Snow pics

Hi guys! Yes, I think this is my first entry this year just about! I took this in a place just outside Chicago with my G9. I kinda liked it, what do you guys think? I also will be taking a number of snow pics in the next 5 days as I'm in the Rockies at the moment. So any tips on snow photography would be hugely appreciated.

Mandy

Merry Christmas and stuff

All the best to all of you for the new year!

And some time for c&c too. I tried a long exposure shot in Cape Town the other day. Please let me know where I can improve.

Last month we flew with Mango to Cape Town for a little holiday. We stayed at Table View, from where one has a stunning view of the beautiful Table Mountain. In September 2009, the Seli 1, a Turkish freight ship ran aground in the bay, and was still stranded there when we visited the area. It received some negative media attention because of fear of pollution should the ship break up, and indeed it actually added some eeriness to a beautiful sunset.

The photo was taken using a shutter speed of 20 seconds, f/11, ISO 100, 18-55 mm Nikkor VR lens, set at 18 mm

Kind regards,

Nick

E's Macro's

Late, as usual, but in nonetheless. Here are my macro shots for last month's theme: The bottom image is of a lynx (?) spider in Isimangaliso (Side lighting from a single flash with a home-made softbox), Middle image, fly in the same field a month later with the same lighting setup and the top image of two mating locusts is in the Drakensberg...lighting is curtesy of a passing cloud to soften the harsh sun. All shot with a 105mm macro lens, bottom two on a tripod, top, handheld. One thing i quite like about the bottom two is hte mix of flash and ambient. I purposefully stretch the exposure past handheld limits. The flash captures everything in sharp focus but occasionally there is a slight halo blur around the edges of legs etc. which creates the impression of movement (most obvious in the spider shot) and also allows some of the ambient light to bring colour to the background rather than the tell-tale 'blackout' of a flashed macro shot. Any c and c always welcome.

Cheers
E

Documentary Style Photography

Ok – something new after all the excellent wildlife photography! I have very little experience of documentary photography, an area I want to explore more in the new year. Anyway, here are three documentary style pictures shot over the last 18 months – what do you think? I guess Paul is the expert here, comments? I have used PS – normal stuff, levels, curves etc – but have also sharpened and boosted the contrast of the eyes in all these shots, and obviously converted one to B&W.

The B&W image is of a cane cutter in KZN, the child was photographed last week at Fort Brown (having lunch!) and the other chap is a farm labourer from Gariep.

Cheers,

Neil.