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'One Hand in the Riggin' Photos (Photo Heavy)

18 years ago

It is amazing how a day, at home, ignoring all domestic chores, can produce so many pictures and words!

I've been blogging on MySpace for a year and it's addictive.

I love it and I have a loyal readership of two...three if you count duckie but she's missing from MySpace more than she is from the KT.

My MySpace URL is below if you'd like to follow my ramblings.

It's a private page but if I recognize your name I will let you in. Or, email me through my page here and let me know you asked to join. Making a myspace page is easy and safe. Just make sure you change your password frequently and mark you board 'private'.

Here is a little of today's ramblings:

Quite awhile ago I submitted some photos to Brenn Hill's website...

Brenn Hill Dot Com

For his CowPixs Page.

On Hill's first CD he recorded a song, The Greys River Road.

When I sent the CowPixs photos I asked how he was connected with Greys River. My family registered the first brand on the Little Greys River Grazing Association close to a hundred years ago and I was curious what Hill's interest was. He said 'Greys River is hallowed ground' and said he'd tell me later why he thinks this. Then he asked for some Greys River photos (for a newsletter or something) and said he could use a good 'one hand in the riggin' photo.

It's taken awhile (like four months) but last weekend in Oakley I finally got some 'one hand in the riggin' shots I liked well enough to send to Hill. (NOTE: Brenn Hill is a cowboy entertainer from Utah. He wrote and recorded the rodeo song 'One Hand in the Riggin'. This is why he wants a photo of 'one hand in the riggin'. A riggin is the point of contact between a bareback rider and bucking horse at a rodeo.)

Hill hasn't seen the photos yet (I use the 'your email has been opened' featured on Outlook Express and I haven't gotten a receipt from him) so basically, you lucky folks are the first to see these pictures.

What Hill has in mind for them or if he'll even bother to let me know what he thinks is neither here nor there.

What IS here and there is that I got them and I like them.

And I hope you do too.

I did some photo-shopping.

In most of my photos the bright, super color saturated technique is the best. But in this case, I like the softer faded look. The Photo Shop technique strips most of the color out of the photo, leaving just a little bit and makes the rosin stand out, emphasizing the cracks and wrinkles in the gloves, the faded jeans and the scratches on the riggin. It also brings out the creases in the chaps as well as mane hair.

Okay.

Enough technical talk.

Here they are...all of them.

Yes.

Some are duplicated. That is to show you the different color effects. Let me know what you like the best...or what you don't like..

Enjoy!!!

Okay, this isn't a hand. And it's not in the riggin. But I liked what I saw and like what the camera captured.

Here is a link that might be useful: Cornia Photography MySpace

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Comments (15)

buzzard
18 years ago
last modified: 11 years ago
Lori, I love every one of your pictures. They all tell a story. Even if it is the same story, they tell it in just a little different way.
Zipper_TX
18 years ago
last modified: 11 years ago
They are all nice Lori, but I vote for #7! I like the clarity in the middle with the blended red edges. Just my personal choice ;0)

I also like the last one, but I would blur all four edges just to make that center shot more pronounced.

Also JMHO ;0)
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vicki_lv_nv
18 years ago
last modified: 11 years ago
More truly wonderful pictures! I absolutely loved them! Thank you for sharing these also. You should be proud!
LorifromUtah
Original Author
18 years ago
last modified: 11 years ago
That's a good idea Zipper..about the boot on the riggin.

I shot these from the deck behind the bucking chutes.
Once the kids found out what I was doing they were very helpful. What I did was lean over the chute, with the horse loaded, and shoot pictures around what was happening. Once a horse came up and some nice young man pulled me out of the way. I wish I knew his name. He saved my life. Basically I was shooting between the helper and the rider while he got on.

The red around #7 is the rider's father. He was leaning across the chute and he's wearing a red shirt.

I haven't done much with edges on photoshop.
I also have PictureIt but haven't had it long so I'm lost.
I'll take all help I can get!

Thanks!

