Post Your Best Nature Shots!

[devsalvi]

Thanks Oren. I will give sharpening a shot.

[Keith B]

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[Flaming]

Keith B,


Love the shot of the lightning. It is particularly interesting with the water in the foreground. Just out of curiosity what is the key to taking shots of lightning? It does not seem like an easy task.


Keep up the great work,


Samuel

[powers_brent]

Was having issues with my exposure because the deer were moving from shadow to light and varying levels of brightness in the background. Really messed with my metering.


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Canon XS with 300mm f/4 L IS @ f/4, 1/40 sec, ISO 400





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Canon XS with 300mm f/4 L IS @ f/4, 1/320 sec, ISO 400


Overexposed, I know, but I couldn't give up this shot.

[Keith B]

Keith B,


Love the shot of the lightning. It is particularly interesting with the water in the foreground. Just out of curiosity what is the key to taking shots of lightning? It does not seem like an easy task.


Keep up the great work,


Samuel

Thanks Samuel.


Well, I don't know if I know the secret but this night it was particularly easy to time the lightning. Usually you'd slap the camera on a tripod and do long exposures (20-30 seconds) and hope the lightning goes off during this time. This shot though, I set it for only 3 second (how the lights on the bridge metered). The sky would flash a second or two before the bolts came striking. It did this consistently for about 3-4 minutes so I was able to time it for this shot.

[Dan Fleming]

I wasn't sure whether to put this in here or in HDR, because it is both. But it can go here for now.


Sigma 150mm f/2.8 @ f/5.6, 1/400, ISO 400, tonemapped in post process.

[clemmb]

Shots from my trip to Australia. All shot with my 5D and 24-105. All in western Australia.


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[Sinh Nhut Nguyen]

Bromance!


I want to bring this thread back to life...anyways I went to San Diego Zoo's Wild Animal Park again last week and spent some time with these lions, I believe they are cousins, hence the BROmance.[]


Taken with 40D + 500 f/4L IS, f/4, 1/640, ISO 400, handheld. Because I was very close, this image is fullframe, so you can see the right lion is a little soft due to shallow dof. I didn't want to stop down because I wanted an adequate shutter speed to minimize camera shake.





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Nate