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May 17, 2014 15:34:56 #
May 17, 2014 15:48:13 #
Terrym9 wrote:
Taken a few evenings ago 1/400 f3.5 iso400 50 mm
I like this very much, there is too much sky so crop some off and there is perhaps too much stalk at the bottom. But cropping a picture such as this is very much down to personal taste.
Graham
May 17, 2014 16:50:36 #
The contrast between shadow and light that you have captured is excellent. I think Graham is right about cropping the stalks ... and I would agree about the sky too, except that you would be cropping the blue part of the sky. Then you would lose your sky contrasts.
Love the angle, love the colors, love the clarity ... this is a quality image. Very nicely done. Good capture at the right time of day and at the right angle.
Love the angle, love the colors, love the clarity ... this is a quality image. Very nicely done. Good capture at the right time of day and at the right angle.
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May 17, 2014 18:22:03 #
Graham Smith wrote:
I like this very much, there is too much sky so crop some off and there is perhaps too much stalk at the bottom. But cropping a picture such as this is very much down to personal taste.
Graham
Graham
Thank you Graham, I did a quick crop on this as both you and Nightski suggested., just to see what it would look like. I believe the sky doesn't effect my feeling on this either way, however I prefer the stalks uncropped. My focus point is on the stalks, and also I like the amount of contrast I get with the stalks as dark as they are, compared to the sunlight on the top of the wheat. it almost gives it a vignette type look across the bottom.
Terry
May 17, 2014 20:27:04 #
Terrym9 wrote:
Taken a few evenings ago 1/400 f3.5 iso400 50 mm
I like this peaceful shot quite a bit. It looks like the Palouse area which is one of the most wonderful places I've ever visited. I wouldn't change a thing, though I do agree that the sky and the stalks could afford to lose a bit without really harming anything.
To me, the bluest part of the sky, which is at the top, adds to the image, as do the dark stalks which "ground" the field. Reducing either makes it a different, but still nice photograph. I might do the slightest lightening along that dark stalk line just so the stalks would have a little more definition, but if it looked funny or induced undue noise, I'd back off it.
Very pretty.
May 17, 2014 21:00:11 #
To me, this image is all about shape and line. the stalks are vertical at the bottom and then you have these 4 wonderful planes,each a different color. the wheat is green/yellow and horizontal and then you have these wonderful green shapes in the middle fields and then the brown. The blue skies are horizontal which sort of makes it all nice and tidy. Simplistic yet so detailed.
May 17, 2014 22:29:27 #
minniev wrote:
I like this peaceful shot quite a bit. It looks li... (show quote)
Thanks Minnie, it does resemble the Palouse a bit, however this is in northWestern Oregon, just a couple of miles outside of Hillsboro, it is in a mostly forested area in fact these hills are covered with forest. by the way I am becoming convinced that just a touch off the bottom might improve this.
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May 18, 2014 01:41:34 #
Simple clean lines in this case make for a beautiful image. I certainly wouldn't be cropping the stalks at the bottom as they are the only part in focus and they are essential to the composition. I also wouldn't crop the top either as it would mess up the overall balance of the pic. My only concern relates to the sky. At the download size if you look carefully at the sky there many faint horizontal lines and bands going across the full width of the sky. These can't be natural because they are so perfectly spaced but I cant think what has caused it.
Peter
Peter
May 18, 2014 05:11:43 #
Terrym9 wrote:
Taken a few evenings ago 1/400 f3.5 iso400 50 mm
This is a very nice image and it would look good printed large. The shallow DOF does a nice job of giving us all of the definition we need for the stalks. You could have gotten a little more DOF at 1/100 at about f/8 but if there was any movement in the air it might have worked against you.
The banding in the sky that conkerwood mentioned comes from doing adjustments to the brightness, contrast, etc., to an 8-bit version of the image. This can be avoided by working with the raw image or by working with a 16-bit mode or version such as TIFF when making any tonal adjustments. When you finally re-save the image as a JPEG there should be no banding. There are ways to fix the banding but they can add noise so it is best to avoid the problem.
May 18, 2014 06:17:00 #
Terrym9 wrote:
Taken a few evenings ago 1/400 f3.5 iso400 50 mm
Very nice, if it had white puffy clouds it would look just like the Windows XP background image.
May 18, 2014 09:41:24 #
Please do NOT crop off the bottom. The darkness of the stalks is necessary for balance and "footing" for the image. I tried a crop on the sky, and as someone said, leaving out the darker blue leaves only the light horizon sky, which isn't nearly as interesting or as nice. It's a lovely image, and speaking as a grower of wheat, one I would hang on the wall. Now you need to do a companion piece shot of the ripening or ripened wheat!
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May 18, 2014 12:19:44 #
conkerwood wrote:
Simple clean lines in this case make for a beautif... (show quote)
I had not noticed those until you pointed it out. They show here more than on my original at home, however I did find them there also
May 18, 2014 13:01:19 #
I would prefer to see more of this landscape in focus. A smaller aperture and careful calculation of the focus distance could bring the lower band of wheat into focus. Right now it looks to me to be a snapshot without much thought for depth of field. The more distant bands of wheat would look quite natural soft as they are much too far to see detail anyway. Your comment says that you took this 'a few evenings ago' but your EXIF data shows it was taken at 26 minutes after noon yesterday. Perhaps you should adjust the clock in your camera.
The banding in the sky is the result of jpeg compression. This can occur from repeatedly saving a jpeg image or selecting too strong a compression. It can be avoided by working with RAW images or 16 bit TIFFs right up to the end and converting to jpeg as the last step. Of course if you shoot jpegs instead of raw you should convert to TIFF until you are finished fiddling with it.
The banding in the sky is the result of jpeg compression. This can occur from repeatedly saving a jpeg image or selecting too strong a compression. It can be avoided by working with RAW images or 16 bit TIFFs right up to the end and converting to jpeg as the last step. Of course if you shoot jpegs instead of raw you should convert to TIFF until you are finished fiddling with it.
May 18, 2014 13:27:59 #
mcveed wrote:
I would prefer to see more of this landscape in fo... (show quote)
Thanks for your input Mcveed, I am going to go back to the raw file, work on it and see if that helps the sky. I will say I like the way it is focused, and did take a few other shots with different settings, this is the one I like the best. Also I checked the exif data and it shows 5/15 at 5:50 pm is when this shot was taken. I found that puzzling from your comment, so I downloaded from the site here and checked the data and it still shows as 5/15 at 5:50 pm.
Thanks again for your input
May 18, 2014 14:44:21 #
Don't touch the cropping of this photo. The stems at the bottom give the photo both depth and a sense of being a complete image. Likewise for the sky. It makes the picture a real scene, rather than just lines and colors. I'm afraid that's all you would have left if you begin cropping.
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