Post Your Best Nature Shots!

[Mr.Le]

I've been lurking on this forum for a while so I thought this is as good a time as ever to introduce my self. My name is Vu, I'm an engineer living in the Bay Area. I wanted to give photography a try a year or so ago and have been shooting since. This is one hell of an addiction now.


Anyhow, here's a couple of shots that I thought would be fitting for this thread. These 2 shots were taken with my 40D, 70-200mm F4L IS, and Kenko extension tubes. I don't have the EXIF info with me atm but will post them when I get home.


Please feel free to critique and comments. Looking forward to interact with the rest of you on this forum. Have a great day.

[Daya]

One of my very first pics.


In #2


i shouldnt have kept the sun bang in the center. i was just too excited to hold a camera for the first time

[Sinh Nhut Nguyen]

Hi Vu, welcome to The-Digital-Picture Forum! Nice shots, I think they could be sharper, looking forward to seeing more of your work.


Hi Daya, welcome to The-Digital-Picture Forum too! I like how you cropped/composed the first shot, good way to show off the cloud. I like the second's color, you can try to level the horizon, it's tilted.

[Keith B]

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[Jon Ruyle]

Nice one, Keith.


Multiple exposures? How long did you leave the shutter open to get the lightning?

[Keith B]

Nice one, Keith.


Multiple exposures? How long did you leave the shutter open to get the lightning?

One exposure. 3 Second exposure. The lightning was really easy to time that night, it would flash and then a bolts would follow.

[Rodger]

Daya,


Any version of Photoshop along with the corresponding edition of Scott Kelby's "the Photoshop CS# book" books would help alot. They're so easy to learn from. Helped me get alot more out of my version of CS1 lol


Keith,


Beautiful! I love lightning shots.

[Jon Ruyle]

I only suspected that because of all the detail in dim stuff... I would have thought that would have totally burned out the lightning... not that the bolt itself isn't maxed out, that's fine obviously, but you got those little tendrils coming off it. Nice.

The lightning was really easy to time that night

Just like a true craftsman, to do what I *wish* I could do, then say it was easy []

[Daya]

Thank you Sinh Nhut Nguyen )


Thank you for your comments.


In the 2nd pic the horizon got tilted because of the camera click i think i will try to correct it. I am a BIG ZERO at pp and have only DPP to perform with. Havent read about tilt correction via DPP in its manual.

[cian3307]

Afraid you can't correct tilted horizons in DPP[]


If you're like me and often end up with tilted skylines, this a real pain (are you listening Canon software design dept.?)