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Yellow is the colour
Posted by dobbino (Cape Town, South Africa) on 20 August 2009 in Landscape & Rural and Portfolio.
This one's for Grouser - our canola season (one of two cultivars of rapeseed) is in full swing right now. Plus there is a winter sky that I will leave him to rate (BTW, about two minutes after taking this photo the heavens opened!). And then, of course, there's Table Mountain in the distance, just to prove this was taken in Cape Town!
Title taken from the words of one of the first songs that I learnt to play on the guitar, "Colours", by Donovan.
All comments, and especially constructive criticism is truly appreciated. Thank you for taking the time.
All images © Rob Minter, and licensed in terms of a Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 2.5 South Africa License
Nicholas from Shah Alam, Malaysia
Awesome use of clouds as leading lines! and that yellow field! brilliant!
20 Aug 2009 6:19am
Cricket-Tammy from somewhere out there, United States
This is just stunning! What a beautiful place to be standing. I am taken away with this.
20 Aug 2009 6:52am
jamesy from christchurch, New Zealand
gorgeous Rob I love the yellow. We have this as a summer crop in NZ
20 Aug 2009 7:08am
Linerberry from Sumner, Christchurch, New Zealand
I thought there was a bit of a Grouser sky going on there lol:-)
This is wondrful Rob....such a great feeling of depth and distance....beautiful colours and stunning shades:-)
20 Aug 2009 7:41am
ManuelaR from Hainburg (Frankfurt/Main), Germany
Really captivating, love the never ending horizon and the low sky :)
20 Aug 2009 8:13am
zOOm from Paris, France
Fantastic contrast between the cloudy blue sky and this stunning yellow field. I really feel... happy when I look at it. Yes, Rob, it's the happiest landscape I've ever seen.
20 Aug 2009 8:29am
Marina Pesic from Braunschweig, Germany
beautiful scenery and colors...it makes me wish to live overthere...
20 Aug 2009 8:57am
David Nos from Barcelona, Spain
Beautiful colours and very nice landscape photo!!
20 Aug 2009 9:47am
Eric Fry from Houston, TX, United States
Gorgeous colors and such a dramatic sky! Great work, Rob!
20 Aug 2009 9:56am
Anna.C from LA ROCHELLE, France
wonderful landscape and colors ! Love the 10mm angle on the clouds !
20 Aug 2009 12:04pm
bluechameleon from Vancouver, Canada
Rob, this is absolutely stunning! The colours and angle of the clouds are rockin' my world today!
20 Aug 2009 12:22pm
Lorraine from Gatineau, Canada
All so amazingly beautiful, refreshing, outstanding compo and colours....what can I say, it's Divine ;)
20 Aug 2009 12:48pm
Francesc B. from région parisienne, France
Magnificent landscape !... this yellow, and the sky with these clouds... fantastic !
Good result with the wide angle.
20 Aug 2009 1:51pm
Laurie from New Jersey, United States
Absolutely stunning landscape. It is just so very beautiful.
20 Aug 2009 2:28pm
@Daniel Rossouw: Thank you, my friend. Will definitely see you on Tuesday morning - your place, normal time.
Michael Rawluk from Williams Lake, BC, Canada
Table mountain sure does look like a table. That is a beautiful landscape. Wonderful shot.
20 Aug 2009 3:10pm
Ralph Jones from Detroit, United States
Breath taking landscape! Very nicely done.
20 Aug 2009 3:21pm
Shahryar from Isfahan, Iran
so beautiful.
superb.I like it ;)
Thanks for sharing.
20 Aug 2009 3:53pm
Ronnie 2¢ from Atlantic Shores, United Kingdom
A classic shot on any level I can think of . . perfect to promote your fair land !
20 Aug 2009 6:50pm
Graham Russon from Cape Town, South Africa
Brilliant shot Rob, if I didnt' already live here, I would want to visit. Thanks for the inspiration, know where I'm going this weekend.
20 Aug 2009 7:28pm
@Graham Russon: Thanks Graham - super comment :)
Veronique from France
what did you do tothis picture ? it's a fantastic sky you have got there
20 Aug 2009 8:50pm
@Veronique: Thanks Veronique - please have a look at my response to Anina below - very little was done to the original photo.
Rui from Leiria, Portugal
Amazing. Love every detail in it. The yellow, the blue(s)... earth and sky merging in a distant line. Perfect!
20 Aug 2009 9:12pm
Dawn from Maryland, United States
Breathtaking!! 5 stars. This is stunning!! : )
20 Aug 2009 10:01pm
LauraS from Chico, United States
Nice shot. Love the expansiveness of this over the large field of yellow, and the big sky.
20 Aug 2009 10:02pm
Anina from Auckland, New Zealand
WOW!!! This is such a beautiful shot! I absolutely love this!!!! Perfection!
It's shots like this that makes the heart long.. ;)
I must admit my sinuses don't miss the canola flowers :)
The colours are so beautiful.
Did you use any HDR processing?
20 Aug 2009 11:37pm
@Anina: Hi Anina - thanks so much. Regarding HDR - no, I actually am not a fan as generally the end result does not look real. When I saw this scene I knew the camera would underexpose (lots of bright yellow and there was a fair amount of bright cloud) so I upped the exposure compensation a bit. This turned out still to be a bit dull and so I further increased the exposure on the RAW image (combined total of about 2 stops). And that was about it. It was just one of those very special days.
Seraphine from San Francisco, United States
i'm not sure yellow is the color.
blue has a fair say too.
and the clouds, the clouds,
are spectacular!
21 Aug 2009 3:42am
Bill Brown from California, United States
Outstanding capture! The sky is gorgeous.
21 Aug 2009 4:22am
Jason Kravitz from Brussels, Belgium
this landscape is stunning - so much yellow ! Well captured too - I like that little line of fence cutting down the side of the composition.
21 Aug 2009 9:28am
Bharat from Bangalore, India
Very nice picture. Love the perspective & composition, bright colors and the depth of field.
21 Aug 2009 11:01am
Andrew Gould from Sydney, Australia
This is wonderful! The low horizon, textures, colours and light. Absolutely fantastic!
21 Aug 2009 2:02pm
dj.tigersprout from New York City, United States
yowee!!! faaabulous shot Rob!! 5 stars!!!
21 Aug 2009 3:01pm
sawsengee from Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
beautiful landscape.....excellent colours, lights & depth of field
21 Aug 2009 4:33pm
Vanilla Wine from las vegas, United States
wow, beautiful. amazing shot. lovely colors
21 Aug 2009 9:30pm
Canon EOS 40D
1/400 second
F/16.0
ISO 200
10 mm