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A herd of Black Angus peacefully ruminating on a green sunlit hillside uncaring of the ominous clouds above. The herd was very co-operative in following the graphics in the image.
A herd of Black Angus peacefully ruminating on a green sunlit hillside uncaring of the ominous clouds above. The herd was very co-operative in following the graphics in the image.
Bovine Field Strength
Bovine Field Strength
Bovine Field Strength
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Bovine Field Strength

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A herd of Black Angus peacefully ruminating on a green sunlit hillside uncaring of the ominous clouds above. The herd was very co-operative in following the graphics in the image

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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 C147 and as I got to the crest of a hill ready to rejoin the main path to my destination I spotted these cows on a hillside to the right of the road.

I pulled off onto the verge and got out with camera in hand fitted with my 70-200mm. I stood for several minutes taking in the scene and watching a patch of sunlight moving over the landscape towards the cows. 

The shot is handheld taken while resting against a telegraph pole on the side of the road and just as that patch of sunlight passes across the hillside. I love the way the cows appear to be held by some invisible force in that triangular formation. Some how it reminds me of iron filings on a magnet - hence the title of the image.

Shot Location

The Shot

I guess there is planning as a process which starts long before the event and then there is planning which happens almost simultaneous to the event itself. This photograph is one of those latter types of planning.

I saw these cows gathered on a hillside and at the same time saw a patch of sunlight rolling across the hills towards them. In this case planning was nothing more than “I want a shot of those cows, lit by the oncoming sun with the dark sky behind them”. 

Five minutes later that's what I had

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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: f8.0

ISO: 125

Focal Length: 200 mm

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

Shutter: 1/1600, 1/800, 1/400, 1/200, 1/100, 1/50, 1/25

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
    • strong deghosting to deal with moving cows
  • 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 background landscape to bring out more detail in the trees
  • There was a contrast and clarity adjustment to the clouds to accentuate the difference between the darker and lighter portions
  • The spot healing tool was used clean up the image to its bare graphical elements by removing
    • electric fences
    • power poles
    • cows (only 2) which had not “co-operated” with the deghosting process
  • The image was cropped in to a square format as the original was “overweight” in the sky and it better suited the angular graphics of the image

A graphic of the shot's layout structure

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