Took a trip down into Oregon this past weekend. The wheat fields inspired me to finally start shooting again.
Since I forgot to bring my own camera, I had to use Shannon's point & shoot deal to take these. Using unfamiliar cameras to do macro shots always makes me nervous; the displays on them make it seem like your shots are in focus but once you pull them off the camera and look at them on a monitor, they can sometimes be blurry.
I'd have liked to had manual focus while taking the Lady Bug shot. Her camera had a very, very hard time figuring out what to focus on. This makes sense because the auto focus on the camera is trying to find high contrast edges in a scene and then adjusting the lens to make them as sharp as possible. Since it is all wheat and the lines are all mixed up, the camera gets confused as to what should be focused on. Her camera had the "magic" mode as well as a centered focus mode. Neither could figure out what I was trying to do. I think I got the shot below by shear luck (and I'll admit to cropping it... the original was landscape, not portrait).
The only modification to these are a slight warming filter in Photoshop.
Anyway... on with the show:
Wheat, More Wheat, Yet More Wheat, and oh yeah, a Lady Bug too.
WOW, THESE ARE GREAT! I like the angle on the first one and how it captures a bit of the sky, but I just love the lighting on the third one.And me, I love ladybugs so the last is my fav!. How Beautiful wheat is!
- Walking on Sunshine
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Nice job with an unfamiliar camera. I really like the arrangement and comp of yet more wheat. The warming filter works well with the subject too.
- Film-Junkie 4 Life!
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Nice shots! I like the textures of the wheat and the sky in the background. The ladybug is my fav. :o)
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Lovely shots of the wheat. If you're going to leave your camera at home, you better get familiar with hers!
- A quack with an camera
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Lady bug is amazing considering the limitations of a "point and shoot"!
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Nice to see you shooting again Cory. I love the perspective of all of the shots. The lady bug is an added bonus!
- Smile
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The last two really stand out for me!!
- Say...CHEESE
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How'd you find the time? yet more.......for me, pretty good for a point and shoot.
- With these Hands
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Some great shots ... the last one with the lady bug is a real standout ... just goes to show - its more about who's behind the camera then the camera!! ... Well Done!!
- Out of Focus!!
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loved the angles and the simplicity of your "wheat photos" especially loved the ladybug one.great ideas and great composition. I did a similar one here in Norway but with a different wheat not too sure of the name,though. and it was a bit greener.
- evil lyndee
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The last three shots are quite nice indeed!
- blow.....hard
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A really multi talented guy. Those wheat shots are very nicely done!
- So shoot already!!
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What do ya'll think about the angle I used in that first one anyway? I wanted to make a shot with the horizon kinda skewed, but I dont think I pulled it off as good as I could have. I was thinking maybe if I took it from a higher perspective.
- The Beachmaster
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cool wheat shots, different take on them and I like.
- ©kitzi
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Maybe if you had more sky in the first one. it almost looks like something that didn't get cropped out so more might be better. Just my thoughts. I like the stormy sky showing thru the wheat in Yet more. And lady bug is cool too. Looks like you had some bright lighting to work with.
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