D750 - Harvest 20 Colors
Equipment Used: Nikon D750, Tamron 70-200mm f2.8 lense, Lightroom and Photoshop CC
After a long summer, this year’s harvest greeted farmers with a challenge of downed corn and low yields and while helping on the farm, I got the D750 out on our last field while the sun was setting to capture a few images.
I had the 70-200mm lense on the camera and used the long range of the lense to zoom in on Dad combining the corn and had ISO at 200 and aperture at 7.1. This allowed me to still keep the shutter speed high enough shooting into the sunset to not have motion blur on the combine.
I edited the files in Lightroom using the preset of landscape or golfcourse1 which increased the look of the sky and color of the John Deere equipment. I than used a graduated filter to increase the exposure of the corn field and combine while keeping the sky at the correct exposure. The images were than straightened and cropped before a quick edit in Photoshop. Photoshop was just used to clone out the unwanted dust spots on the lense that showed up in the sky.
The night time photographs were taken last year when a neighbor pulled into a field around the area so I got my camera out of my truck and put the 70-200mm lense and walked down the road to capture them unloading on the go in the dark. Their bean head platform hauler was next to the ditch which allowed me to rest the camera on to help with getting a sharp shot. Take notice of the big dipper above the equipment in the last image which was created by blending two different images together, one of the sky with the big dipper and the other the farm equipment and field.
Camera settings consisted of aperture of f2.8-4 and ISO 2000-3200 which allowed me to expose the combine, tractor and grain cart with the help of the bright LED’s on the equipment.
In Lightroom, I choice the preset of autumn color boost hdr to adjust the colors of the images and than increased the exposure of the image as well. A few other minor adjustments were made as well before I straightened and cropped the image.
I finished processing the images in Photoshop by using the clone and healing brush to get rid of unwanted objects in the scene.
