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Re: Cycling: wheatfields

Posted: 10 Aug 2012, 23:49
by airboatr
emfrat wrote:
airboatr wrote: Not a speck of grain in your photos.
:lol: I was going to say"There's acres of it!" and then I thought "Nah...."

MikeW :hide:
I was going so say something along those Mike, ..like

Hey Ian you need a new camera. Your pictures have loads of grain in them.

But I decided to be nice. :)
:lol:


B)smk

Re: Cycling: wheatfields

Posted: 11 Aug 2012, 00:32
by Garry Russell
It was a corny joke anyways...Still, a-maize-ing pics :)

Re: Cycling: wheatfields

Posted: 11 Aug 2012, 01:08
by emfrat
airboatr wrote:
emfrat wrote:
airboatr wrote: Not a speck of grain in your photos.
:lol: I was going to say"There's acres of it!" and then I thought "Nah...."

MikeW :hide:
I was going so say something along those Mike, ..like

Hey Ian you need a new camera. Your pictures have loads of grain in them.

But I decided to be nice. :)
:lol:


B)smk
:lol: :thumbsup:

Re: Cycling: wheatfields

Posted: 11 Aug 2012, 01:18
by airboatr
right o Mike ;)

Garry Russell wrote:It was a corny joke anyways...Still, a-maize-ing pics :)
:lol:
You're the Image

Re: Cycling: wheatfields

Posted: 11 Aug 2012, 07:01
by speedbird591
Oh, go on, you lot. Have your fun.

It's all grist to the mill as far as I'm concerned.

As a photographer, I'm out standing in my field.

Ian Image

Re: Cycling: wheatfields

Posted: 11 Aug 2012, 10:08
by Garry Russell
There was a local Scarecrow that won a prize for being oustanding in his field :)

Re: Cycling: wheatfields

Posted: 11 Aug 2012, 15:38
by speedbird591
I've been out again today to a different area. I told you the wheat was ready for harvesting and they're busy at it now. So no more wheat and poppy photos for a whole year. Never mind, here are today's to keep you going :lol:

At the bottom of a tricky hill I found a mountain biker with a broken collarbone who'd been brought off by tree roots. I was feeling a bit smug as I'd just ridden them and didn't have a broken collarbone. I really wanted to take a photo of him because I knew you'd want me to but I couldn't think of the right way to ask him :lol:

Image
Image
Image

Ian :)

Re: Cycling: wheatfields (exciting new poppy photos!)

Posted: 11 Aug 2012, 18:17
by Tako_Kichi
Love the depth of field in the first shot Ian. :welldone:

You've probably said this before but what camera gear are you using?

Re: Cycling: wheatfields (exciting new poppy photos!)

Posted: 11 Aug 2012, 18:46
by GHD
Most of the wheat and barley has been harvested around here. Perhaps because we haven't had so much rain.

Re: Cycling: wheatfields (exciting new poppy photos!)

Posted: 11 Aug 2012, 20:42
by speedbird591
Tako_Kichi wrote:Love the depth of field in the first shot Ian. :welldone:

You've probably said this before but what camera gear are you using?
Hi Larry. Thanks for your comments. Nothing fancy as far as equipment goes. I need something small to pop in my backpack as I have to carry it around for two or three hours while I'm biking.

It's a Canon Powershot G12. I assume you meant the first of the last batch of pictures (the harvesting)? I used Av aperture priority and set the aperture to the maximum f8 and the camera set a speed of 1/250. ISO was 100 and the zoom was about 100mm. I hand hold and rely on the IS as I can't carry a tripod on the bike. This is the biggest problem as I'm usually out of breath and there's usually a wind blowing :lol: I shoot in RAW and use Canon's basic software for simple cropping, sharpening, brightness and colour tweaks.

Ian :)