And another proud new 40D owner.

salazar

Hello all, I picked up my new 40D Friday afternoon and managed a few hundred shots over the weekend. I love, its great! I'm waiting on a EF 24-105mm f/4L IS USM I've ordered to go with it, until it arrives I'm using my trusty old (1989?) EF 35-105mm f/3.5-4.5. Here's a few of what I've come up with so far:

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and another:

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and another one:

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and one more:

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These various shots were taken around Cape Breton Island, mostly between Coxheath Mountain, Frenchvale, North Sydney, Point Edward and Ben Eoin, October 13th & 14th, 2007. These are the first shots taken with my new Canon EOS 40D digital camera. I like it, it seems to work OK. If you'd like to see a few more take a look at: http://picasaweb.google.ca/heatonphotos/FallColours2007

Thanks for looking. salazar

sirsloop

good stuff! That first one pops nicely eh?

Terrence

Nice shots. Welcome to the Club 40D!

salazar

Thank you sirsloop, Terrence. There's a few in there I like. I post processed (PP) them in Google's Picasa-2 from the jpegs because I knew they were going to the web and Picasa is fast but I think I will redo some of them from the RAW files in CS3 on some rainy day (when I'm trying to avoid housework). It will be a learning experience for me as I've never worked from RAW and haven't really tried out CS3 yet (I just got it last week).

Thanks for looking!

Harveylevine

Ken:
These are really nice and the fall colours are nicely rendered by your 40D. Good luck with it.

I think no. 1 is great and wouldn't change anything; it has such a peaceful feel. No. 2 is also idyllic and well composed. I like the way the redish brown color of the horses in the late afternoon sunshine is complemented by the red leaves. I'd use the clone tool in ACR 4 or in Photoshop to remove the bird (or dust) in the upper left corner as it's a bit of a distraction.

I like the view in no. 3 and I think the composition might be improved by placing the horizon somewhere other than in the middle of the picture. The usual rule of thirds would really help make this a great shot. The sky is very good so you might want to place the horizon at the lower third of the image and emphasize the clouds or move it to the upper third and emphasize the tan plants in the foreground. This is a good candidate for cropping to improve the composition.

The dark, mysterious stream under the trees in no. 4 is a very good compositional element but the blown out sky detracts from the composition. I'd suggest cropping most of the sky off the top and perhaps take something off the left bank to focus on the trees and stream on the right.

I like the shots very much and they make me want to visit your photogenic region.

Harvey