Post Your Best Nature Shots!

[ddt0725]

Awwww! Great picture, Steve!


I sure hope the rains stop soon ...my thoughts and prayers go out to everyone suffering from these horrific floods!


Denise

[conropl]

Scott Falls is not the most spectacular water fall in the U.P. (Michigan), but still one of my favorites.


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[Andy Stringer]

It's great to see a few new members sharing their pictures here. Welcome all.

Also good to see the usual suspects - that's a cute koala pic, Steve. One tip for next time, when shooting a backlit subject, is to dial in some exposure compensation, or use spot-metering on the subject. The bear is a little dark due to the bright sky behind it. It might help to push the ISO up too, to get a hand-holdable shutter speed with a brighter exposure. I hope things get back to normal for you and the wildlife as soon as possible.

Andy - Your shot of the Knoydart peninsula is absolutely breathtaking!!! Right before looking at this photo I had made a decision to NOT buy the 5d II for awhile but this shot is really making it tough to stick to that decision!

Thanks, Denise. While I was up there, I also did a 21-frame panorama at 70mm. At over 30,000 pixels wide, it is a little too big for this forum, but the detail in the scene is amazing. The 5D II sure is hard to beat for landscapes like that.

The weather here has been awful, so I have to be content with my shots from last year. Here is another from the same trip. It was taken after 10pm in mid summer, looking towards the Cuillin Mountains on the Isle of Skye. The "UFO" is a lenticular cloud, so called because it is shaped like a lens, which is kind of appropriate for this forum, don't you think?


1D Mark IV, EF 70-200mm f/2.8L IS USM @ 120mm, f/9, 1/250s, ISO 200

[Steve U]

Thanks for the insight Andy, will have another go today.


BTW, I think I can see someone waving at us from your nice UFO photo.


Steve

[Fast Glass]

Thanks, Denise. While I was up there, I also did a 21-frame panorama at 70mm.At over 30,000 pixels wide, it is a little too big for this forum, but the detail in the scene is amazing. The 5D II sure is hard to beat for landscapes like that.

Could you post that image, downrezed of course! And a 100% crop for perspective.


Thanks,


John.

[Dirk-Jan Kraan]

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Wild fox at Oostvaardersplassen in The Netherlands.


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[Andy Stringer]

Could you post that image, downrezed of course! And a 100% crop for perspective

The original is too big even for flickr, and it is less than 100 pixels high when downsized so it loses the impact. But in case you doubt me, I've just re-done it as two images.

All taken with 5D Mark II, EF 24-70mm f/2.8L USM @ 70mm, f/10, 1/50s, ISO 100





100% crop (when viewed at Large size on flickr) of the white house at the lower left corner of the 2nd image:


The house is 2 miles from my viewpoint.

[Fast Glass]

Dude, that picture has staggering deitail! I guess shouldn

[smith365]

<span style="color: #000000;"]I set my camera up on a remote timer to get a few shots of the
mockingbird in my backyard. The sun was going down and I had to push
the exposure about 1.5 stops in post, which explains the extra grain.


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[dhesling]

EXIF Intact


Thanks for looking!


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