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For some considerable time
Joe has been producing superb, much admired photographs. The
pedigree of Isaac’s Field so far is that it received a
diploma at the Limours International and has had acceptances
in Canada, Serbia and Turkey as well as the recent Wrekin and
Smethwick salons.
“This small white barn
occupies a corner of a field on a farm near Barnard Castle.
There is no public access to it, but I know the farmer well
and have taken pictures here on several occasions. The field
is known as Isaac’s Field for reasons that are now lost in the
mist of time, but presumably Isaac was the farmer here many
years ago.
Harvesting had just
finished and all that was left of the crop of wheat was a
relatively narrow strip which led up to the barn on one side
of the field; the wheat was due to be ploughed-in a day or two
later. This meant I was able to move around the area to shoot
the barn from a variety of angles without having to worry
about trampling the crop and I ended up taking shots from
maybe a dozen positions.
It was a fairly dull day so
I used a tripod and tried to keep the barn at the top of the
picture as the wheat made such a dramatic foreground. For
each shot I set the camera to auto-bracket (three exposures at
2 stop intervals) as I intended to process for HDR. There was
no filtration.
HDR processing was done in
Photomatix and the image was completed (edge darkening and
control of the barn highlights) in Photoshop. Pentax K10D,
f9.5.”
Joe Grabham
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