Hay bales Photo | TrekEarth

Photographer’s Note

English:

Some hay bales near my hometown Nendingen. It was my first attempt with a Lee Filter 0,6 ND Hard Grad.

Update:

By way of comparison I made another shot of the same scene without the Lee Filter 0.6 ND Hard Grad and now I've posted it to the WS. This is maybe the better version. I'm thinking about a repost. What do you think?

Update 2:

Due to some friendly and helpful critiques, I did a repost with the alternative version of the WS.

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Deutsch:

Diese Heuballen habe ich in der Nähe von meinem Heimatort Nendingen aufgenommen. Es war mein erster Versuch mit einem Lee 0,6 ND Verlaufsfilter.

Aktualisierung:

Zum Vergleich habe ich damals auch noch ein Bild ohne den Lee 0.6 ND Verlaufsfilter gemacht und dieses jetzt in den Workshop gestellt. Vielleicht ist das doch die bessere Version und deshalb denke ich über einen Repost nach. Was meint ihr?

Aktualisierung 2:

Auf Grund von einigen freundlichen und hilfreichen Kritiken, habe ich mich entschieden die Workshop-Version als Repost neu einzustellen.

Ola_Kwiatek, asajernigan, antua, jhm has marked this note useful

Critiques | Translate

hopsy_life (75) 2009-09-25 1:28

Schöne leere landschaft, gute Farben und Schärfe
Grüße
H.

Ola_Kwiatek (2620) 2009-09-25 1:53

Nice field, wonderful sky and clouds, amazing landscape. Beautiful colors.
Cheers

bema (8778) 2009-09-25 2:26

Hallo Helmut,

aber deutlich besser als die Vorgängerversion...

sieht doch irgendwie natürlicher aus, zumindest für mein Farbempfinden..

viele Grüße Bernd

asajernigan (14146) 2009-09-25 4:12

Helmut,
I like your composition here with the hay bails creating repeating patterns throughout the shot. The lines in the field leads the eye through the scene nicely. The lighting and colors are great as is the sharpness and DOF. The sky is great and you have presented it nicely.
TFS,
Asa

feather (49862) 2009-09-25 7:33

I use Lee hard edge filters and I think this is not the right situation for the greatest success. They really come into their own in low light situations, or when shooting into the light when the difference in light between ground and sky is wide. Having looked at your previous image I think I can recognise the mistake you made. You had the filter in place and then took your exposure reading, through the filter resulting in the ground being over-exposed. If you take the reading first and then put the filter in place you would have a better result. As you can see with this version the filter wasn't needed as the exposure of both sky and ground is good.
Kath

antua (470) 2009-09-25 9:12

Hello Helmut,

wondeful composition with this great-looking landscape! Amazing colours with the gold of the field and the blue of the sky creating a very nice contrast! Great sharpness and fine DOF! Congratulations!

Regards,
Antonis

testmaniac (12158) 2009-09-25 21:39

Hallo Helmut, nice view and very good photo! I like it!

TFS

Phil

jhm (82601) 2009-09-26 1:33

Guten Morgen Helmut,

I looked to your original version, I found these absolutely not bad, indeed a little bit strong blue in the sky.
Nice picture about the harvest, a nice classic picture.
You shows this very nice, sharpness and clarity are perfect.
This care for a very attractive picture.
Great composition and nice presentation.
Very well done, TFS.

Have a nice weekend,
John.

Photo Information

Copyright: Helmut Roos (buscape) (3753)
Genre: Places
Medium: Color
Date Taken: 2009-09-06
Categories: Nature
Camera: Nikon D40X, AF-S Nikkor 55-200 F4-5.6G DX VR, Hoya Pol circular Pro1 Dig.52
Exposure: f/16, 1/25 seconds
Details: Tripod: Yes
Map: view
Photo Version: Final Version, Original Version
Date Submitted: 2009-09-25 1:17