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Half a plowed snowy field with a tractor, work suspended for lunch
  • They aren't planting anything here at the moment. I looks like the field has been resting this past year and only been used for grass/silage or grazing. Most farmers here rotate their crops, so they are preparing this field to be planted with something in spring. My guess is it will be oats. The normal rotation here is oats, grass/silage, sheep grazing. --cart-Talk 21:57, 18 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]
  • This time of the year, the sun is very weak and low on the horizon (and this was the sunniest day this month!), giving long shadows and illuminating only high hills. As you can see, this is taken at 12:02:49, so the sun is at its highest and brightest. Even if I had waited to see if the light would get better (it didn't, it started to snow shortly after) the farmer would have been back from lunch and the rest of the field would have been plowed and that would have been missing the point of the photo. It is a pic of a moment and you have to make the best of what you got. You don't have the same luxury of waiting for months for perfect conditions as when you are shooting a building.
I am painfully aware of that the days are numbered for me and my small-sensor cameras since their sharpness can't compete with the rest of the cameras here. This is taken with a tripod and about as good as that camera can make landscape photos if I don't do stitched pics. With all the full-frame and big sensor cameras that are becoming more frequent here, I guess that in a year my photos won't be tolerated here due to technical shortcomings. I'll just have fun while I can. Thanks for your voting and your comments, they are always appreciated. :) --cart-Talk 09:52, 19 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]
I don't see an issue with the camera here. Just apply some sharpening during post-processing. Be careful not to increase noise too much (the smart sharpening of recent photoshop versions does a really good job at that). I know it sounds stupid, but this is something that everybody notices when looking at the photo 1:1. Don't believe me that this helps? Compare https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/archive/1/18/20131205180109%21RhB_Ge_4-4_II_Wiesener_Viadukt.jpg to https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/18/RhB_Ge_4-4_II_Wiesener_Viadukt.jpg . It's the same RAW file! (ok there were some other changes, but the difference in sharpness is really obvious) --Kabelleger (talk) 14:18, 19 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]
✓ Done Thanks for your kind advice Kabelleger. I did some additional sharpening from raw and I don't think I introduced too much extra noise. It's a bit more post-processing than I usually do but if works I'm game. Still, I can never get the level of detail you have in your example photo, since your sensor is about three times as big as mine. I don't think this will make any difference for Peulle and Granada though, since they also want me to move the sun, which is a bit more difficult. ;) Btw, this is a crop from a wider shot. I went through many crops and angles before I found one that was satisfactory with the focus on the half/half field and not on the sky or the surrounding landscape. --cart-Talk 22:06, 19 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Confirmed results:
Result: 4 support, 2 oppose, 0 neutral → not featured. /--cart-Talk 15:25, 20 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]
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