Harvest

[lovelife65]

Summer harvest in the Valley (posted here because people are the story here IMO... even tho tiny in scale).

[Manfred M]

Nice overall shot that looks like it would make a good establishing shot for a photo-essay on the harvest. Following this image with some closeups of the activity happening in the field would be really interesting.

I find that the image needs the mid-tones brought down a bit and perhaps a bit of work to bring out some of the textures in the clouds.

[lovelife65]

Nice overall shot that looks like it would make a good establishing shot for a photo-essay on the harvest. Following this image with some closeups of the activity happening in the field would be really interesting.

I find that the image needs the mid-tones brought down a bit and perhaps a bit of work to bring out some of the textures in the clouds.

Thank you sir manfred for your comments.
Would love to get closer in and talk. I do not know Spanish unfortunately.
And I don’t know about Canada but lots of tensions in the farm worker vs farm owner community in many cases. Doubt I’d be allowed unless signing a waiver not to use against the owners.
Recent deaths and mistreatment, worker protests etc. mean risky to take photos in general... I got yelled at by security for grabbing a couple of pics of the worker housing on a farm that’s had lots of problems. I almost went to work for them as a food safety manager, I know them well.i May keep trying to grab more and better photos throughout the summer tho.

[FootLoose]

Time to spoil yourself with a telephoto lens, then, so you can continue to practice your art from a safe distance.

[lovelife65]

Time to spoil yourself with a telephoto lens, then, so you can continue to practice your art from a safe distance.

I currently have two primes... a 21 (35 crop) which this photo is from (I wanted to capture the sheer number of workers in the field, many on their hands and knees in the rain, which looking at the image is not as effective as I’d like), and a 90 (135 crop), which I can use for better shots of individual workers. The 21 is a good street lens, and can fit big barns on the edge of roads as well.

Thanks for your comments, appreciated.

[Shadowman]

Nice, animated capture.

[RBSinTo]

Sharon,
This shot doesn't work for me. It is taken from a vantage point too far away for the viewer to have any idea what is happening in the field. My first thought was it was a competition of some sort with groups of animals and their owners. Even after being told what is actually happening, there is no "feel" to the shot. Are the workers hot and sweaty, doing back-breaking work? Are they happy while they toil in the field? Is the produce they pick wonderfully ripe and delicious? Questions with no answers.
The fine photojournalist/combat photographer Robert Capa said "If your pictures aren't good enough it's because you're not close enough" (in both physical and intellectual senses) and I respectfully suggest that is the case here.
Robert

[DanK]

I'm afraid I agree with Robert about this one. In addition to the fact that the things of interest are tiny, more than 60% of the image is the sky, which is in this case almost entirely featureless. You wrote that the people are the point of interest, but they are barely discernible. The most noticeable thing for the eye to grab onto is what seems to be a porta-potty on the left. This shot needed either a longer lens or a closer position IMHO.

[lovelife65]

Robert and Dan, thanks. agreed. I definitely should have chosen a different lens, as what I aimed to achieve did not happen. There is always another day.
Robert, fair enough on the quote, although I'm not a huge fan of it in the physical sense in some genres of photography.

[RBSinTo]

Robert and Dan, thanks. agreed. I definitely should have chosen a different lens, as what I aimed to achieve did not happen. There is always another day.
Robert, fair enough on the quote, although I'm not a huge fan of it in the physical sense in some genres of photography.

Sharon,
To an extent Capa's quote is a generalization, and doesn't apply in many instances, but I only cited it here because in this case I felt it does apply.
Robert