As I was driving along Taft Road, I just had to stop and get a picture of this scene. The jewel weed carpets the woods along the road and deep into the shadows. I love the texture and tone.
Photo Info: Nikon D600, Nikon 18-35mm lens @ 35mm, polarizing filter, ISO 800, f/14, 1/40″.
Elm leaves stand out in stark and colorful contrast against the grey clay of the eroding stream bank along Brush Brook.
Photo Info: Nikon D600, Nikon 18-35mm lens @ 35mm, ISO 800, f/8, 1/500″.
Morning sunlight pours over this view along in the Huntington River Valley. With all our wet weather, the corn is struggling a bit. I like the linear interaction of corn rows and the cirrus clouds.
Photo Info: Nikon D600, Nikon 18-35mm lens @ 24mm, polarizing filter, ISO 800, f/18, 1/160″
Philadelphia Fleabane catch the morning sun down along Brush Brook in Huntington.
This shot was influenced by another photographer I follow on WordPress, Paul Davis. He tends to take a lot of shots of flowers and grasses with very narrow depth of field to really hone in on his subject while allowing the bokeh to really bloom behind. It takes a really fast lens (f/1.8 or f/2.8) to accomplish this. My macro lens can pull it off, but f/4.8 was the best I could do with the lens I had on the camera at the moment. Still, the effect is there…
Photo Info: Nikon D600, Nikon 18-35mm lens @ 32mm, ISO 800, f/4.8, 1/800″
Maple sprouts pop up amongst the river stones on a recently flood-created island of rock and gravel in Brush Brook.
Photo Info: Nikon D600, Nikon 18-35mm @ 35mm, ISO 800, f/16, 1/200″
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I’m always “mining” my photos for compositional possibilities. Beyond composing “in camera” while you’re shooting (perhaps the preferred method…) creative cropping of an image can help refine and refocus the subject of your shot. Sometimes I find something completely unexpected. Here’s a case in point from some shots I took yesterday evening after heavy rain had swelled Fargo Brook, the small stream the runs through our property.
Here’s the full frame shot taken with a 24-120mm lens at 24mm, ISO 100, f/6.3, 8″ exposure:
The subject here is the whole stream flow. I like the the smoothness of the chaotic water that the long exposure offers. It’s an okay shot, but a fairly conventional one. So, I decided to snoop around a little bit to see what I could find. I thought that the wet elm leaves in the lower right corner and the rock in midstream might offer interesting possibilities. So I cropped down to this:
Now the subject is different. We’ve left the realm of the entire stream flow to focus on the rock and the wet leaves. The water becomes less of an actor than a background. And a pretty interesting one at that. Working further, I spread the field out a bit to encompass a bit more of the stream:
Now the rock and leaves take on a secondary role, and the texture of the water becomes the focus. I also like the little corner of green that seems to float in the upper right-hand corner. I like all three shots, but have to admit that the last two are more interesting to my eye. What do you think?
John Hadden Photography 