This past fall I was giving the great opportunity to spend the afternoon at my friends farm during the corn harvest. It was cold and windy, but well worth the time I had there. It also gave me the inspiration to try out a new type of Photoshop effects I had recently learned about, Tilt-Shift Photography. Using Photoshop you can recreate the look of miniatures, much like taking a photo of a model train set. After climbing up a grain bin and positioning myself correctly I was able to take this photo.

It is a good photo, but fairly non-descript, but after apply the Tilt-Shift effect…

And you now have a completely different photo. For my photos I want them to tell a story, so the purist may not like this technique, but I will use this many times in the future. This is the tutorial I used, and take some time and look at the other examples, some are just incredible.

After the day was done and I sat to have some dinner with my friends family, who were incredibly gracious hosts, I began to work through the photos I had. Many of which I feel captured what a farm at harvest time is like, but not the amount of work it truly is. If anyone give you the chance to spend a day on the farm, by all means, take it.

To see the rest of this photo set, click here.