The town where I live has a single wind turbine that can be seen from the motorway. It is also very easily accessible on an office park. Having wanted an excuse to shoot this for a while, this seemed like a great opportunity.
As I believe that there is always a price to pay for progress, I wanted to make the picture "dark", maybe a little foreboding in a kind of science fiction way. Given the day was very overcast and that the colour of the wind turbine was grey/green, converting to black and white seemed obvious, if not essential. My daughter thinks this looks like a scene from a Gus van Sant film.
Post processing:
* noise ninja
* shadows/highlights
* levels
* curves for contrast
* channel mixer for conversion to greyscale
* crop
* size
* noise ninja
* usm
* save for web
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I think too much highlight and shadow was used for processing this image. I wish I could see more detail in the turbine but great placement in the thirds. (5)
Sorry but not at all fond of the strong halo around the subject, definately a turnoff for me personally, would have given a 5 but that knocked you down to a 4.
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