Farming photography

[Cowabunga]

Even table-top & still life, or perhaps a bit of portraiture?

Of course. Don’t limit yourself. Portraits are great, or can be with a nice background, a bright lens around the 90mm full frame equivalent and f2.8, ideally f1.8

Try still life using a roll of paper under the subject and extending up behind it.

Hmmm, the camera; or me?

Camera! Although, if something gives you a reason to look forward to the next day, it surely does you good.

 

[Christoph1945]

Just opened one of my old files and here are a couple of very amateur snaps; I suppose there could be purists that would slate my work, for any number of technical reasons. I would be interested to see some of the work that you folk are capturing.

 

[Great In Grass]

I pretty much permanently have a bag containing my Fuji XT3 and a selection of lenses with me, it's surprising the thing you come across in a days work

I've recently traded my Fuji X-Pro2 for a new Fuji X-T3 (was going X-Pro3 but felt wrong for me). Haven't had a chance to use it in anger yet hopefully this coming weekend.

Also, have a Fuji X-E2 which with the kit lens (18mm-55mm) would make an excellent and cheap carry round kit. The Nikon D800 I use for a lot of landscape work.

 

[Cowabunga]

Random selection taken mostly by M4/3 cameras. I think there are some by G6, G7, GX80, E-M10 in there.

 

[Pheasant Surprise]

A well worn out truisim, but the best camera is definitely the one in your pocket.

This would simply be your phone for 99% of us, 99% of the time. So make sure it’s a half decent one!

 

[Phil P]

I’ve found I really like the twin camera on the iPhone as you can blur all the crap out in the background ?

It’s always there for those random pics to.

 

[Christoph1945]

Your phone looks to be an interesting bit o' kit Phil. I took the liberty of lifting the bird picture, cropping it, and pushing it to A3 size in jpeg format; it could probably go larger but that was enough to convince me that an iPhone should go on my Santa wish list. I did the same with Cowabunga's wedding pic and hope you guys don't mind.

I will not be keeping said pics and will delete them asap.

 

[Christoph1945]

And here is Cowabunga's wedding photograph with the same treatment.

 

[Phil P]

Your phone looks to be an interesting bit o' kit Phil. I took the liberty of lifting the bird picture, cropping it, and pushing it to A3 size in jpeg format; it could probably go larger but that was enough to convince me that an iPhone should go on my Santa wish list. I did the same with Cowabunga's wedding pic and hope you guys don't mind.

I will not be keeping said pics and will delete them asap.

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Thanks, you’re welcome to keep the picture if you like, the bird was just sat there when I came out the house, got so close I could have almost picked it up!

 

[Christoph1945]

It's all a bit of a challenge for me at the moment; getting up a head of steam and getting my photographic gear in order. I do have an A3 printer and will try and print off and laminate both your bird picture and Cowabunga's wedding picture and if successful would be more than happy to pop them in the post, as a thank you to you both.

Chris

 

[Cowabunga]

It's all a bit of a challenge for me at the moment; getting up a head of steam and getting my photographic gear in order. I do have an A3 printer and will try and print off and laminate both your bird picture and Cowabunga's wedding picture and if successful would be more than happy to pop them in the post, as a thank you to you both.

Chris

Mine won't look good on A3 I'm afraid. Certainly not the cropped one. I upload at a much reduced file size to original as it is, and a crop, expanded, will be very blocky as a result. But you are welcome to try. I'm sure you'll see what I mean though, even if you just expand that crop on screen.

Not that many A3 photo printers around. Did you buy it specifically for photography?

Tell you what, I'll upload a couple of full resolution ones just now.




That took longer than I expected. About five minutes each instead of ten seconds for low resolution pictures. I remember now, partly why I usually only post low resolution files.
The first one was taken by a f1.8 portrait lens at f1.8. If you look carefully you will see that sharp focus is only about three inches deep. A bit too shallow.

 

[Christoph1945]

What a beautiful fresh and crisp picture of a happy young couple, looking so vibrant and alive. You have captured them perfectly and avoided any background distraction; superbly in my eye and I didn't even notice any shallow depth of focus that you wrote of.

I did buy the A3 inkjet printer for photographic work and also use an A4 inkjet printer; nothing special, believe me you! I liked your shot of the digger feeding the big fire but did wonder if all that wood may have been better off in a wood burning stove.

Having said the above, you may just have provided a spark to light a photographic fire under me; thanks.

 

[Scribus]

The basics of photography apply whatever you take the picture with and whatever effects the camera may apply. At the end of the day it's all about light, that has to be got right first. I was doing a wee bit this morning, a dull day with cold showers, mixing flash and ambient to get something presentable for a client, it's not something I would have left the camera to decide.

And then there comes the colour, even with a good full frame Nikon I still need to sharpen them up in Photoshop before release. Apple products do tend to flatter the image when shown on their screens, but take them away from that environment and the intensity fades.

One from last year (and I've just noticed a wee problem with it).

 

[Scribus]

Just opened one of my old files and here are a couple of very amateur snaps; I suppose there could be purists that would slate my work, for any number of technical reasons. I would be interested to see some of the work that you folk are capturing.

Not that bad. I used to do a bit of judging at club level and that chair would have certainly have caught my eye, but the label lets it down. The dinosaur is an interesting composition as well.

 

[Christoph1945]

The basics of photography apply whatever you take the picture with and whatever effects the camera may apply. At the end of the day it's all about light, that has to be got right first. I was doing a wee bit this morning, a dull day with cold showers, mixing flash and ambient to get something presentable for a client, it's not something I would have left the camera to decide.

And then there comes the colour, even with a good full frame Nikon I still need to sharpen them up in Photoshop before release. Apple products do tend to flatter the image when shown on their screens, but take them away from that environment and the intensity fades.

One from last year (and I've just noticed a wee problem with it).

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When you say problem, are you talking composition or print quality?

 

[Scribus]

A well worn out truisim, but the best camera is definitely the one in your pocket.

This would simply be your phone for 99% of us, 99% of the time. So make sure it’s a half decent one!

F8 and be there.

 

[Scribus]

When you say problem, are you talking composition or print quality?

Dust mark on the sensor. I'm always missing them!

 

[Christoph1945]

PS...……...I know Red Tractor isn't popular with some farmers!

 

[Great In Grass]

PS...……...I know Red Tractor isn't popular with some farmers!

Reds not popular with some camera sensors either!

 

[Christoph1945]

Dust mark on the sensor. I'm always missing them!

Didn't even see them but then again I do have glaucoma and cataracts and passed on new specs until they sort out the cataracts. Did often have problems with dust in my monochrome enlarger but always tried to sort it out in the enlarger rather than spotting out prints afterwards.