Post Your Best Nature Shots!

[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.

[Daya]

Thank you Rodger. I will try to grab a copy and get started once i get PS installed.

[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 []

[Keith B]

Thanks Jon and Roger


I wish I could claim craftsmanship but it was literally like shooting fish in a barrel that night. That bolt was so massive it just lit up the area and froze everything. The rocks in the foreground are lit by a near by street light.


It was literally my first try at shooting lightning. I was actually hoping to catch it behind the bridge.

[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.?)