Inside the Bodie Stamp Mill

[Diane_Miller]

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Description

This place is a target-rich environment, with major limitations on capture – dark, no tripods, shaky footing, limited ability for positioning and composition, but awesome diffused light. I thought these meters were very interesting but this is the only angle I could get and had to crop to about 50%. (We were in a group that had to move through fairly quickly with no time to change lenses and had to guess ahead of time which one to use.) There was a big shop with all sorts of fabrication and repair capability, as it was a very long and slow road to civilization.

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All comments welcome!

Technical Details

Basic tonal stuff in LR and B/W conversion there. Into PS for NR and a crop.

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[Dennis_Plank]

Very cool composition, Diane. The broken face of the one meter adds a lot to the image as does the bit of a spiral in the cord(?) above them.

[Jim_Gavin]

Inclusion of the coiled (tube?-copper?) makes for a great composition. B/W great choice. I wonder if those nuts and bolts on the bottom are late additions. Look too bright to be period fasteners.

[Diane_Miller]

Thanks, @Dennis_Plank and @Jim_Gavin. I wondered at the time what the coil was, too, and didn’t have a clue. Didn’t even bother to try to document where it went. The coiling does look like copper – it didn’t have the look of aging insulation on a wire, and was bigger than expected for a wire.

I could clone out the nuts, or maybe even try to clone texture over them with the TK freguency separation trickery.