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love this one!
this one is spectacular too. Is the fence falling down or is it just going into a ditch?
this is sublime (and also it's counterpart in your gallery). I love the silhouette of the twigs and the line of trees with the gorgeous background is simply beautiful.
Ah ha! How lucky - you've managed to captured the lesser known and very rare Dutch Snowy Legless Gull. They're beautiful in flight but watching the landings is painful!
I must say Josh, your pearly white action gets those whites to look so spectacular! Wanna come and do my laundry??
how fascinating! I never knew they did this.
Ducks sit on their belly to get their feet off the ice to preserve body heat:
I certainly have enjoyed these, thanks for showing us how it's done. The way you capture light truly magical.
Thanks Ultimitsu!
The secret is that you have to apply a hollow curve (set brightness to 0, drag down the middle two parts on the curve). That will increase contrast in the highlights. You'll need to compensate the darkening by decreasing contrast, increase saturation and adjust exposure, and add a bit of fill-light if you have to.
Thanks Steve!
I use a 40D (or two as a matter of fact).
These can look good in camera if you have a mind to experiment out in the cold, but I rather like to shoot raw and figure it out when I'm sitting in front of the computer, heater set high and a cup of hot chocolate or coffee
LOL! It's not so bad when properly dressed
Thanks Olga, yep the 'big duck' will have to watch out for identity theftAny closer to that one duck and your image would have been a retina scan.
You have to see me looking like a mummy wrapped in tightly to fend off the cold. It involves standing still a lot, especially if the shutter speed is around 30 seconds. I've also noticed that liveview drains the batteries at an increased rate out in the cold. My batteries are aging though so I've ordered 6 replacements from sterlingtek. I could do about 20 shots per battery down from the usual 1500 in normal conditions or 500 in the cold.
It's slower focusing but you can do BIFs with bigger/slower birds farther off like pelicans, great blue heron and larger (herring) gulls hovering in the wind for example.--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 ...
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Glad to have digital cameras....
There's an endlessly deep cravice that eats up all fences and cattle if you're not careful.. Nope, it's just a makeshift fence to prevent cattle from escaping through the dried ditch.love this one!
this one is spectacular too. Is the fence falling down or is it just going into a ditch?
LOL! You're right about the landings, even with feet they tumble a lot on the slippery ice, getting to the food the first. Mine! Mine! Mine!Ah ha! How lucky - you've managed to captured the lesser known and very rare Dutch Snowy Legless Gull. They're beautiful in flight but watching the landings is painful!
Wait and see my silky black velvet actionI must say Josh, your pearly white action gets those whites to look so spectacular! Wanna come and do my laundry??
yeah but only justThank you Ol, glad you think they're remotely viewable
Wow look at the droplets on the gull! That piece of bread is bigger than he is!
LOL! that sounds promising....
Wait and see my silky black velvet actionI must say Josh, your pearly white action gets those whites to look so spectacular! Wanna come and do my laundry??
Thanks a lot for the info. I'm currently looking at a T2i and was just wondering how good the images were SOOC. It doesn't sound like you have to do a ton of PP work so that's good news.Thanks Steve!
I use a 40D (or two as a matter of fact).
These can look good in camera if you have a mind to experiment out in the cold, but I rather like to shoot raw and figure it out when I'm sitting in front of the computer, heater set high and a cup of hot chocolate or coffee
I've done general processing in LR, sharpening and denoising in photoshop.
I spend maybe 5 minutes per photo and process about 15 or so from the 50-300 shots I usually take. Landscape shots I take far fewer as the keeper rate is much higher. When shooting out in the cold I may return home with only 30 shots or so, but when I shoot birds in flight I easily reach 300.
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Kind regards
Imqqmi
... even though the 55-250 comes relatively inexpensive compared to the tokina i just bought... i don't think it's an investment i can make in the "near" future!! ... ...If you own a 55-250 you have to dream no longer
--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 ...
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
Thank you Dibs!
There's a brightness slider in LR3. The 3 dots directly under the curves changes where the controls are placed. The actual controls are the sliders below that (Highlights, lights, darks, shadows). You can click and hold down the mouse button and drag on the curve to change each of these too.Let's get down to more arcane details
When you say pull down brightness to zero, what is meant exactly. So, I am using LR3, and I go to the Tone Curve and on the graph there are 3 dots. Should I drag the first two all the way to the left? I guess the first one if for darkness and the second for midtones, right?
Thanks a bunch Steve, you'll love your new camera! You even have HD video available, which my 40D doesn't do. If you stick with it, you'll be able to better me I'm certain!
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LOL! that sounds promising....Wait and see my silky black velvet actionI must say Josh, your pearly white action gets those whites to look so spectacular! Wanna come and do my laundry??
