Still meandering on Monday :) I cropped a big chunk of sky off this one to try and balance the picture. There was not a breath of wind which made it easier to get the grain fairly well defined.
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I think.. in my ever so humble (and omnipotent :oP) opinion..
... the crop you performed, was a judicious one.
Good good balance and visual weight.
Colour is nice and vibrant. No apparent noise to my eyes, either. Good good stuff.
Caveats?
Have to forgive me here, Lyn.. as I can't recall the exact camera(s) you have in hand. Their individual specs.. on the note of in-camera functions with respect to possible Sharpness settings.
If I might suggest.. either, one.. turn down in-camera Sharpness and relegate that to that of post processing/editing more so.
Or.. while post-processing/editing.. being more mindful of Image Resizing, as well as and perhaps more importantly, Image Resizing and the Resampling options available to you via your image editor.
(Oh, and that of any Sharpening techniques/methods employed.)
Let's see if I can find the relevant tutorial/article..
(/\ This is for Photoshop, however and whichever image editor you are using.. things should be similar.)
Long story short.. Sharpening ... courtesy of UPDIG Photographers Guidelines.
(/\ The 'short' being.. I didn't attempt to 'splain things (which is never.. ahem.. 'short').)
/\ Some creative food for thought for you.
As the grain is just on the border.. in my opinion.. of being over-sharpened. Feel you could dial things back a tad and not have your image here suffer any real loss of detail/clarity in the viewer's eyes.
That stuff aside..
Very nice shot. Sincerely.
And but, of course.. thanks for sharing this one with us. :o)
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This image is right down my alley Lyn. If you were going for a natural image I would say a tad overboard with sharpening but from viewing it full screen I see a lot of relief involved as to give it a painted texture feeling. That makes a gorgeous painting. Anyway I'm saving it in my painted images file.:)
I like how this turned out Lyn, the wheat is fine pencil sharp, and yet the back ground is softer, which makes the wheat take full attention. tigs =^..^=
Be great for a 'hide & seek' game eh!