John Chardine
01-09-2009, 07:51 PM
Not the Hay Barn, but I have tried to portray the area around my home. The Tantramar was settled by the French over 400 years ago. They built dykes to keep out the highest tides in the world (50+ feet) and drained salt marsh to create hay fields. Hay was the gasoline/petrol of the day because it was what the draught animals ran on. The Acadians were eventually expelled by the British and some ended up as "Cajuns" in Louisiana (many died on the expulsion journey south). The barns in this image were built later on to store the loose hay. There were hundreds of them and now there are a lot fewer because they are not being conserved. We have terrific winds here and recently a "blow" toppled at least one barn I am aware of.
I made the image with a telephoto to try to obtain a hazy feel and in further processing I attempted to retain this soft look. I cropped and applied Curves, and removed a couple of distant telephone poles. I dodged the sky a bit by creating a layer mask.
Canon EOS 50D, 70-200 mm f4 IS, 1.4 tcII @ 241 mm.
capture date: Friday, January 9, 2009 9:38:34 AM
exposure program: Aperture Priority
ISO speed: 400
shutter speed: 1/1250
aperture: f7.1
exposure bias: +0.3
metering: Pattern
flash: OFF
I made the image with a telephoto to try to obtain a hazy feel and in further processing I attempted to retain this soft look. I cropped and applied Curves, and removed a couple of distant telephone poles. I dodged the sky a bit by creating a layer mask.
Canon EOS 50D, 70-200 mm f4 IS, 1.4 tcII @ 241 mm.
capture date: Friday, January 9, 2009 9:38:34 AM
exposure program: Aperture Priority
ISO speed: 400
shutter speed: 1/1250
aperture: f7.1
exposure bias: +0.3
metering: Pattern
flash: OFF