Photo of the Week 40 – Making Hay

I generally stick to traditional aspect ratios when processing my photos, usually 4:6 or square in fact, but from time to time I get all daring and go for an extreme crop, this is probably one of the most extreme crops I’ve ever done from a single image, but I have to say I like the results. Oh, and yes, I did have to wait a long time till the tractor spat out a bail of hay at exactly the right moment! I think I shot about 100 pictures that afternoon, and this is the only really good one from the lot.

on Flickr – Full-Size

For those of you interested in such things, here are the technical details of this shot:

Camera: Nikon D40

Lens: Nikon DX AFS 55-200mm

Exposure: 1/640 sec

Focal Length: 130mm

Focal Ratio: F5

ISO: 400

Camera Mode: Aperture Priority

Exposure Compensation: -0.33