The Sunset Factory

Published January 6, 2009

First off: Happy 2009. I had a couple of photos lined up for this blog but never worked up the interest in post-processing them better as was needed before posting them here. Now I’ve worked my way through most of the huge pile of photos from December and decided to give some attention to my stumbling blog. Stumblelog? Is that something?

I had this photo, from late November, that I was quite pleased with and coming back to it didn’t hurt it too badly. There are some issues but there are also elements in it that almost make up for them. Let’s just say that if I don’t have people in my photos then I like to have man-made things in them. Even better if the man-made can somehow be contrasted with nature.

But this is turning the blog into navel-gazing with lots of words and not so many photos. I’d rather let you see what you see in the photos and briefly account for photographic circumstances myself. I think this is the first photo I post here that’s shot with my little gem of a telephoto, the Nikon E-Series 75-150 f/3.5. I had fumbled with photographing the factory and the sky with a wider lens to no effect. On the way back I saw something else to photo, didn’t make anything out of that subject either but then turned back and noticed the scene above. The telephoto zoom was on my camera and it all seemed to fit at the time.

I would probably have posted it back in November hadn’t Lightroom exported it to JPEG with some linear artifacts along the edges of the factory. I resorted to exporting to TIFF, resize the photo in Pixelmator, add a touch of sharpening – which I’m inept at – and then export it to JPEG. I hope you enjoy the results.