john101477
Photographer in the Wild
Amazing how many people never think to dissect a waterfall. some of the best waterfall images comes from well thought out portions of the waterfall over the entire fall itself
Very well done.
Very well done.
grntrdtaco
Adventurer
thanks it was a really hard shot to get. standing in the river, all the rocks ridiculously slippery and i think that one is a 5 shot panoramic. i fell in a few times and the tripod moved while spinning the camera around and had to start all over. each shot was a few second exposure so it took forever when i had to start again. the whole time the light was creeping up and i only had a 3 stop ND filter with me so i had to get it done fast while it was still in shadow or i wouldnt get the shot.
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john101477
Photographer in the Wild
This turned out to be a little darker than I wanted but I like it anyways
This hawk was cool.
Central Florida
This hawk was cool.
Central Florida
Blackwater
Im getting old! :(
Few from a recent trip: Sorry they both have a little LC flava...
Moab UT;
Independence Pass, Continental divide;
Moab UT;
Independence Pass, Continental divide;
esh
Explorer
Funny, I'd never even thought to dissect a waterfall even though I always focus on certain aspects when I look at them.
(roof rack/access talk) Herculiner makes for great non-skid grip on metal surfaces. You can stir up a quart to your grippiness liking. Works well for sliders if you use them to get in and out, especially in wet/cold weather season.
grndtaco- are you using Coker P filters for all the ND work? Having serious prime lens envy. I think the 24/1.4 might be a good christmas present to the 5D2.
spring flow at a small Coast Range falls
Native fishing platforms at Sherars Falls
(roof rack/access talk) Herculiner makes for great non-skid grip on metal surfaces. You can stir up a quart to your grippiness liking. Works well for sliders if you use them to get in and out, especially in wet/cold weather season.
grndtaco- are you using Coker P filters for all the ND work? Having serious prime lens envy. I think the 24/1.4 might be a good christmas present to the 5D2.
spring flow at a small Coast Range falls
Native fishing platforms at Sherars Falls
john101477
Photographer in the Wild
Funny, I'd never even thought to dissect a waterfall even though I always focus on certain aspects when I look at them.
(roof rack/access talk) Herculiner makes for great non-skid grip on metal surfaces. You can stir up a quart to your grippiness liking. Works well for sliders if you use them to get in and out, especially in wet/cold weather season.
grndtaco- are you using Coker P filters for all the ND work? Having serious prime lens envy. I think the 24/1.4 might be a good christmas present to the 5D2.
Many people never to esh. The guy that taught me was a master at it and while I am no master, I am getting better at it.
A cpl of ND filters and a GND are always nice to have. I have used a cpl of different liner materials including the herculiner. I actually like the way the duplicolor stuff works better. being in florida at the moment, if I do pull the trigger on the roof I may do the sand trick.
grntrdtaco
Adventurer
i went with sand because its cheap, lightweight and sticks to paint. its feels just like grip tape now. i was up there in the rain all weekend and it was very grippy and never felt that i would slip off.
my platform gets beat up (trees etc smash it up and i am constantly up there wearing out the finish) i bent one of my yakama racks straight back on the rubicon earlier this summer and i didnt even know it had happened until about a week after the trip. I find myself on extremely tight overgrown roads that see little to no use it seems.
if you go with some fancy setup, then a fancy paint, when it gets trashed you have lost a weekend+ of putting it back together and a bunch of money. I would rather spend that time exploring and the money on gas. a half sheet of plywood, a quart of paint and a few handfuls of sand (i used black slag, its much grittier than play sand) is simple and it works. you can be finished in a few hours tops. if it gets trashed its not a big deal.
with herculiner type material you need to encase the entire object in the "paint" or it will eventually peel off. painting sliders with that would be a one trip paint job for me. they would get trashed on the underside of the slider and then start peeling off on the top. the entire underside of my sliders are dented and scraped to bare metal almost all the time.
my platform gets beat up (trees etc smash it up and i am constantly up there wearing out the finish) i bent one of my yakama racks straight back on the rubicon earlier this summer and i didnt even know it had happened until about a week after the trip. I find myself on extremely tight overgrown roads that see little to no use it seems.
if you go with some fancy setup, then a fancy paint, when it gets trashed you have lost a weekend+ of putting it back together and a bunch of money. I would rather spend that time exploring and the money on gas. a half sheet of plywood, a quart of paint and a few handfuls of sand (i used black slag, its much grittier than play sand) is simple and it works. you can be finished in a few hours tops. if it gets trashed its not a big deal.
with herculiner type material you need to encase the entire object in the "paint" or it will eventually peel off. painting sliders with that would be a one trip paint job for me. they would get trashed on the underside of the slider and then start peeling off on the top. the entire underside of my sliders are dented and scraped to bare metal almost all the time.
grntrdtaco
Adventurer
grndtaco- are you using Coker P filters for all the ND work? Having serious prime lens envy. I think the 24/1.4 might be a good christmas present to the 5D2.
