Wheat Field I

Used a flash to hopefully capture the wheat in the foreground. As always comments and

critiques will be greatly appreciated.

Stephen, first let me say that it is always great to find someone making creative use of flash during the day. I think everyone will admit that it lifts your photograph above the ordinary sunset image.

A great deal of this may be due to the difference in our monitor setting, but the image comes off as lacking contrast on my monitor. As a result is looses a lot of the drama that this image is capable of achieving.

I have done some work in levels and truthfully, it is a little heavy-handed but it does illustrate what can be achieved with this image. It required working on each of the three areas separately, sky, middle ground and foreground.

You have some very nice images in your portfolios, most of which take great advantage of the drama of light. This one, IMO, seems to need a little work.