Although I am a Wakefield commercial photographer, my work takes me to many sites and today I was back at Fillingham Trees in Lincolnshire to photograph some more images for their web and brochure work. I did a big shoot at their Christmas tree farm last year but the time of year meant the trees were not as green and fresh looking as they should have been but they need they images for a large convention they were attending in Germany. The idea of this second shoot was to capture a few more images of the farmhands working the specialist machinery in the trees at a time when the trees were at their best colour. If I’m honest, they didn’t look much different, but then I’m not one of the UK’s leading Christmas tree growers! I used the Pentax for the shoot as the 15stops of dynamic range would allow me to pull detail out of the shadows because, all though it was winter sun, it was getting quite harsh by midday. Strong sun can result in contrasty images and normally I’d counter that with flash, but being on my own and working with moving machinery, it wasn’t possible to use the Profoto B1s that I had in the car,
