Sheep Shearing summer 2010 C&C

daycent

Back in July, I tagged along to a sheep shearing... ah... session I suppose (choosing my words carefully here) which took place near where I'm living in south Tipperary. I was kinda concentrating on video (which I still haven't managed to edit) and snapped some stills while I was at it. I deliberately went for a heavily processed look. All done in Lightroom. More here on my flickr if you're interested. C&C welcome.



Sheep shearing by BrianHealyPhotography.com, on Flickr


Sheep shearing-38 by BrianHealyPhotography.com, on Flickr


Sheep shearing-32 by BrianHealyPhotography.com, on Flickr


Sheep shearing-9 by BrianHealyPhotography.com, on Flickr


Sheep shearing-26 by BrianHealyPhotography.com, on Flickr


Sheep shearing-27 by BrianHealyPhotography.com, on Flickr


Sheep shearing-22 by BrianHealyPhotography.com, on Flickr

kelly1

Nice collection.

artyeva

love these. specially #26.

yer man that sheared them is shockin' bad at it though - the state of the poor thing in the last shot :eek:

LeoB

Thank god they have good eyesight and the dog escaped.... They went to specsavers:)

Mountainsandh

artyeva wrote: »

love these. specially #26.

yer man that sheared them is shockin' bad at it though - the state of the poor thing in the last shot :eek:

It's more 32 that would be a bit gross for me tbh, even though I bet you it was just a small nip and sort of became messy.
They're not hairdressers though, at least not the fellas I know , as long as it keeps the maggots off, they're happy with the style.

Daycent 26 and 22 are my favourites, you can see the men and their expressions, as well as the sheep.

AnimalRights

They're been treated like animals.

sarkozy

Quality shots. Can I ask what your post-processing technique is?

daycent

Mountainsandh wrote: »

It's more 32 that would be a bit gross for me tbh, even though I bet you it was just a small nip and sort of became messy.

That one got caught on some barbed wire apparently, but it seemed okay.

sarkozy wrote: »

Quality shots. Can I ask what your post-processing technique is?

Well it was all done in lightroom, can't remember what exactly. Heavy on the clarity slider anyway, and I added some grain which I wouldn't normally do, but it seemed to suit them. I think the luminance noise reduction was turned up full as well.

Old Perry

kelly1 wrote: »

Nice collection.

+1

magicbastarder

AnimalRights wrote: »

They're been treated like animals.

i'm not quite sure if this is tongue in cheek.

DotOrg

some great shots and nice processing but way too heavy on the vignette. it looks very artificial

daycent

DotOrg wrote: »

some great shots and nice processing but way too heavy on the vignette. it looks very artificial

Cheers. Yeah, I think you might have a point on the vignette alright

Adriatic

I agree with DotOrg on the vignetting but otherwise I am a big fan of heavily processed photos because they really intensify the mood and atmosphere and lightroom is great for this, and at the same time not going completely overboard which is easily done in photoshop.