Hay Bales and Landscapes…
by Rodney Campbell on Jan.26, 2012, under Life, Photography
or making Hay with Landscapes…
and a Happy Australia Day to all visitors…
Our family spent a number of days at my parents house in the Shoalhaven on the South Coast of New South Wales. Whilst driving there I noticed this paddock of lush green grass strewn with these round hay bales and since it was close by to where my parents live I figured I’d go back and spend some time composing some images with the bales.
Note: These images (especially the wider shots) look much better when larger – so click any of the images below to see larger versions in an inline overlay slideshow gallery viewer.
I took some compressed detail images with the tele – a few I liked are below…
NIKON D7000 + 70.0-300.0 mm f/4.5-5.6 @ 112 mm, 1/500 sec at f/5.6, ISO 100
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NIKON D7000 + 70.0-300.0 mm f/4.5-5.6 @ 140 mm, 1/400 sec at f/4.8, ISO 100
It was a very cloudy overcast day but the clouds were moving reasonably quickly and away from me over the mountains – in fact it appeared that the higher cloud was moving from behind me on my right and the lower cloud was moving from behind me on my left and all converging over the mountains in the distance. I put on the Tokina 12-24 ultrawide, got in close to some bales and added the 10 stop ND filter for some really long exposures to capture what I hoped would be streaks of cloud movement converging into the distance.
I got in quite close and low to the ground to emphasize the bale
NIKON D7000 + 12.0-24.0 mm f/4.0 @ 13 mm, 46 sec at f/16, ISO 100
Found a higher viewpoint (I setup the tripod on top of one of the bales :)) but which was still relatively close to another bale
NIKON D7000 + 12.0-24.0 mm f/4.0 @ 13 mm, 60 sec at f/18, ISO 100
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February 1st, 2012 on 8:12 pm
Did you use a gradient ND filter for the last photo? The purple sky looks awesome.
February 3rd, 2012 on 6:58 am
Thanks Shane – no ND Grad for this one I’m afraid – it probably could have done with one but it was hard enough dealing with the 10 stop ND 🙂 The purple sky is really mostly a factor of WB colour shift (extreme light reduction and long exposure)
March 13th, 2012 on 8:40 am
Do you have a post on how you create your HDR images? I love the last 2 images you posted here, as well as some of the great HDR images you have of buildings.
March 13th, 2012 on 11:28 am
Hi Sarah – thanks for the kind words 🙂
I don’t think I have a recent specific workflow article but thats probably a tip for me to write one up 🙂