Black Dirt Onion Field

Jovo

This is a lovely image.

Phill

Very eyecatching.

Sounds like a great idea. That area has already changed so much in the last several years asfFarmers have sold their land to developers for tract housing. It is a shame. Pine Island is famous for the delicious Onions and Potatoes that grow in that Black dirt.
Keep posting as the project progresses.

jovo,
go to the gallery in warwick and look at work by david silver. I've started a series of work there but since I am back in NM, well, the project stopped.

Great photo! Keep making these pictures. We have the same problem here on the Eastern Shore of the Chesapeake Bay. There is no was to stop it and little can be done to control it. It is in the hands of the developers and the politiians (who have their respective hands in the other's pocket).

What a nice image. I hope you do document the beauty of this region for posterity. Beyond making photographs for your own gratification, it might serve a greater good by increasing awareness in your viewers of the potential loss. Reminds me of the tremendous work David Plowden has done in his various book projects. Thank you for sharing your photograph and I look forward to seeing more of them as you go.

Beautiful image, very well printed.The canal down the center works where I would usually stay away from that type of compsition. However to get it to the next level I think it needs another element. The canal kinds of leads the eye to an open area. I was kind of looking for more.

thank you all for your helpful and kind comments. Gerald...In the actual print, there are two tractors at the far end of the field, which in a big enough enlargement, will be more visible. Thank you again.

It doesn't jump out and grab me (but that's probably not the intention in any case ...). The tones of the field are too close to those of the sky to have an impact.

Looking at the image, my guess is you wanted to use the leading lines of the ploughed field to draw the viewer into the scene. To help delineate those lines, I think a green filter should have been used (in addition to or instead of your polariser). A green filter would have made the grass blades relatively lighter and improved their texture.

I'm not quite sure I'd choose to have the bright white drainage ditch so centralised either, but that's up to you. Overall, it's a pleasant scene.

Graeme

i had thought to use a green filter, but because the dirt is black...i mean really black...i thought there'd be plenty of contrast without one...which was true...but not for the value of the sky which was intensely blue, and as you note, graeme, too close in value to the plants. i am improving my ability to judge values despite color, but i've obviously got a way to go. thanks; a very useful critique.