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30-SEP-2006 alexeig

Hay *

Canon EOS 5D ,Canon EF 24-70mm f/2.8L USM
1/320s f/9.0 at 27.0mm iso100 hide exif
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Date/Time30-Sep-2006 18:18:49
MakeCanon
ModelCanon EOS 5D
Flash UsedNo
Focal Length27 mm
Exposure Time1/320 sec
Aperturef/9
ISO Equivalent100
Exposure Bias
White Balance
Metering Modematrix (5)
JPEG Quality
Exposure Programshutter priority (2)
Focus Distance

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Canon DSLR Challenge04-Oct-2006 00:43
Yes, the tops do have a wonderful glow! ~ Lonnit
Guest 03-Oct-2006 22:48
Wonderful sunset and light on the ground and hay bales. In fact, the light on the top of the hay bales is so good that I wonder if you could have left the front of the hay bales in a very deep and dramatic shadow. -Michael
alexeig03-Oct-2006 15:14
Lonnit and Victor: you are right, with processing with in camera factory settings these white things were pitch black
Canon DSLR Challenge03-Oct-2006 15:01
Looks to me like these bales, and more obviously, the grass in front of them, were in deep shadow, "corrected" with the shadows/highlight tool (or other method). The sun, at this angle, would have created deep shadows this side of the bales. Maybe you can pull those shadows up a slight bit, but you tried to go way too many stops and the image quality has suffered to the point that we're seeing the sensor grid. :( Would have been better to use fill flash or bounce some light back into this side with a reflector.

What is wrong with those farmers? Don't they know they're killing the scene with those ugly white bags? LOL! Photogs Unite against bagging farmers!!!

Lonnit
Canon DSLR Challenge03-Oct-2006 03:59
Strange. When did they start wrapping hay like that? That is plastic, right? Can you explain the surprisingly strong horizontal banding on the bales? Is that part of the plastic? It seems too consistent to be that (I'd expect one bale to be rotated relative to another). On the other hand, I doubt it's the camera. If it were, I'd expect to see banding in the sky -- unless .... was there significant burning of the foreground? I'm guessing that's what it must be. That makes me wonder what it would look like if it weren't pushed so much in the foreground. Or maybe try making an HDR image. -- Victor
jnconradie02-Oct-2006 23:40
Well done with the lighting and composition. Regards ~jnconradie