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It's freezing cold here now for a week and I've been busy a couple of mornings and evenings to capture sun rises and sun sets. As often here when the weather transitions from rainy to below freezing point, the fog sits in and everything gets a bit of powdery sugar as topping. Temperatures range from -10 to -2 degrees C. The wind was strong today, with temperatures around -5 felt like -13 or something like that.

The air is getting dryer every day, and today it was a clear day. A great day for some BIFs I thought, with the low sun and frosty ground the light is perfect for gulls in flight. I've processed them with a technique I call pearly white as the feathers seem to be so shiny but smooth.

Here's a small selection from the shots I've done over the past week. Lenses used: canon 10-22mm, 24-70mm f/2.8L and 100-400L





I've been shooting a lot of fences lately :)









Graveyard in Thesinge:



I went to the lake again today to feed the starving birds and pick off some easy shots. The wind made it difficult to keep the lens steady, so a lot of shots got deleted:





Ducks sit on their belly to get their feet off the ice to preserve body heat:



This goose was rather desperate and got a few extra slices of bread from me. It was so desperate it came close enough to run into my legs while I was sitting on the pier. When all the bread was gone (one full loaf) it sat next to me eying me to see if I had a secret stash. I had to move away to get this shot as it was too close for the 100-400mm lens:





They've conveniently tucked away their feet so that I don't have to clone out the tracking rings around them :)





Hope you enjoyed my cold trips! Thanks for looking!
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Imqqmi



http://www.pbase.com/imqqmi

The DSLR jargon cheatsheet:
http://www.jmbfoto.nl/dslrcheatsheet.pdf

Sunset blending tutorial:
http://www.jmbfoto.nl/tutorial/blendingTutorial01a.pdf
 
great pictures, which lenses you've taken these with?
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love to shoot both airguns and pictures
 
Thanks, imqqmi.

Your work is both excellent and an inspiration.

thanks for sharing:)
 
And by the way, those grave stones are huge...or did you have your camera close to the ground??

Beautiful shots!!!

r/Mike

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B.R.A.S.S. (Breathe, Relax, Aim, Sight, Squeeze)

 
Well, I guess they'll do ;)

I see you're taking full advantage of the multiple-golden-hours this time of year up there :)

Those are really nice shots, Josha. Your lighting is perfect in all of them. Fine subjects too. I think my favorite is your first one, but it's impressive how you work in fine detail in both shadows and highlights in all of them...from tree bark to feathers.

You walked me through some of your workflow a while back, which I've found very useful. But I'm curious about these pictures. With this kind of lighting do you still pull your contrast down, then bring up saturation/vibrance and adjust with curves to maintain the detail? I know it works well with bright, harsh lighting, but is the general flow the same, just less exagerated?

Again, very nice photos. Thanks for sharing them.

Nick
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These are fantastic! The first one is the best and then the cemetery.
 
absolutely fantastic shots. I like the third shot the best.
 
These shots are brilliant, the one I like the most is the foggy gate. superb.

If you dont mind sharing your secret with us, how did you get the white feathers so smooth yet so detailed? I have a lot of trouble myself getting them this good.
 
Wow, these are gorgeous...thanks for sharing! Can I ask two questions:

1. What camera body were you using?

2. How much post-processing did you have to do with these or did they look these great straight out of the camera?

Thanks again...very inspirational shots :)
 
Beautiful shots! Cemetery shot is gorgeous. They all exude "brrrrrrrr cold" to me, the fair weather photographer.

Any closer to that one duck and your image would have been a retina scan. :) Nice and sharp. Your whites are always perfect.

Temperature here in N. Texas was around 40F (4C) yesterday when I had to go out and I wore my gloves. My friends in Colorado would have had a good laugh with me. My husband did. Of course I have a good excuse now, a super sensitive left hand, but still, I even laughed at myself.
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Olga
 
Lovely shots ...

I dream of the day when I can get a lens for good BIF shooting ... and then be technically adept enough to pull it off...
for the timebeing i'm happy shooting humans and landscapes!! :) ...

your first and third were really really good.. just love the hues of the sky with the vast snow ...
 
Thanks! Good eye Mike, the camera is indeed close to the ground and the lens is angled up so that the stones seem a bit askew :).
Port Royal Dad said:
And by the way, those grave stones are huge...or did you have your camera close to the ground??

Beautiful shots!!!

r/Mike

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B.R.A.S.S. (Breathe, Relax, Aim, Sight, Squeeze)

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Kind regards
Imqqmi



http://www.pbase.com/imqqmi

The DSLR jargon cheatsheet:
http://www.jmbfoto.nl/dslrcheatsheet.pdf

Sunset blending tutorial:
http://www.jmbfoto.nl/tutorial/blendingTutorial01a.pdf
 
AvyMan said:
Well, I guess they'll do ;)
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LOL!
AvyMan said:
I see you're taking full advantage of the multiple-golden-hours this time of year up there :)
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It's like golden hour all (short) day long :)
AvyMan said:
Those are really nice shots, Josha. Your lighting is perfect in all of them. Fine subjects too. I think my favorite is your first one, but it's impressive how you work in fine detail in both shadows and highlights in all of them...from tree bark to feathers.
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Thanks Nick!
AvyMan said:
You walked me through some of your workflow a while back, which I've found very useful. But I'm curious about these pictures. With this kind of lighting do you still pull your contrast down, then bring up saturation/vibrance and adjust with curves to maintain the detail? I know it works well with bright, harsh lighting, but is the general flow the same, just less exagerated?
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Yep that's about what I have adopted as my standard work flow now. In fact is more exaggerated as I've bumped up saturation and brilliance to 50 to 60 in some shots. That's because when you decrease contrast the image will look less saturated and that needs to be brought back.

It's still a per image edit as changes in exposure and saturation in the actual scene will change the settings needed to bring it all out properly.

I might do a tutorial (based on LR3 and photoshop) considering the questions in this thread :)
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Kind regards
Imqqmi



http://www.pbase.com/imqqmi

The DSLR jargon cheatsheet:
http://www.jmbfoto.nl/dslrcheatsheet.pdf

Sunset blending tutorial:
http://www.jmbfoto.nl/tutorial/blendingTutorial01a.pdf
 
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