Post your best current shots

[Kayaker72]

Very nice picture Jfrits......I agree a little bump in exposure may help, but it is a great capture.


One from a few weeks ago:


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[Bill W]

jFritz.....nice capture and I agree w/the exposure comments. If you have photoshop, give the dark and shadow bars a few ticks to lighten up the foreground and woods.


CORRECTION 9/25: THIS LOOK IS CAUSED BY FEATHER LICE. IN MY AREA CARDINALS AND BLUE JAYS ARE THE MOST SUSCEPTIBLE TO THESE PARASITES.


Denise....your bird pix are great, I'm really enjoying them.


Concerning Mr. Cardinal...there's nothing wrong w/him other than it's molt (new batch of feathers) season.


As for the Mrs., breeding season is pretty much over and Cardinals don't mate for life.


Or she looked in the mirror and is in hiding.......LOL


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[ddt0725]

Thank goodness! Just another thing that photography has taught me about wildlife that I never paid attention to before!


Thanks, Bill and great shot of the female Cardinal!

[dsiegel5151]

Lots of cardinals in the back yard today. Too bad it's a really rainy day. 40D, 400mm f5.6 (@5.6), 1/200s, leaning against a wall, 430 EX II.

[bob williams]

Lots of cardinals in the back yard today. Too bad it's a really rainy day. 40D, 400mm f5.6 (@5.6), 1/200s, leaning against a wall, 430 EX II.

I really like this shot, I like the way the background worked for it and just enough fill lighting ----great looking bird too. Nice shot,


Bob

[Jonathan Huyer]

A couple of bighorn sheep in Banff this morning, exercising their right of way.


Canon 1D3, 300 mm f/2.8 lens, 1/800 sec @ f/2.8, ISO 200


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Banff Springs Hotel and the Bow river
Canon 5D2, 24 mm TS-E, 5-stop solid ND and 2-stop hard-edge ND grad, 5 sec @ f/16, ISO 100


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[bob williams]

Jon, Stunning pics. Nice work with the filters to get that kind of water blur and still maintain the details in he landscape and hotel. The bighorn sheep are also great---I certainly wouldn

[Steve U]

I second Bob

[Baker]

Here's one from the first shoot with the new 5D Mark II and 50mm f/1.4! I am absolutely in love with this camera/lens





1/160 - f/2.8 - ISO 100

[Jonathan Huyer]

Thanks Bob and Steve --- nice of you to say that. I struggled a bit with the post-processing of the Banff Springs photo, because the 5-stop solid ND creates a strong colour cast that is a bugger to remove. I used the individual colour adjustment sliders in LIghtroom, but it was time consuming and I'm still not 100% happy with getting it back to the way it was in the eyepiece. I should post the before & after shots in a separate thread, so you can see what I mean.


The bighorn sheep appeared to be quite docile, and one guy actually got out of his car and approached them with a point & shoot. That's a rather crazy move, in my books.