Field of hay and lovely sky

[ped]

Took my car in for a service today and had a wander round at 7.30 AM before the sky went grey and overcast. Snapped these shots:

I tried three different developing styles, clean, B+W (Using Bill's tips on recent thread on RFF) and IR.

Comments and tips appreciated.

Cheers
ped

#1

#2

#3

 

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I like the 2nd best from the structure of the photo. Some more of the hay-blocks in the image would be nice. I would give the clouds more lightness / white so that they pop out.
The colour development of #3 is not exactly my taste.
(criticism is easy. doing it better is hard 🙂 )

 

[ped]

Thanks for that, all very interesting and useful. I don'tnormally use the processing in #3 either but thought it suited this picture - I'm copying one I saw a long time ago somewhere, this is how I remembered it.

I have also been reliably informed that this isn't HAY, it's WHEAT!! so I will change the topic heading!