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Published: 2010-01-15 03:46:22 +0000 UTC; Views: 999; Favourites: 19; Downloads: 1
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Something a little bit different from me and I don't think many people will like it but I am very interested to know what you think about it.Please contact me for prints.
©2009 James Hackland
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I miss Nebraska now, except for the cow poop. lol I like how the light shines on the leaves, it's like a corn leaf ocean.
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Thanks.
Lots of corn in Nebraska?
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Near where I used to live yes.
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I passed it in the first time, but kept it in my queue to look at it again, it had something I liked...
I like the repeating pattern of the corn field, even if the sky doesn't add much to it, it has a taste, my suggestion on this would be maybe to crop out the sky, or hold only a really tiny part of it in the shot, and emphasize the corn fields?
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Well, you aren't the first one to mention the sky and until now I have disagreed with most people but I tried cropping it again and it does look better with less sky. Thanks, I will have to update it soon.
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If you want to keep it colour then I'd make the sky yellow, but honestly this would work much better in monochrome with a white sky like that.
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I will see what it looks like when converted to black and white. I am not a big fan of altering my landscape images in a drastic manner such as changing the colour of the sky.
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For some reason pictures like this make me wonder
how they once thought the world to be flat.
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I think it's because it reminds me of a memory.
A friend and I were in a type of
watchtower out in the woods
and it was super tall,
taller than most of the trees,
and when you looked around
it was like you were in a big ball.
It was really nice.
As is your picture.
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Ah, this reminds me of my grandpa's farm.
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Glad it could bring some good memories back for you.
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Different indeed. Liking the light, and clarity through the corn field, but yeah, the white doesn't do it for me either.
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Fair enough thank you for your opinion. The bright white blown out sky was the reasoning for submitting this image to be honest and originally it was uncropped with 2/3 white sky and I then determined it to be excessive and cropped it back into landscape format. I never expected it to be popular but I liked it so I submitted it regardless.
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lovely light on that foreground but I find that sky rather bland
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Thanks. Yes the sky is what I thought most people wouldn't like but I was going for something a little different. Thank you for being honest.
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never hurts to experiment and try something new.. and that's why we all post online isn't it, to get some genuine feedback 
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Yes but sometimes it is difficult to get constructive feedback usually if someone doesn't like your work they just won't say anything and that is not helpful at all.
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I think that's partly cos a lot of people seem incapable of differentiating constructive criticism from personal attacks and get all defensive.. have to admit there are a few I don't bother with any more cos when I try to point something out that I've seen, all I get is a barrage of defense and justification! it's the curse of briefly typed text, the helpful sentiment is often lost/misconstrued..
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Yes, that's a very good point. I have found though that most of the time if I ask for an honest opinion I will get it.
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true, same actually, and that's a very cool thing
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Thank you I appreciate the comment.
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Hoogard got a similar shot but with a great sky. You edited the sky?
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I am by no means done shooting corn fields, they are pretty abundant where I live.
Well I actually just shot the image without a grad filter and that left about 80% of the sky blown out then I used an overexposed image and blended in the few areas that still showed tonality.
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I was going for more of a surreal dreamlike feel to the image.
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Instant 
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Glad you like it and I'm also happy that it has inspired you. That in itself made it worthwhile.
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