Ploughing

[readingr]

Opinions please?

[SmartWombat]

I still want horses and a man guiding the plough.
OK, that's unrealistic (except in Belgium) so I'd settle for a tractor instead of the 4wd flatbed.

Doesn't really do much for me.
It's a disc harrow I think, not a plough

Now if it had been a late evening silhouette with that dust backlit, I'd like it more.
But using a flatbed (unimog?) instead of a tractor, it just doesn't look 'right' for my perception of farming.

[jar_e]

I agree with Smart Wombat on this one, it just doesn't seem like an 'ideal' farming/ploughing shot. For colors, it's looking pretty good, the machine it's self seems a tad pixely, but that's just probably the jpeg compression/resizing. Interesting shot.

Jared

[jcharris]

Hello Roger ,

I also need to agree with already mentioned opinions.
It is a very interesting shot , maybe a bit too dark and the horizon is a bit tilted.

Regards
james

[gahspidy]

Hey Roger, It's not a special kind of shot but not bad either. Might make a descent stock photo to be used by a local paper or something. i like trucks and tractors, and all kinds of machines so for me its appealing to see the big thready tires and the dust kickin up. I'm feeling that you cloned out something in the sky above the tractor? If so , what was it.

[opus]

where are you that the driver is on the right?


This shot really doesn't do anything emotional for me either. What was your objective in getting the shot? What is it that you'd like us to see?

[readingr]

Thanks for all the replies - I have no beef with any of the comments.

The reason for taking the photo - I was wasting time and could not find anything to photo. This was a spur of the moment photo, I liked the colours and the dust being kicked up and that I had never seen a truck (flat bed) pulling a harrow and that is about it really. This goes to show that you really need to think about the photographs you take from message you want to present to the user.

Paul - Thanks for the correct term - always wanted to know what that device is called.

Gary, - Obviously I need to parctice a lot more at this cloning business. Well spotted. There was a tree behind the hedge which looked as if it was coming out of the top of the cab.

[gahspidy]

Roger, sometimes its the shots that we don't think were the good ones that turn out to be our best. there were many times when i went out to shoot a specif subject and then happened upon something else that turned out to be the best of the day.
This is really not bad at all. I could see this in a book on agricultural and construction equipment. Lots of people like that kind of stuff, as do I, and if I were looking through a book such as that and came across this image it would hold my attention.

[Seb]

Opinions please?

Hello Roger,

I must agree with everything that was said here. I tried to play a little with your picture for fun. I am not exactly a post processing reference so perhaps I made more harm to your picture than anything else but I feel like sharing my take on it.

The exposure of this one is odd to say the least (look at your histogram). I couldn't adjust levels at all. Nevertheless, I sharpened it a little and tried to bring the sky a little more.

Regards

Seb

[readingr]

Not been responding for a couple of days so sorry for the delay -

Seb
I looked at the levels when I first played with the photo - I adjusted then and then set them back to the way they were as the picture was better out of the camera! Weired

Agree with you about the sky and you did a good job of it. Must have a little play again

Gary
Thanks for the encouragement - the rest of the photos taken on the day were so bad they got binned.

Thanks to all for commenting much appreciated