Autumn Scene

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Not much corn left standing around here but I ran across this little strip beside a country road, with a nicely colored hillside behind it.

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Squawk said:
Errr…. Gauguin or van Gogh? I’m not sure if I love it or hate it but you certainly got my attention. Wow??
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Squawk, this was one of those shots that can probably never be repeated. It had been raining a lot and I was riding country roads mainly looking for swollen creeks and overabundant water falls. There is a small creek that follows this road and has a couple of decent falls on it. I was also looking for fall color in conjunction with the creeks and was using a CPL due to wet leaves and to help bring out their colors. The rain had stopped, it was clearing, and I ran across the strip of corn and the scene grabbed me. I snapped a few different angles and went on my way. When I started making adjustments in lightroom, it just kept bringing colors out. I think the main adjustments were contrast, shadows and white balance temp, also saturation and luminance of yellow and orange. I finished it in photoshop using possible auto tone or auto color (I do not remember), some exposure adjustment along with offset and gamma adjustment and some shadows/highlights slider adjustments. Not sure if you were asking for that dissertation or not, but it is 'how I got the shot'.

Thanks!
 
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gaknott said:
Squawk, this was one of those shots that can probably never be repeated. It had been raining a lot and I was riding country roads mainly looking for swollen creeks and overabundant water falls. There is a small creek that follows this road and has a couple of decent falls on it. I was also looking for fall color in conjunction with the creeks and was using a CPL due to wet leaves and to help bring out their colors. The rain had stopped, it was clearing, and I ran across the strip of corn and the scene grabbed me. I snapped a few different angles and went on my way. When I started making adjustments in lightroom, it just kept bringing colors out. I think the main adjustments were contrast, shadows and white balance temp, also saturation and luminance of yellow and orange. I finished it in photoshop using possible auto tone or auto color (I do not remember), some exposure adjustment along with offset and gamma adjustment and some shadows/highlights slider adjustments. Not sure if you were asking for that dissertation or not, but it is 'how I got the shot'.

Thanks!
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I want to know every shot and I really appreciate it when people add the settings, and particularly when it's not obvious what trick they used. I'm here to learn. Thanks.
 
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Squawk said:
I want to know every shot and I really appreciate it when people add the settings, and particularly when it's not obvious what trick they used. I'm here to learn. Thanks.
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As for the settings on the actual shot, I used a Nikon D850 with Nikkor 24-70 2.8 @ 34 mm, ISO was 160, f/7.1 @ 1/125 sec.
 
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