Outside InThe Sun Shooting
Give me farm equipment, fields, mud and the sun and I’m happy.
We shot a crop science project this past week and got some amazing images. The brief called for that dramatic low light and in mid summer that means really early call times. Worth it!
Crop science is a lot of spraying and then getting out into the field to check on your work. The 2 images above were from a potato field that was just about to be harvested. Without ag science and spraying the yields at this field would be a fraction of what was harvested.
This project had a lot of drone work involved and some of it was … tricky. I lost connection of the drone at one point and realized it was in a large maple tree at the edge of the field. The gps location was still pinging away so I was able to find the drone but unfortunately it was 18’ up a tree. So… I climbed onto one of the boom arms of the machines in the photo below and it raised me up to get the drone out of the branches.
Typing this makes the whole scene seem a lot less terrifying than it was.
I do not recommend clutching onto a bobbing gantry at 18’.
Getting to ride in the cockpit of those sprayers was cool. Literally. The cabins have AC, bluetooth speakers and cushy air ride seats. Also the amount of gps tech in these things is pretty amazing.
Had enough of this shoot…?
Too bad. Below is a little gift that I like to give to all clients after a shoot. It’s a contact sheet and it’s my favorites from the project. These are passion chosen and edited accordingly and I look forward to this the most. I’m taking these photos to make the stuff I want to shoot and how I’d shoot it.
