Carpenters Workshop C&C

oshead

All my life I have grown up around my Dads Workshop. He's a carpenter (retired now). So... while looking for new subjects to shoot today, I got the idea. There must be hundreds of interesting weird and/or wonderful things in his workshop to shoot. I just had to look at it with a new eye. As if it was the first time I had walked in to the shed.

Here's some of the results. I decided it would be best to convert to BW and while playing around with masks (which I don't usually do), I tought it might be fun to add a splash of colour to the images.

Comment and Criticisim always welcome. The set is here in pix.ie. More will be added tomorrow.

Dave OS


The Paint Shop


Drill


Dolls

melekalikimaka

selective colour suprisingly works on first two... not so much the last... maybe reduce the saturation a bit?

oshead

I think you're right melekalikimaka. Thanks for that.

alexandros

Great composition!
Love the subject-matter!
Well done!

kjt

Hey Dave,
Nice shots, I prefer the edited version of #3. I think #2 would look better with a tighter crop?




(I've also added a little B&W cross process...) just an idea
Hope you don't mind!

PaulieC

I was a bit disappointed to be honest. The pix you have are very good, but when you said that it was your retired Dad's workshop, I ws kind of hoping for lovely old hand tools, belt driven lathes etc., bathed in lovely afternoon sunlight streaming though a window...maybe it was just me though

oshead

Thanks for the input Kyle. I agree with you. I had originally gone with the just a straight bw conversion, added a curves layer and a bit of high pass sharpen. Here's the result. Nice, I think... But I wanted to play a little and introduce the colour. I quite like the crop but I prefer the 3:2 version.

kjt

oshead wrote: »

I had originally gone with the just a straight bw conversion, added a curves layer and a bit of high pass sharpen. Here's the result. Nice, I think...

Indeed, very nice. I prefer this to the first one posted.
Keep 'em coming Dave

oshead

cambo_gueno wrote: »

I was a bit disappointed to be honest. The pix you have are very good, but when you said that it was your retired Dad's workshop, I ws kind of hoping for lovely old hand tools, belt driven lathes etc., bathed in lovely afternoon sunlight streaming though a window...maybe it was just me though

Lol.... funny. And then it's back to the real world. The machinery (not seen in the photos) are/were there to make his job easier and make some money. Most of his old hand tools and machinery got chucked the minute something better came along. Hmm..... reminds me of the photographic world.

Borderfox

Second one is really nice.

bradnailer

Great set of photo's, I've been around these type of things for years but you've really shown them i a nice way, love the drill chuck!
Very fresh ideas.

oshead

Thanks guys. Just to add another to boards from the set. This is my Dad's favourite.