Tractor Lines

[Julian de'Courcy]

This is a view that I frequently photograph. It is on route to somewhere I go often. It is easy to stop off the road in a gate way and setting up a tripod. Favorite lens for this shot is the EF 200f2.8. It does foreshorten the landscape. To give some idea how much, it is from the nearest corn field to the China clay pits in the distance nearly eight miles. The hills in the distant are man made, spoils from the pits.



IMG_6699 by JuliandeCourcy, on Flickr

 

[Rob MacKillop]

Lovely, Julian. The smoke makes it for me.

 

[Julian de'Courcy]

Yes Rob the smoke elevated this one view, over the other views of this landscape I have.

 

[Chris Dodkin]

As we were discussing on FLICKR - I think the use of telephotos in landscape work is vastly overlooked

Instead of the landscape 'lying down' as it can with a wide lens - it stands up and is so much more dramatic when a tele is used

Lovely compression of perspective - and great light

 

[Julian de'Courcy]

Yes Chris I do like landscapes taken with telephoto lenses and wides, but if I did have to choose one it would be the tele lens.

 

[Pete Askew]

Very nice Julian, and fantastic lighting. I also like telephoto lenses for landscape images and I think this is a superb example. I especially like the difference between the high contrast fore and mid-ground and the softer, slightly hazy distance.