A few nature pictures

Prezwoodz

Hello!
This is guess is my first post here. I am from Alaska and these were taken this last summer. The season is just around the corner for new shots so i was hoping maybe i could get some critique before i head back out for the summer shots! Taken with the fuji f700.

30 feet from the hot tub.



30 feet from the cabin.


Some watermellon berries.

Allen

Welcome to Dgrin Prezwoodz, lovely shots. Did you have to use a ND filter
for the longer exposures? They came out beautiful.

Looking forward to many more Alaskan shots.
Al

Prezwoodz

Thanks Allen !

Actually i dont have any filters! There are a few i would like to get though.

lynnma

Prezwoodz wrote:

Thanks Allen !

Actually i dont have any filters! There are a few i would like to get though.

Welcome welcome.. glad you found us.. looking forward to more of your lovely shots..

Harryb

Prezwoodz wrote:

Hello!
This is guess is my first post here. I am from Alaska and these were taken this last summer. The season is just around the corner for new shots so i was hoping maybe i could get some critique before i head back out for the summer shots! Taken with the fuji f700.

Welcome Prezwoods,

Those are really nice shots. Thanks for sharing them. You may want to get some ND filters for those water shots. Put your camera on a tripod with the ND filter attached and you will get a nice long exposure and with that silky effect on the water.

Looking forward to seeing some more of your pics.

lark

Welcome Prezwoods,

These are great! Looking for more Alaska. Where are these taken(which part of the State)? They are beautiful.

I ask 'cause we will be in Alaska in early Sept. (honeymoon) and this is the stuff I'd like to see!...

Glad you are here!

Den

bfjr

Whada ya mean 30' from Hottub??
You lucky dog

Glad your here. You will get great help and honest comments, along with some awesome images for inspireation (spelling, my bad again). I know I have.thumb

Prezwoodz

Thanks for all the feedback! I dont really know anything about filters. What does the ND filter do? And i use a digital without removable lenses how easy is it to get filters for those?

My Camera

Oh and bfjr heres a pic looking exactly behind where i took the pic of the river next to the hot tub. This is my girlfreind getting the tub ready

Dixie

Prezwoodz wrote:

Thanks for all the feedback! I dont really know anything about filters. What does the ND filter do? And i use a digital without removable lenses how easy is it to get filters for those?

My Camera

Oh and bfjr heres a pic looking exactly behind where i took the pic of the river next to the hot tub. This is my girlfreind getting the tub ready

About the only way you can use Neutral Density filters with that camera is to hold them in front of the lens. I've done that before.

You really don't need them for the shot. The ND filters allow you to take longer exposures to allow the water to "flow" showing motion. You have that already. You were probably using averaging for your light readings with the built in meter so the flowing water just whited out on you. If your camera allows spot or center weighted you will get more of a proper exposure for the water so it won't "blow" out on you and you will be able to see more detail in the water (see example below).

Prezwoodz

Hmm...i think i see what you mean Dixie. I actually do have one with less of a whiteout on the water. Took about 4 pictures of it. for some reason the more exposed one just stuck out on me But i do undestand how it could be a distraction

Dixie

Prezwoodz wrote:

Hmm...i think i see what you mean Dixie. I actually do have one with less of a whiteout on the water. Took about 4 pictures of it. for some reason the more exposed one just stuck out on me But i do undestand how it could be a distraction

I don't know how well you know Photoshop (or some other editing program), but when faced with a lot of very light or white areas and also a lot of dark or darkly colored areas, the camera has a fit "seeing" it all. Our eyes and mind compensate automatically for a much wider light to dark areas in a scene. However, a camera only sees a portion of it. When that happens you have to "fool" the camera. In this case, you could have exposed for the lightest areas to bring them in range and then use an editing program to lighten the shadow areas to give you a better tonal range.

Rule of thumb is that you can bring out more detail in dark areas then you can add detail to light areas. Therefore, when faced with lighting extremes of very dark to very light, shoot for the lighter areas and then adjust the shadow areas to bring up the detail.

Hope this helps.