Phoenix Gold Phorum

We took a nice little 9 hour drive yesterday in the snow. Here are a few pics.





The wife thinks this look like a giant vagina!

Have to say that it does look like a giant vag.......... Awesome pics too.


Another sunday but it's nice here for once and I've got projects that can be finished up and whatnot........ Hi ho, hi ho it's out to the yard I go......

the last one: look at the tops of the trees: you'll see the purple fringes. That's "CA" - and you can normally avoid it by using a higher f-number.

other than that, not bad at all. I'd try harder to line up the rocks horizontal / vertical or exactly in the middle of the pic; you could also try something from in the rocks themselves or just in front of it.

keep going, you're getting better

Bret

bretti_kivi wrote:the last one: look at the tops of the trees: you'll see the purple fringes. That's "CA" - and you can normally avoid it by using a higher f-number.

other than that, not bad at all. I'd try harder to line up the rocks horizontal / vertical or exactly in the middle of the pic; you could also try something from in the rocks themselves or just in front of it.

keep going, you're getting better

Bret

That third one is with no post processing. I thought about messing with it, but it's naturally on a slight slant like that. And the "CA", I think I was on a fairly high f-stop IIRC, I think it's just not that good of a lens.

A quick question about the first one. After I posted this up I changed the angle of my laptop and it looks like I may have over sharpened it. What do you think? Also, I like the composition of that one, I think I finally got that right for once!

I don't see a problem with that at all; sharpening is always a bit hit-and miss, because what looks oversharp on a screen may be great on paper. Work to the medium
As far as the lens goes, yes, it might not be that good, and there's not that much you can do. OTOH, it's nice to be aware of the limitations.

bit more philosophical...

Natural representation? why?

I'm always trying to make the nature pic *tell* me something; for me it's not about how dramatic the scenery is - everyone else can try that, I'd prefer the details, the little line that screams "TREE" or "MOUNTAIN" - the detail that leaves you in no doubt what you are looking at, even if the rest of the object is obscured. The cliffs on the top one fall into that category - it's ancient and proud and vivid and very real at the same time. Majestic, braving the weather.... and yet humbling.
I miss mountains.

In my photography, I like playing with people's perceptions of what they're seeing and why; I'd like them to not necesarily be 100% sure what it is but to realise and then realise that with *conviction* that's what I was looking at and trying to capture.
Bit like Audio, really; you don't really recognise excellent SQ until you hear it. And then when you lose it, you really miss it, and want it back.

Anyways, back to Topic --> this is the kind of thing I really like - took me a good half hour or so of lighting playing and exposure changes:



It's for a simple comp - theme "colours".

Bret

I´m by no meanings a pro photographer but one of th best shots i´ve ever taken was at the Taccoa Falls in Georgia with my creepy Sony DSC-T7

That is a nice picture joreg!