15 seconds in the life of a linseed crop

I had been watching these whispy clouds all morning whilst working

outdoors and decided to try for some exposures on my lunch break.

This is a 15 second exposure taken inside a field of flowering linseed

with a fisheye lens with me hand holding the ND filter in front of the

lens during the exposure.

I'm lucky in that the clouds were moving very fast, driven by upper

atmospheric wind but at ground level air was still and hot with the

light so very clear - but I failed to clean the dust particles off the

front of the fisheye lens hence the small flares near the sunburst.

I'm very pleased to have captured a few really twisted / twirling

cloud margins in this particular exposure, the clouds did this all day

- something I've not seen like this until this opportunity.

Wow, that's a really cool effect with the clouds!  A great composition.

Matthew, so long exposure with the sun in the frame might harm your sensor! I wonder how can flowers be not blurred with wind and 15 sec of exposure!

PDE

Unbelievable effect! Is this just one shot, or you did take one extra shot for f/g and blended arter that. And why iso 400 in a bright day in front of sun? A compelling shot! Bravo.

Hamid.

Thanyou Dominic, thanyou Pierre.

Pierre,  it was like being in an oven at ground level, despite the winds higher up there was not a breath of air to be had at ground level, the sun was very bright, quite stiffling conditions where I was shooting from.

Hamid,  this is just one exposure, I used the dodge tool in PS to bring out some of the darker sections of the trees in the background and I had to adjust the WB a little as the 10 stop ND filter tends to throw a blue cast on the image.

I find ISO 400 delivers better dynamic range than the base ISO of 200.  I probably should have re-set ISO to 200 for this exposure but i was in my lunch break and was rushing things along a bit.

Very nice. Well worth your patience.