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I recently returned from a trip to Lake of the Woods in Ontario CA for some fishing and some R&R. It was also a great chance for me to field test my new 7D. Here are the first pictures out of processing. Comments are welcome.

Sunrise on the Rock



Moonlight



The End of the Day



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Although I did some blending in PS and used the exposure brush in LR. I tried some HDRs but they did not come out as good as the hand blended ones.

Thanks for the comment

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Could you please tell me the settings you used for the Moonlight one? I tried doing one like that a little while ago and couldn't get it to work. Course I only have the 450D.

Thanks.
 
These are great, esp. the first too, lovely pics to break in your new 7D!

Hand blending is often the way to go and is also fun to do.
Oilman said:
I recently returned from a trip to Lake of the Woods in Ontario CA for some fishing and some R&R. It was also a great chance for me to field test my new 7D. Here are the first pictures out of processing. Comments are welcome.

Sunrise on the Rock



Moonlight



The End of the Day



--
The first camera bag you buy is always too small

http://www.flickr.com/geofiz
Click to expand...
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Kind regards
Imqqmi



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

Sunset blending tutorial:
http://www.jmbfoto.nl/tutorial/blendingTutorial01a.pdf
 
Wonderful shots. On the last one how did you get the light bulb to look like that? I figure it was done PP just not sure what you did.
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I don't think it was pp. I think he used a small aperture like f/11 or f/16 and a long-ish exposure and the high contrast scene might do this.
Granamere said:
Wonderful shots. On the last one how did you get the light bulb to look like that? I figure it was done PP just not sure what you did.
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I took a course in art last winter. I learnt the difference between a fine oil painting, and a mechanical thing, like a photograph. The photograph shows only the reality. The painting shows not only the reality, but the dream behind it.
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Kind regards
Imqqmi



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

Sunset blending tutorial:
http://www.jmbfoto.nl/tutorial/blendingTutorial01a.pdf
 
Lewynn: The camera has nothing to do with it

You can get the same shot with your 450. I exposed for the sky. I set the camera on f10 and did a six second exposure using Av mode. Obviously, a tripod is a necessity. The real key, however , is the blend. I exposed for the sky, using center-weighted averaging. In the initial shot, the sky and water looked pretty good, but the trees were black. I used the LR adjustment brush to add exposure and brightness to the trees. I made other tweaks in processing but the blend was probably the key feature to increase the dynamic range to what my eyes saw.

Granamere: Imqqmi is correct. There was no PP on the light. It is simply lens flare. Usually you need a small aperture to get it but I got it with f7.1.

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The first camera bag you buy is always too small

http://www.flickr.com/geofiz
 
So, how was the fishing?

My monitor shows a very yellow, unreal, sunset.

Overall, I like the shots.

Find your way to the framing store, and put some on your walls.

BAK
 
Good to hear you got some well deserved R&R Oilman.

Lovely colours from the 7D (you forgot the 'pictures from a 7D' warning :) ).

Are you happy with the composition?

On the first the land mass forms a traingle pointing almost directly into the centre of the pic which demands my eye to focus on the middle of the image without anything to focus on when it gets there until it hits the distant island. Perhaps sliding the viewpoint down and to the right to get the traingle point to lead on to the more distant feature would have helped reduce the gap between created by the water.

The second has a 'flat' plane of interest; nothing leading my eye in or taking my eye further in to the image. Perhaps dropping down or backing up to find some foreground interest would have helped.

The final image is interesting but the 'top down' view point doesn't enable me to engage with the scene. again perhaps getting down and closer to finda line in to the picture would have been better.

I know you didin't entitle this 'Dragons lair' but I know you like C&C. Hope you don't mind.

Drew
Oilman said:
I recently returned from a trip to Lake of the Woods in Ontario CA for some fishing and some R&R. It was also a great chance for me to field test my new 7D. Here are the first pictures out of processing. Comments are welcome.

Sunrise on the Rock



Moonlight



The End of the Day



--
The first camera bag you buy is always too small

http://www.flickr.com/geofiz
Click to expand...
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'The whole idea of learning Photography is to reduce the number of Monkeys it takes.'
 
Very nice shots ! I'm envious of both your trip, and especially, your new 7D !

But where are the "fish" pictures ? :)

Peace,
Fish
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We stayed at YellowBird Lodge (part of Totem Resorts) near Sioux Narrows. It is about 60 miles south of Kenora, Ontario. Good walleye and northern pike country.
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The first camera bag you buy is always too small

http://www.flickr.com/geofiz
 
I disagree with you on the first one. The rock points directly to the center of the island. I think that it leads the eye to the island, which was my objective. I could have made the sunrise more reddish, as suggested by BAK, but was orange when I saw it and I wanted to keep the same color. I may still play with that idea.

I agree that the second photo may have been improved with a foreground object, but I like the way the line of the moon's reflection leads to the clouds
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The first camera bag you buy is always too small

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