Post Your Best Nature Shots!

[muc1]

Great shot Joel Eade, nice detail.


Hi All, From what I gather from your c's I need to brush up on my photoshop skills, crop, clone, darken background. I agree with all the suggestions just not up to thatlevel of Photoshop usage as yet, been focusing on capture of subject, time to step up a level on the computer.


Whatsreal, bees are cool I haven't been stung yet and I have hundreds of bee shots some a lot closer, They give you a warning if you're anoying them to much, stinging means death to them they are not sucidal.


Thanks all for the suggestions, will see what I can do to improve the field.


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[Rodger]

Cool ladybug!


-Rodger

[Dan Fleming]

heh, I know that about bees, but I grew up in South America where almost the only bees we had were the killer african hybrid. 1 stings you and they swarm to sting you. They also don't really give you a warning, well they do, but it is really really fast. But these two pictures are awesome!

[muc1]

Thanks Rodger.


Whatsreal, yea we have something like those swarm bees really aggressive but usually not killers, our honey bees are really placid just cruise around give a buzz if annoyed and continue working, never had a problem with them. I got close to a swarm of them once and took shots, I have to admit I was a tad nervous being that close ( 6 to 12 inches) to so many bees protecting a new Queen.

[muc1]

Hi Whatsreal,


I attached in mypage three pics of the bees mentioned in the last post scuse the quality of the shots, done with a P+S.

[Sinh Nhut Nguyen]

Brown Pelican diving


40D & 400 f/5.6, f/6.3, 1/2000, ISO 400


Larger version http://photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=9957731&size=lg

[Fast Glass]

Sweet! Great shot! And its not even taken with your 500.


I will be getting my 7D in about three weeks, huray!


John.

[cian3307]

Perfect as always Nate! Wonderfully sharp, excellent feather detail.

[Jon Ruyle]

Very nice, I gotta say.


Just curious- was this shot a member of a burst, or a single button press?


Do you think it the whole bird would not have been in focus at f/5.6? Or was there another reason for stopping down? I like how the water looks as is, but I have no idea if a tiny bit more blur would be better or not as good... do you? (Not trying to put you on the spot, but when people take way better pictures than I do, I like to inspect their minds [])


I'm *this* close to picking up a 400mm f/5.6 (imagine thumb and index finger 3 mm apart). Maybe a christmas present from me to me. But if I do that I'll have to get something for my wife... []

[Flaming]

Colin, love the shot of the woods. I like how you managed to get the mood. It is really nice.


Joel, love that shot of a bird. It is well framed and really well set with blurred background.


Bob Williams, I really like the shot of a wolf. It would be nice if you could set it to 800 pixles wide so that we could see the whole image.


Here are a couple of shots that I just took around my campus here.


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Canon 24-85mm f/3.5-4.5 USM at 30mm f/3.5 1/90 ISO 100








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Canon 24-85mm f/3.5-4.5 USM at 24mm f/3.5 1/60 ISO 100