Today I’m sharing another shot from my trip to the Ogden industrial area here in Calgary. This is right in front of the ADM Milling shop just off Ogden road. I was drawn to this yellow box overflowing with ropes because it provided a great splash of warm colour in an otherwise very cool scene. Looking for contrast like this is something that I’ve started to pay a bit more attention to, and I’ve found it can make images much more compelling.
It was kind of a gloomy day, and there wasn’t much interest in the background, so I applied some blur in onOne’s Focalpoint 2 to really draw attention to the box. I also selectively boosted the yellow a bit really make the box the focal point of the image.

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Canon EOS 50D, Sigma 10-20mm f/3.5, 12mm, F 16, ISO 100, 5 Exposures
Great processing Heath. The yellow really does jump out at ya and the lines in the image are cool too! Well done!
I love the way this shot is framed – It’s great what happens in the distant background. Awesome processing too!
ditto! Superb. 🙂
Heath, this is really sweet man! I would love to know which filter you used, assuming it was PhotoTools! 🙂
Sweet shot and some really nice post here.
I think I may have preferred the focal point to be a little closer so that the base of the box is in full focus and the metal item in the rear has a bit more soft focus – that’s just a personal preference and not a fault though. great work!