apple picking

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Photo Fix of the Day

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​Here's a photo I took at a local farm this past week. The skies were dramatic all day and at one point I spun around to see these intense rays of sunlight pouring through the clouds. When I first processed the photo the juvenile apple trees in the foreground were very dark so I brought up their exposure quite a bit. I added some clarity to the clouds but other than that I didn't do much. 

How would you improve this photo? I thought maybe some cropping would have been in order but I opted not to. What do you think?​

I shot this with a Sony NEX-7 using the kit lens at 21mm, f/8, ISO 100.​

Photo of the Day

It was a surprisingly hot first day of Fall when we decided to go apple picking.  I shot this photo as we were making our way into a massive New Jersey farm. ​They had a hay bail climbing area that didn't seem all that safe to me but the kids seemed to love it.

I like this photo because there's a 1950's-style farm land feeling for me. Something about the threatening sky, the dusty need for rain, and the kids that would joyfully stand out there in a lightning storm just so they could keep playing.

I shot this with a Sony NEX-7 using the kit lens with ISO 100 and f/22.​ What do you think? How would you improve it?