I use a singh-ray thin vari ND filter. easier to have one filter in the bag for stills and video (shooting wide open in the daytime) rather than a bunch of differing densities.
john101477
Photographer in the Wild
So you dont use a GND at all?
I am gonna have t get me one of those vari ND's though. Thats pretty darn slick
grntrdtaco
Adventurer
i dont have any idea what that is
the pricetag on the vari ND's will induce a heart attack. watch out.
the pricetag on the vari ND's will induce a heart attack. watch out.
esh
Explorer
GND = graduated ND
Have never seen a vari-filter like that. Seems well worth the price.
Meant Cokin, not Coker (vintage tires, heh). I like I can put a holder on and adust fairly easily with 3 slots. Still have lots of practice to do with filters and enjoy looking at all the great work posted.
Have never seen a vari-filter like that. Seems well worth the price.
Meant Cokin, not Coker (vintage tires, heh). I like I can put a holder on and adust fairly easily with 3 slots. Still have lots of practice to do with filters and enjoy looking at all the great work posted.
grntrdtaco
Adventurer
oh i have them but they dont go in the bag anymore. you can get cheaper nd faders on amazon or make your own with 2 linear polarizers.
all of my daytime shots are hdr now so i dont have a use for the grad filters. i shoot 2 stops under, 1 normal and 2 over and i usually underexpose the entire lot of frames. i pick and choose areas of the frame to put together. i dont use software HDR i think that looks absurd, my shots kind of borderline on that sometimes but i try to stay away from it.
from this weekend at diemer lake, really great DEEEP pine forest in colorado. raining a good part of the time i was out and it felt like i was in the northwest. lots of old growth forests mushrooms and big stumps back there. i did get lucky and get clear night skies and mornings.
this one was taken this past sat. trees starting to turn on the east and west sides of the cont divide went from reudi to leadville to halfmoon to indi pass, awesome trip.
all of my daytime shots are hdr now so i dont have a use for the grad filters. i shoot 2 stops under, 1 normal and 2 over and i usually underexpose the entire lot of frames. i pick and choose areas of the frame to put together. i dont use software HDR i think that looks absurd, my shots kind of borderline on that sometimes but i try to stay away from it.
from this weekend at diemer lake, really great DEEEP pine forest in colorado. raining a good part of the time i was out and it felt like i was in the northwest. lots of old growth forests mushrooms and big stumps back there. i did get lucky and get clear night skies and mornings.
this one was taken this past sat. trees starting to turn on the east and west sides of the cont divide went from reudi to leadville to halfmoon to indi pass, awesome trip.
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john101477
Photographer in the Wild
IMO the only reason most HDR looks absurd is because many have come to expect HDR to look that way. Sorry, the sky is not supposed to look like a rainbow unless there is really a rainbow there lol. There are a couple of programs that do HDR right IMO but very few. I am not to sure how you pick and chose areas to be HDR and not HDR... not quite split toning either by the sound of it. would like to hear more about your process.
Also a polorizer could never be a ND, they do 2 very different things. I often use both together.
And yeah I looked at the cost of that Vari ND, If I did not already have great glass ND filters already I would jump at it.
john101477
Photographer in the Wild
Funny that this should come up today. I was out shooting this morning and found this Heron. Amazingly he sat still long enough for me to bracket 3 images (+/- 2 stops). I am not a fan of over done HDR myself and this image actually is closer to what I want to see in my images.
Now I have also found that sometimes HDR is not needed to get the most out of an image. This is not an HDR. just a single image with a good exposure and process carefully in raw and then enhanced slightly in PS
Now I have also found that sometimes HDR is not needed to get the most out of an image. This is not an HDR. just a single image with a good exposure and process carefully in raw and then enhanced slightly in PS