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    Crop Spraying

    Took this one a while back, there was a lot of noise on this so i have tried to clean it up best i can,
    c+c welcome as always.

    Thanks for looking

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    Re: Crop Spraying

    The composition I really like. Not so keen on the pp treatment that's left that, to me, an over-tonemapped/painterly appearance. But that all comes down to subjectivity and personal taste/preferences.

    But OI do think it really works that you placed the sprayer up at that top of the frame and let the crop be the dominant feature.

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    Re: Crop Spraying

    Hi James,

    Why was it as noisy as you say? Seems to be a bright day with no need to use high ISO. Did you perhaps crop to much?

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    Re: Crop Spraying

    Th EXIF says Fuji Finepix S1500 at iso64, 1/350s, f/5 and "61.5mm" focal length (but it probably needs a crop factor multiplier of about 5 on that number, making it closer/over 300mm).

    Looks to have been a warm-ish day and shot (+ cropped?) at a long focal length, judging by the heat haze distortions on the tank lettering - I have seen just this effect on my long focal length (bridge camera) shots.

    I agree about the processing looking a bit artificial, although the black point could be set a little lower, which would help a bit.
    The red histogram looks like it may have clipped on the red panels, removing any texture there and possibly partly contributing to the painterly look.

    I like the composition and the shadow of the spray boom helps the image.

    Cheers,

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    Re: Crop Spraying

    It's a very nice composition James, too bad you were limited by your camera capabilities.

    I like the "continuation" of the red vehicle by the red flowers (poppies?) in the dame line.

    A tip: since this is a problematic image because of noise, PP etc don't provide us with a large image .

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    Re: Crop Spraying

    Thank you all for your comments, i really appreciate them.
    I'm pretty sure the noise was something i did wrong rather than the camera, however that particular camera and myself never really got on,

    Regards

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