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New! The Story Behind The Photo

5/9/2021

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The Story Behind the Photo is a new feature on the Riding The Edge Photography website, click on the audio file below the image to hear the story of how the image was made and some photography lessons learned while making each image. This series will have its own page on the Riding The Edge Photography website so Check back for new additions to this The Story Behind The Photo series. www.ridingtheedgephotography.com/story-behind-the-photo.html
In this first Story Behind the Photo I'm telling how I made the image Farm Life - A photo made while on assignment for the Albany Democrat-Herald.
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Jerol Monroe
5/16/2021 09:00:49 am

"Photography starts once you get past the camera." So good— it is one of my problems as I age and forget and misremember. Love this image for all the reasons you mention in the audio. Also I read your "Crop or not" item before seeing this photo and it made me wonder about breaking the "rule" to always level the horizon. In this photo, had you leveled the horizon (and thus the tractor) it would have un-leveled the outside walkers. What to do? :-)
For your luck to turn around and see this scene, add to it the luck that the dog did not also turn around! The bounding dog is at least 50% the success of this shot, IMHO.

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David link
5/16/2021 03:30:43 pm

I agree Jerol, the dog really brings the photo home so to speak. :) As far as the horizon, I don’t think the camera is perfectly level ( close enough for horseshoes) but the horizon in this shot is actually on a hillside, so it wouldn’t be level anyway and the little road the tractor is on is probably not that level either. I guess the most important part is the walkers and they don’t appear to be leaning much and are the most vertical element in the image. Also the tree in the top left corner looks pretty straight, now I’m going to obsess about what’s level for awhile Lol

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