Ch. 50 - Natural Colors

chrisjlee

I Traveled to Traverse City to find some beautiful natural colors for this contest. I really hope i can win. I need a new lens really badly. The one i have now has spots on it I don't know how to get rid of them.:cry.

You'll notice the spots in the bottom picture. It only appears when i use 28mm.

Thanks for your time Dgrin'ers.

gluwater

I like the first one but would like to see those distant trees a bit closer. Do you have any others like that?

As for the spots. Generaly those are from dust on the camera sensor and you only really notice them at smaller Apertures. I would check that before ditching the lens.

chrisjlee

gluwater wrote:

I like the first one but would like to see those distant trees a bit closer. Do you have any others like that?

As for the spots. Generaly those are from dust on the camera sensor and you only really notice them at smaller Apertures. I would check that before ditching the lens.

Good Point. I should probably clean the sensor.

ginger_55

They are definitely dust spots. One thing I can tell it is dust spots. I have enough on my sensor.

I like your top photo!

Best, I mean, and I really do like it. Can you do it bigger?

ginger

chrisjlee

Larger?

ginger_55 wrote:

They are definitely dust spots. One thing I can tell it is dust spots. I have enough on my sensor.

I like your top photo!

Best, I mean, and I really do like it. Can you do it bigger?

ginger

Ginger,

Yup it's on my flickr account.

I guess i think i'll keep shooting fall shots and find the perfect one for the contest. I've seen some good ones today; they're a lot better than mine.

Oh and also, how do you usually clean your lens ?

Phil U.

I like the top one. Great light - nice warm colors. To bad the sky wasn't a deeper blue - that'd really set off your colors but sometimes you have to work with what you have.

GREAPER

I think the first one has a lot of color, but it has too much empty sky and all of that sky is dominating the picture.

Number 2 also has a lot of sky, and is not saying "nature" to me.

Number 3 is the best contender of the three, but I think I would keep working on finding something stronger.

These are of course just my opinions being given in the hope of being helpful.

chrisjlee

Phil U. wrote:

I like the top one. Great light - nice warm colors. To bad the sky wasn't a deeper blue - that'd really set off your colors but sometimes you have to work with what you have.

Yeah i offset the LAB colors by as much as i could, any more the noise will show up more and the colors wouldn't be believeable.

Shima

I agree with general opinion on liking the first on the best. I think you might have too much sky there though, but aside from that it's very nice and rich in color.

muddyknees

I really like your first shot. I like all that faded sky contrasted with all those compressed layers of earthy colors.

chrisjlee wrote:

I Traveled to Traverse City to find some beautiful natural colors for this contest. I really hope i can win. I need a new lens really badly. The one i have now has spots on it I don't know how to get rid of them.:cry.

You'll notice the spots in the bottom picture. It only appears when i use 28mm.

Thanks for your time Dgrin'ers.