160

f-number: f/2.0

ISO speed: 50

focal-length: 50mm

equipment: Canon 5D and Canon 50mm f/1.4 USM

software: Adobe Lightroom

 

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