An Iowa Evening

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a very nice landscape with well saturated colour details...

 

rabinder

Derrald, Beautiful shot. Excellent detail and sharpness. It's just sad that the anonymous cowards rated this a 3/3. I got hit on one of my photos today as well.

Or so 'real' I expect Iowa's famous Junebugs to emerge soon and overwhelm the poor ramshackle building, tree and everything else that they can crowd out. I presume this is a Spring photo.

 

Remarkable capture, extremely well done with excellent composition of three elements intertied on three planes for something more complicated than first appears.

 

John (Crosley)

great shot!

I like, very good frame and the light is smooth,some warm.The lower speed give us a certain dynamisn in the clouds.

If you permit me... 6/6

JUST BEAUTIFUL!!!

 

Cheers.

 

Alberto

Very nice shot, I like the cloud-pattern an the colour-saturation.

Thank you for your comments. Will, it does seem odd to me that someone would rate something with 3s and not back it up with comments or suggestions. I always enjoy receiving feedback whether it be good or bad. On this one I actually was going to try the critique-only section, but alas I forgot and let it go after I realized it.

Yeah, it's sad that there are pathetic people out there that just want to cause a stir up. Anyways, this is a fine photo. The only critism I would offer is maybe to crop off about 10% off the top just because it seems like it gets too dark as a result of the GND filter used.

Quite dream like, super image. John

Beautiful image.

 

d.

Nice composition with the interesting Building and the silhouetted tree. I really like this type of cloud, it makes for good photos. Your use of a grad ND has a neat effect, something like the clouds are being sucked away be a large vacuum just out of shot. I was looking at your portfolio and I see we've crossed paths before. Some nice work. 6/6

Love that Canon 10-22mm lens! Any sharper and it would hurt my eyes.

I really like the movement in this image and the colors. I don't know if the tree or the shed was actually leaning or this is the canting caused by the lens, but regardless, the lean of both towards the center create a wonderful movement to complement the sky that almost seems like it has been brushed by the tree. Very nicely seen.

Very beautiful picture. The sky looks absolutely wonderful. Great work.

What a stroke of luck that you could catch this beautfiful sky hanging above a lovely rural scene. I usually spy the great skies over highways and such.

 

By the way, how can I view the ratings of a photo?

 

Thanks.

John Crosley, yes, this is indeed an early spring photograph. The tree was just beginning to see signs of budding. Mona, the barn was indeed leaning a bit as it was a fairly old building, however, I do think lens added to that lean. The canon 10-22 has some amazingly low distortion at the wide end, but it is mildly evident. Ira, there was indeed some luck involved. Many times I watch the skies for a nice evening with lots of great clouds and then go out when I think it would be a good evening to photograph. This was a steller day, in my opinion. Also, to view ratings, simply click on details and then click on the actual number of ratings received. This will list what everyone has rated on a photograph. Thank you all for your comments as well. - Derrald

Derrald, thanks for the info, I kind of thought that barn looked like it had a natural lean, but actually any lens, when tilted up, will cant images inward and it will always show up more with wide angle lenses because of the distance to subject being smaller than with longer lenses.

 

I have only been to Iowa once, on a job, and although we did get to shoot in one cornfield, I was pretty much wisked between the airport and the industrial plant where we were doing most of our work. I am supposed to be back in Iowa this summer, shooting landscape, for another client and so always find photos of the area interesting, if not pretty flat--not the photos flat, the landscape!

Fantastic!

I like the warp effect of the 10-22 lens here, conveys an almost surreal atmosphere IMO. Well controlled backlight, the cloudscape with motion blur adds depth. Perhaps a slight panning to the left would have been better to give the tree more space, not a major issue. The $$ for the Singh-Ray grad ND seem to be rewarding - high quality colors. I use the Cokin grad ND, with strange color casts sometimes. BTW, what is your solution for polarizer + grad ND on this lens, handheld ?

Carsten, I would definitely have to say that the Singh-Ray filters have been some of my better investments in photography, second perhaps to the 10-22 ef-s lens ;). As far as the polarizer + grad ND, I haven't found a good way to handle this either and you have a suggestion I would love to hear it. When I use a tripod and use both the polarizer and the grad I end up holding the grad filter in front of the polarizer which ends up not being very precise or comfortable, but it works. Otherwise, as you know, there is vignetting. This photograph was handheld, but I only used the grad filter. I actually overexposed it a smidge and then darkened it slightly in post-processing. I always shoot RAW to be able to have that latitude.

Yes the handheld ND filter over the polarizer is probably the only way to avoid vignetting @10 mm, a bit tricky but it works. The sometimes strange colors with the Cokin let me do bracketing and digital ND instead, but I have ordered a 2 stop soft and a 3 stop hard Singh Ray now.