Lori
Zipper_TX
18 years ago
last modified: 11 years ago
Lori, I use Paint Shop Pro for my pictures. I have versions 7-10 but like 8 the best. I'm including a link for free downloads of some of the older versions just in case you'd like to try them too ;0)

Here is a link that might be useful: free downloads for psp
danihoney
18 years ago
last modified: 11 years ago
They're all good but 2-4-7 and 16 are my favorites.
mcmann
18 years ago
last modified: 11 years ago
Great photographs Lori. My favorites were the 2 were you only saw 1 gloved hand and the single boot. It's really interesting how the powder on the glove highlights the texture of the leather and the creases. Do they use a rosin?
nodakgal
18 years ago
last modified: 11 years ago
Those are great!
FWIW my favorites are #'s 3,4,7.
LorifromUtah
Original Author
18 years ago
last modified: 11 years ago
I can't pick a favorite.
That's why I have so many.
I am partial to those with two hands in the pictures of the guys working their hand into the riggin handle. I lean towards the photo with the red shirt all around it too.
LOL

Yes, McMann, rough stock riders use rosin; especially bareback and bull riders. Saddle bronc riders use it on the inside of their chaps but the others put it on their gloves.

Lori
Vique_Pa
18 years ago
last modified: 11 years ago
I like them all, Lori. If I close my eyes I can hear the creaking of the saddle and smell the leather and the horse. Ahhhhh just a little piece of heaven. Vique.
Happy_Go_Lucky_Gayle
18 years ago
last modified: 11 years ago
I like third to last pic. Great shots.

Gayle
greenthumbfish
18 years ago
last modified: 11 years ago
'One Hand in the Riggin'

The first and next to last are the same image, the first cropped closer, but either of these two images are the ones that tell the story best and look like CD cover material.

Have you tried removing the color and applying a duotone using sepia tone color? That would nail it for me. Perhaps even adding an overlay of extra dirt/scratches/roughage.

Side note: Lori, please use PS filters sparingly as it is considered amateur-ish by professional photogs. So many times it is simply unnecessary and screams that your original image wasn't good enough on its own. If you do enhance the image, make sure it's YOURS and not something that came with a software program. And if it makes a difference, I'm an art director in real life and don't play one on TV ;-)

HTH
LorifromUtah
Original Author
18 years ago
last modified: 11 years ago
Thanks for the advice GTFish. I like hearing from an industry pro!

I agree with you completely about over using photo enhancement software. For the longest time I did nothing but crop my photos; mostly because I did not know WHAT to do but also I felt funny manipulating the pictures. I felt like I was cheating....LOL

It has only been the last month I have done anything with photo shop...other than hit the auto enhance tool.

The first photo and the next to last have different filters applied to them as well as a different cropping. (They are my favorite too.)

The first photo I layered, cropped and added soft light filter. Then I went to 'enhance', 'adjust color' and 'remove' color. I also used the unsharp feature too.

The second photo I layered, cropped and applied 'hard light' and the unsharp feature only.

I don't know enough (yet) about photo shop to perform the technique you recommended but I will try it the next time I am experimenting with Photo Shop.

Thank you all so much for your input!
I do appreciate it...and yes...you all make my self esteem soar!
LOL

Just a note: the fellow in the picture name is JD. He is a very nice young man!

Lori
greenthumbfish
18 years ago
last modified: 11 years ago
Lori,
All of those filters you just mentioned are fine and you did use them sparingly and well, which is why I like those images ;-)

To explore the duotone feature, go to Image>Mode and change to grayscale. I usually do an auto levels at this point just in case. Then go to Image>Mode and change to duotone. Choose two colors in the pop up, usually black and (in this case) a mustardy brown. Or you may want to try a lt brown and a dk brown or heck let your imagination take over here! Then you can explore different saturations of the 2 colors in that pop up (in the little boxes to the left of the color blocks).

Have fun and good luck!

PS. I've seen your stuff before, but never posted, just wanted to finally tell you - you have a great eye for it.
JoanMN
18 years ago
last modified: 11 years ago
LOVE number 3, Lori, though they're all great!
JoanMN

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