Photography
Rolled Gold » Fri, Jun 15th 2007 1:16 pm
Technically, this photo could serve as evidence of my trespassing on this farmer’s field, but I HAD TO.
This guy was perched atop a bale of hay about 100 feet into the field, so I slowly made my way to it, begging him to stay put while I kept my eyes peeled for angry, gun-toting farmers.
This shot was taken with my camera on the ground and my face buried in dirt and hay while I tried to get an eye to the viewfinder. Success!
1 Tyler on Fri, Jun 15th 2007 4:29 pm
Why were you down in the dirt and hay? Not enough light for handheld?
2 Aaron on Fri, Jun 15th 2007 4:35 pm
I wanted the “down low” perspective, and I was trying to stay hidden. Heh.
3 Tyler on Sun, Jun 17th 2007 8:57 am
Ah, right on. Well it worked! I like it!
Just a side note: the “notify me” didn’t work. I didn’t recive the email with your reply.
4 Tyler on Sun, Jun 17th 2007 8:59 am
And by “recive” I mean “receive”.
5 Andrew on Wed, Jul 11th 2007 5:40 pm
i really really like the vignetting and the way you chose to level the top of the “roll” instead of the horizon is great. awesome photo.
6 Nehm4 on Sun, Jul 22nd 2007 4:12 pm
You probably don’t remember me. bleh I commented a while back about some javascript code, and about a picture of a swingset. Anyways, REALLY cool picture. This would make a great website header. Really, the haybell has a “fake” effect. But that’s awesome in a way. How did you do that? Did you edit it any?
7 Aaron on Sun, Jul 22nd 2007 5:13 pm
Howdy “Nehm4”. I do remember you, yes. Questioned the contrast on the swing photo, I think? I could probably just go read it, but meh. Haha.
Anyway, this photo’s a single-exposure HDR. Basically, the RAW file was used to create multiple “pseudo exposures” of the scene, and then those exposures were merged into what you see here, sort of. I did do some editing in Photoshop. Sharpening, some colour adjustments, and the vignetting.