Korean Autumn

CrokeyCrokey Registered Users Posts: 195 Major grins
edited January 16, 2012 in Landscapes
I uploaded a gallery with some pictures that I made in Daegu, the city where I am currently living in S.Korea. I took all of these in a small area 15 min cycle(starting to rue never learning to drive now that the cold weather has set in!) from my apartment. I've been busy the past few months so I had to grab what time could when I could and as quickly as I could! This is on a bend of the Nakdong River which was once the frontline during the Korean War over 50 years ago. The area has been allowed to grow over naturally and there is quite a concentration of wildlife there although I am not nearly good enough to take a decent photo of any of it:D C&C more than welcome, let me have it! Here are a handful of pics from the gallery: http://colincroke.smugmug.com/Korea/Korean-Autumn/20810488_CH8TnD

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Regards,

Colin Croke

http://colincroke.smugmug.com/

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  • EiaEia Registered Users Posts: 3,627 Major grins
    edited January 13, 2012
    I would never have guessed that was Korea - BEAUTIFUL! I love that third image! How did you do that? The last one looks only a hair tilted but only if one stares at it1 :D It is so nice to see how the countryside has flourished!
    ~AnnaMaria~ My little life in God's big universe
  • CrokeyCrokey Registered Users Posts: 195 Major grins
    edited January 13, 2012
    Eia wrote: »
    I would never have guessed that was Korea - BEAUTIFUL! I love that third image! How did you do that? The last one looks only a hair tilted but only if one stares at it1 :D It is so nice to see how the countryside has flourished!

    Cheers Eia, I've spent the past year photographing that area so I know the angles to avoid putting apartment buildings and power pylons into the photos! I have photos in the gallery showing how close that area is to the city. It's actually quite unique, because with Korea being over 70percent mountain they have built or at least "gentrified" any piece of flat land in sight. That first photo does have an apartment complex and a hella ugly bridge in it if you look closely!
    With regards to the 3rd photo: one day when I had gotten sick of my wide-angle I stuck on my 80-200 and started crawling through bushes! Anything that comes very close to the lens creates this weird out-of focus, translucent textured effect. All I had to do was move the lens around until something worked. Once while I was lying flat in one dense patch of shrubland a pair of elderly Koreans out walking their dog happened upon me, just gave them the thumbs up and told them how beautiful their country was and they couldn't have been happier!

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    Regards,

    Colin Croke

    http://colincroke.smugmug.com/
  • LightMagicLightMagic Registered Users Posts: 261 Major grins
    edited January 13, 2012
    Very nice, the last B&W one was my favorite.
  • QarikQarik Registered Users Posts: 4,959 Major grins
    edited January 13, 2012
    gorgeous
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  • canghuixucanghuixu Registered Users Posts: 238 Major grins
    edited January 13, 2012
    Lovely! I hope that next time I visit Korea I can spend more time exploring outside of Seoul. Actually there is still a lot more to see and photograph in Seoul.

    On the issue of antennas and powerlines, one of the reasons I like photographing at night when I am in cities is that most of that extraneous stuff is hidden in the darkness.
  • Allan FGAllan FG Registered Users Posts: 492 Major grins
    edited January 13, 2012
    The second and third pictures are really nice thumb.gif
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  • CrokeyCrokey Registered Users Posts: 195 Major grins
    edited January 13, 2012
    Thanks for all the comments.I think I prefer the more intimate extracts of nature,too.Although I never would have guessed I would when I really got into photography 3 years ago.Thought it would all be big angles,glowing skies and moody landscapes and then I realised that just wasn't going to happen in a country so densely urbanised as dear old S. Korea.Should have gone North of the border for that;)
    Regards,

    Colin Croke

    http://colincroke.smugmug.com/
  • squirl033squirl033 Registered Users Posts: 1,230 Major grins
    edited January 14, 2012
    hiya, Colin... nice stuff here. never thought of Korea as anything but dead, brown hills... silly me, that's the NORTH side! :D anyway, i see you shoot a lot of the same sorts of things i do, landscape, nature, "microscapes"... welcome aboard!
    ~ Rocky
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  • John8John8 Registered Users Posts: 21 Big grins
    edited January 14, 2012
    Hi Colin, impressive stuff. Love the third photo, how did u freeze the bird, from what I can see it was taken at slow shutter right? John
  • CrokeyCrokey Registered Users Posts: 195 Major grins
    edited January 15, 2012
    John8 wrote: »
    Hi Colin, impressive stuff. Love the third photo, how did u freeze the bird, from what I can see it was taken at slow shutter right? John

    The bird was a very accommodating subject! It's a type of Crane, so they stand motionless for minutes on end waiting for a fish to happen by. He didn't so much as move a millimeter until he realised I was there, when he promptly took off.
    Regards,

    Colin Croke

    http://colincroke.smugmug.com/
  • Colorado CJColorado CJ Registered Users Posts: 155 Major grins
    edited January 15, 2012
    Awesome set of images. The first one really stands out for me. Great pano.
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  • NorthernFocusNorthernFocus Registered Users Posts: 1,347 Major grins
    edited January 16, 2012
    Really like the first two. Great sky in the pano. Nice job using the geomety of the rocks in the water. An even longer shutter may have been interesting. Well done.
    Dan

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  • CrokeyCrokey Registered Users Posts: 195 Major grins
    edited January 16, 2012
    NorthernFocus wrote: »
    Really like the first two. Great sky in the pano. Nice job using the geomety of the rocks in the water. An even longer shutter may have been interesting. Well done.

    thanks for the comments and I think you might be right about the longer shutter speed. I really need to invest in an ND filter some time soon...maybe when the weather is a bit warmer and I don't mind standing around for so long in the cold:D
    Regards,

    Colin Croke

    http://colincroke.smugmug.com/
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