Cotton country

[norwest]

I've been a stranger to the forum for quite a while because of commitments, and had the camera out very little, so I thought I'd post some shots from last year just before cotton harvesting season.

This particular crop won the grower the Namoi region grower of the year award. Judged on quality and yield. Shot at dusk.



The same crop as the first shot, taken late afternoon from the east in an attempt to catch the effect of the back light on the cotton that's looks brilliant to the eye. The shot doesn't do it justice.



An attempt at a 2 shot manual blend, about an hour after sunset.

[dervish16]

I love image number three. With the cotton crop, orange sunset, moon and the silhouette of the background trees. Amazing work

[aim54x]

Its been a long time, but it definitely has been worth it!!

This is a great set, with strong colours and detail as well as good composition.

I agree that #3 is the winner!!

[biggerry]

An attempt at a 2 shot manual blend, about an hour after sunset.

premo stuff, it could also work as pano crop with the horizon as a line of symmetry. The only thing to improve the compositions would be to work on getting a line from teh cotton crop to lead from the foreground to teh horizon, there seems to be some hints of rows in the field but its hard to tell.

[surenj]

Wow great vistas!

#3 catches the eye the most with it's 3 elements. Personally though I don't think the orange and the blue match. They seem a little discordant in my eyes. Who am I to critique nature?

[Big V]

Loving the first and last in this set.

[zafra52]

I like the first one best for colour , composition
and depth of field.

[Willy wombat]

I really enjoyed the subject material here. Love that agricultural landscape

[spesh]

Really like the first and the third for different reasons on each. Color / DoF etc are brilliant

[norwest]

An attempt at a 2 shot manual blend, about an hour after sunset.

premo stuff, it could also work as pano crop with the horizon as a line of symmetry. The only thing to improve the compositions would be to work on getting a line from teh cotton crop to lead from the foreground to teh horizon, there seems to be some hints of rows in the field but its hard to tell.

Yes, Gerry, they're in rows, in most cases klms long. At the stage you see above, the cotton plants tend to blend together and somewhat hide the rows, though they are there I and could have done better. Next years crop They have the winter crops in at the moment. Wheat and legumes. I''ll give them a go when they gain some growth.

I love image number three. With the cotton crop, orange sunset, moon and the silhouette of the background trees. Amazing work

I actually didn't notice the moon when I initially framed the shot, but that's just between you and I, ok?

#3 catches the eye the most with it's 3 elements. Personally though I don't think the orange and the blue match. They seem a little discordant in my eyes. Who am I to critique nature?

Sureng, I try to order the sky colours of choice, but it's not working yet. We are lucky with every cloudless sky to have an orange dusk, only the intensity varies. At present it's been raining for the last 48 hours and we now have local river and creeks warnings. Only a bleak, grey and wet dusk tonight.

Loving the first and last in this set.

I like the first one best for colour , composition
and depth of field

My preference is the first also. Just not overly pleased with the sky.

I really enjoyed the subject material here. Love that agricultural landscape

Lots of it here, willy, as far as the eye can see and I don't take advantage of it as much as I should.

Thankyou all for the comments.

[Killakoala]

They are all really interesting images with an unusual subject matter that we don't see very often. Reminds me of a trip I took up through Moree many years ago. The land looks like snowfields.

[norwest]

They are all really interesting images with an unusual subject matter that we don't see very often. Reminds me of a trip I took up through Moree many years ago. The land looks like snowfields.

I'm about an hour west of the path you would have taken.

[biggerry]

My preference is the first also. Just not overly pleased with the sky.

ya need a GND filter on that one, I reckon that would have improved the sky immensly!