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A week ago, this sunflower field was full of bright yellow flowers. Unfortunately, by the time I made it here this week, the petals have all fallen or wilted. Photographers were still enjoying the colorful field anyway.
This time of year always has the landscape photographer heading to rural areas in search of treasured poppy fields and a few friends found a corker recently!
Claire & I found out the location and headed off in search yesterday to check it out armed with both my normal camera and Infra Red converted camera.
As we scouted the perimeter of the field I took shots with my IR camera then headed into the poppies to get a bit closer when we got down to a beautiful tree alone amongst the poppies.
The worst thing about shooting poppies for me is I suffer from hay fever and knew exactly what was coming after last years outing. Didnt stop sneezing for hours after!
Tech Info...
Panasonic G5 (converted to Full Spectrum)
7 Shot Panorama
1/800s - 1/1000s
f7.1
ISO 160
Filters...
Heliopan RG665 External Filter
Processing Info...
I opened the 7 RAW files in Adobe Camera Raw and used a DNG Profile to correct the custom White Balance I had set in camera as Adobe has real problems with the Kelvin reading with IR shots and makes them pink/red.
After making a few basic adjustments I opened the files in Photoshop CS6 and using Photomerge created the panorama. Due to the nature of stitched shots which look a bit like a pair of goggles when joined I had to then merge the layers and use the Transform Warp tool to pull the corners out otherwise it means cropping the shot a lot and losing some of the interesting elements.
Really to avoid this you should always shoot more of the scene than you need so the empty corners don't effect the final scene.
Once I had got a composition I was happy with I opened the shot in Silver Efex Pro 2 to create a mono version. I used one of the presets then messed with the sliders and opted for an orange filter which boosted the clouds and tree foliage.
The shot looked really cool but I felt I could accentuate them more so decided the way to go would be to use Luminosity Masks to target the specific areas.
I used a curves layer on the 'bright lights' mask and then I used the same technique on the sky to darken it with a 'super darks' mask.
Using Topaz Denoise I removed the noise in the sky then lastly after saving a Tiff and jpeg of the 300dpi file I used Tony Kuyper's resize and sharpen action for the shot to be uploaded to the web. I opted for 900px.
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Lt Col John McCrae
Canadian Army Medical Corps
In Flanders fields the poppies blow
Between the crosses, row on row,
That mark our place: and in the sky
The larks still bravely singing fly
Scarce heard amid the guns below.
We are the dead: Short days ago,
We lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow,
Loved and were loved: and now we lie
In Flanders fields!
Take up our quarrel with the foe
To you, from failing hands, we throw
The torch: be yours to hold it high
If ye break faith with us who die,
We shall not sleep, though poppies grow
In Flanders fields
Composed at the battlefront on May 3, 1915 during the second battle of Ypres, Belgium.
Photo captured alongside Icicle Creek Road via Minolta MD Tele Rokkor-X 135mm F/2.8 Lens. Stuart Mountain Range. Central Cascades Range. Okanogan-Wenatchee National Forest. Chelan County, Washington. Late October 2016.
Exposure Time: 1/20 sec. * ISO Speed: ISO-100 * Aperture: F/8 * Bracketing: None
Was riding my bike in the rice fields near my house when I took a break. I turned around and my photo was there.
Chicago, IL
January 5th, 2014
All photos © Joshua Mellin per the guidelines listed under "Owner settings" to the right.
As the sun sets on another Cubs season. Groan. A beautiful night at the Friendly Confines, making up for a dismal 10-1 loss to the even more lowly Astros.
a stunning field found in north shropshire near to shawbury airbase. The model is one of my colleagues, and the young girl is her lovely daughter.
Riddles designed 'Britannia' class '7MT' 4-6-2 no.70013 ‘Oliver Cromwell’ with a goods train at a muddy Top Field.
30742 70013 KWVR Charter
A poppy field just starting to explode with colour in the Cotswolds, England.
This should be an amazing sight in a couple of weeks.
Lavender (Lavandula) fields in the Cotswolds, the smell of Lavender was unbelivable while I was here shooting this.
work of Jelena Radonjic and me has been selected for exibition and we are still waiting the final results. The final stage and announcement of the winners will be at 28th May in SKC.
The Royal Victorian Regiment continued their training exercise with their new Grizzly II light armored vehicles. Tanks from the Royal Victorian Lancers also participated to ensure that the two vehicles can work seamlessly in the field.
there should be a girl running in a white dress to complete the image ...but I didn't have a white dress...and the weeds were as tall as me and I was afraid to go any deeper in the field :)...
You can see the storm coming this way!
We did make it back to the Field Station in time before the storm hit.
We were treated to ice cream at the Cretaceous Cafe and while we were wrapping up the end of the day the rain started to fall. It was sudden and it was intense! I was very glad to be inside.
One final wrinkle...we had our supper at the cafe, but it was still raining. And, remember that we still had a lecture to attend!!