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The Rice Harvester...

Postby Remorhaz on Sat Jul 27, 2013 10:13 pm

Whilst riding down a country lane on our bike tour through the heart of Bali I saw this man out in his rice field tending his crop and had to stop and see if I could make some images. I stopped and smiled and motioned with my camera and he smiled in acceptance and gave me this pose so I moved in as close and as high as I could at the edge of the paddy with the longest end of the lens I had on at the time - I'm sure he's seen thousands of tourists ride by his fields :) but I was thankful he allowed this image...

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Re: The Rice Harvester...

Postby ozimax on Sat Jul 27, 2013 10:45 pm

Great candid Rodney. I've found usually that Asians are fairly accommodating when it comes to taking photos, unlike Europeans.
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Re: The Rice Harvester...

Postby biggerry on Mon Jul 29, 2013 3:01 pm

nice image of a buff old dude in the field Rodney. I like the slight pano format, the only suggestion i have is to dial back the vignettting a bit or even better make the overall size bigger such that is not so prominent in the bottom left corner where it appears very pronounced.

very ironic that he is a wearing a hat but not worried about his shirtless back :)
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Re: The Rice Harvester...

Postby Glen on Mon Jul 29, 2013 6:23 pm

Really nice image which captures the feel of the island. This image is right up there with your 'mother' image from your bike ride.
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Re: The Rice Harvester...

Postby zafra52 on Mon Jul 29, 2013 6:40 pm

Nice photo
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Re: The Rice Harvester...

Postby Remorhaz on Mon Jul 29, 2013 7:03 pm

biggerry wrote:I like the slight pano format, the only suggestion i have is to dial back the vignettting a bit or even better make the overall size bigger such that is not so prominent in the bottom left corner where it appears very pronounced


Cheers Gerry - I went back and looked at the image and I hadn't added any vignetting - it's just that this particular lens appears to vignette quite a lot (even at 120mm) - here's the same image just with the LR5 lens auto correction turned on:

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Glen wrote:Really nice image which captures the feel of the island. This image is right up there with your 'mother' image from your bike ride.


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Re: The Rice Harvester...

Postby biggerry on Mon Jul 29, 2013 7:47 pm

Remorhaz wrote:Cheers Gerry - I went back and looked at the image and I hadn't added any vignetting - it's just that this particular lens appears to vignette quite a lot (even at 120mm) - here's the same image just with the LR5 lens auto correction turned on:


wow, even the 18-200mm does not vignette like that.
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Re: The Rice Harvester...

Postby Mj on Mon Jul 29, 2013 9:30 pm

Nice classic island life image Rodney... good to see the vignetting is easily sorted when it's not wanted so it's not an issue for that lens then.
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Re: The Rice Harvester...

Postby stubbsy on Sun Aug 04, 2013 4:37 pm

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Greta imasge and I like the composition. Like Gerry I'm put off a little by that vignetting. Can LR fix it?
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Re: The Rice Harvester...

Postby Remorhaz on Sun Aug 04, 2013 5:26 pm

stubbsy wrote:Greta imasge and I like the composition. Like Gerry I'm put off a little by that vignetting. Can LR fix it?


Yep - check the second version
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Re: The Rice Harvester...

Postby stubbsy on Sun Aug 04, 2013 5:33 pm

Remorhaz wrote:
stubbsy wrote:Greta imasge and I like the composition. Like Gerry I'm put off a little by that vignetting. Can LR fix it?


Yep - check the second version


:oops: Well there you go - should have looked harder and much better :-)
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