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An earthy field after discing. The early morning sun casting a long shadow from a lone tree as the pigeons take advantage of the tilled soil. Taken in the hinterland to the south of Devonport in Tasmania, Australia.
An earthy field after discing. The early morning sun casting a long shadow from a lone tree as the pigeons take advantage of the tilled soil. Taken in the hinterland to the south of Devonport in Tasmania, Australia.
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An earthy field after discing. The early morning sun casting a long shadow from a lone tree as the pigeons take advantage of the tilled soil. Taken in the hinterland to the south of Devonport in Tasmania, Australia

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How this shot came about.

Sometimes photography by driving around can yield some very interesting results. After a while everything the photographer sees is framed as a possible image worthy (or not) of capture. This shot is certainly one of those more worthy ones.

I was moving slowly on country roads to the South of Devenport taking in the scenes, watching the light and looking for photo opportunities. I had decided to take a shortcut on the C133. The road traveled along the top of a crest overlooking a field sloping up and away from the road. The discing of the field had just been completed when the sun came out in force and I saw the tractor come to rest at the top of the far hill.

I was already taken with the color contrasts in what I saw so I pulled off onto the verge and got out with camera in hand fitted with my 70-200mm. I moved up and down the road looking for the best angle from which to take the shot before settling on this position. I took two shots of this scene, one with the lower trees and one without - this one wins, compositionally.

This shot is the first of a five shot series from my trip entitled "The Elements" and represents the first element, Earth. I love all the elements of this shot, the soft sky, the rich earth, the lone tree with its long shadow, the little tractor subsumed by the scale of the scene and the plethora of pigeons feasting on what had been revealed by the tilling.


Shot Location

The Shot

This is what I call “planning by driving around” as without being out and about you're never in a position to take advantage of that special moment.

I drove past this field just as the farmer pulled up his tractor and the pigeons settled onto the recently tilled soil

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Gear

Camera: Canon EOS R5

Lens: Canon RF 70-200mm f2.8 L IS USM

Storage: ProGrade Cobalt CF Express B 325Gb

Ballhead: Really Right Stuff BH-40

Tripod: Really Right Stuff TFC-34L Mk2

Cable Release: Canon BR-E1 Bluetooth Remote

ND Filter: None

Exposures

Count: 7

HDR Count: 7 exposures per shot

Aperture: f13

ISO: 100

Focal Length: 135 mm

EV values: -3, -2, -1, 0, 1, 2, 3

Shutter: 1/400, 1/200, 1/100, 1/50, 1/25, 1/13, 1/6

Filters

ND Filter: Not used

Gradient Filter: false

Polarizer: false

Image

Rows: 1

Shots: 0

HDR Shots: 1

Aspect: Portrait

Arrangement: 1x1

Post Production

Basic Workflow

  • I used Lightroom to stitch the 7 HDR exposures together into a single image.
    • Deghosting was set to High to deal with branch movements in the distant tree
  • I passed the image through Topaz DeNoiseAI 
    • removing CCD artifacts from the image particularly in the clouds

Image Adjustment

  • Once I was satisfied with the results there was a pass through Topaz SharpenAI
    • A light pass across the whole image 
    • A masked pass using slightly stronger settings across the clouds
    • There was also a contrast adjustment to the clouds
  • The trees in the foreground have had a slight color adjustment to match their hue to the trees in the distance 
  • The image was cropped 
    • to bring the field edge to edge on the image
    • to reduce the visual “weight” of the trees in the foreground

A graphic of the shot's layout structure

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