another corn field at night

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These nighttime corn field shots are getting me all excited about Halloween coming up soon. They remind me of that old Charlie Brown and the Great Pumpkin tape that I used to watch every year around this time. Man, what a great tape. The Christmas tape and the others are good too.

As for the shot, I couldn’t decide whether I liked it in color or black and white better. So, I just put up the color version and decided to leave it at that. I wasn’t even thinking of doing a black and white version until I was sharpening the lightness channel in lab mode and it just sorta popped out. I tried copying the lightness channel and then bringing it back into RGB mode and pasting it into a new layer with the mode set to luminoscity and it gave me some pretty cool effects. Unfortunately, they weren’t really all that suited for this particular shot, but I think that I will end up trying that on some other photos in the future.

Photo of the day

6 Comments

TOSHI said
October 19th, 2005 at 8:38 am

Fantastic shots! I especially like this color.

Sam said
October 19th, 2005 at 8:34 pm

That sky is brilliant. Especially those stars.

bob said
October 19th, 2005 at 8:47 pm

wicked…..

Ariela said
October 19th, 2005 at 10:42 pm

Gorgous colors. There is something a little different about this image… I feel as if it’s a little curved? Whatever it is, I like the effect. It makes me feel like I’m catching a glimpse of Earth’s curvature.

(post author) Joe Lencioni said
October 19th, 2005 at 11:08 pm

Thanks everybody!

Ariela: the curvature is from the 15mm lens that I was using. It has some barrel distortion that gives it that cool, curved effect.

miles said
October 21st, 2005 at 5:28 pm

Love it, the movement in the corn, the stars picked out of the motion blurred sky. Fantastic.