New Hampshire Field (Digitally Modified)

New Hampshire Field (Digitally Modified)
Originally uploaded by randubnick

Here is one more souvenir from my recent trip to Concord, NH, to attend a plein air workshop with my cousin. Just after leaving the art school, I spotted a farm field just around the corner. I thought the scene was beautiful. This might be nostalgia for Kansas, or perhaps the afterglow of a painting class. (For about an hour after I paint or draw, I tend to see everything around me in terms of composition, color, texture.) In any case, I liked the scene so I took some pictures. I liked the colors, the composition of hills and field, and the patterns in the rows of crops and in the farm machinery. Tonight I edited the original photo. In addition to cropping and adjusting the contrast, I used Painter's digital airbrush to take out one low-lying wire that was spoiling the composition. (I left the remaining three wires because they echo the linear pattern in the field.)