Landscape Roll Call
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Lauren, All of my landscapes inevitably have fishermen in them………. I guess that makes them fishing scenes rather than traditional landscapes. This one isn’t even in “landscape” format but its a shot I like.
I like this one particularly for the sky.
And this a “dans la lumiere” landscape.
This is actually Christmas Island and really only be described as a “seascape”
Morsie
Looking forward to seeing what everyone posts. This is something I’d like to work on taking more of …
added the last two, because they near West 🙂
Nice Corey, that river bend shot is a pearler. Landscapes with a fish-eye lens is something different. Great use of the shape of the river and the shape of the lens.
Lauren – look to the sky, clouds are great and usually make an image, as you have noted. As Dave Anderson and I are want to say “good cloudage mate”.
Thanks Morsie! “good cloudage mate” has just gone on my list 🙂
Lauren : Yeah, Fisheye… 🙂 The last shot @ Reynolds Bridge is also a cropped fisheye shot!
May not be a fish-eye, just a wide angle pointed down that leads to a curved horizon but I’m sure Corey will tell us………
Lauren as mentioned in a previous post Lightroom’s graduated filter function is GREAT, outstanding in fact – I just don’t bother carrying filters anymore, not even polarisers.
Morsie
Lauren, you are going to be “locked-and-loaded” for your trip out west. Â I am always cautious when discussing landscape photography because, as you know, I focus mainly on macro photography. Â Most of my knowledge on landscape comes from Richard Bernabe. Â A full day hands on session with him was an excellent learning experience. Â I have yet to shoot scenery with the D300/12-24 (that’s on my to-do-learn list, LOL). Nice shots so far, especially that fish eye from Corey.
Here are a few landscapes from Glacier (GNP) Montana. Â These were taken with the D50 and the 18-200 VR lens. Â
The pseudo tilt-shift technique in PS can produce very striking effects “IF” you shoot from the correct camera angle – above and looking down.
I like to play around with film filters – this one is a Kodachrome rendition – kind of old-school effect.
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These are from the Badlands, SC (edit: I meant, South Dakota)
Painted desert (the saturation is as-shot, no manipulation – that place is God’s country beautiful).
Lately, I have been having fun shooting the lightning storms here in town.
Don’t forget the small stuff!!!  😉
Morsie,
I agree that the new adjustment brush and graduated filter in Lightroom 2 are very useful. Â They save a lot of time by not having to switch to Photoshop with complex layer masks. Â However, I still use PS over LR for most of the real touchups because LR doesn’t allow for fine manipulation and tends to give baked results.
Have you downloaded the free WOW presets for Lightroom by Jack Davis? Â You can get them here http://www.ononesoftware.com/detail.php?prodLine_id=33. There are a ton of develop presets and 10 adjustment brush expansions. Â All very helpful in the workflow.
Lauren: I didn’t mean to hijack your post by talking about Lightroom. Â But this might be helpful for you as well since you have LR2.
Neal thanks for that but I hope my stuff doesn’t need that much work  ;D ;D ;D
Lauren I think you have to develop an eye for the unusual and never let the opportunity go by. The mundane usually remains mundane. There’s usually something graphic in a sky or in the landscape you can utilise to lift a pic from the ordinary and out of the holiday snap category.
All of these stand out for that simple reason, the exploitation of something eye-catching. Train your eye – sometimes you have to force yourself to drop whatever you’re doing or even to stop the car to seize the moment when you see something  :o. Practise saying “ZACH, STOP THE CAR”!!!  ;D ;D ;D 😀 Don’t do this  :-X ::) 😎
Apologies for the wild blue border, I know it occasionally clashes a little……….
MorsieMay not be a fish-eye, just a wide angle pointed down that leads to a curved horizon but I’m sure Corey will tell us………
Lauren as mentioned in a previous post Lightroom’s graduated filter function is GREAT, outstanding in fact – I just don’t bother carrying filters anymore, not even polarisers.
Morsie
Agree with you 100%
The filter tool has changed my life.
Great thread Lauren! Love what I’m seeing so far.
Many if not most of my fishing images are geared toward putting us fisherpeople in the context of the environment we choose to fish. I still wonder if it can be done!.? One can see hundreds of attempts on my flickr page, some oldies but goodies, new, color, b+w, infrared, electricity and silver halide. I thought I’d post few new fishless digital infrared shots from the last couple weeks to mix it up.
Good luck on your journey out west Mathews fam! Look us up if yer’ through this neck of the woods.
DB
Some real nice stuff posted thus far. Off to Montana in about 30 min., but thought I’d post a couple before I take off.
Big Cottonwood Creek, UT
King’s Peak Wilderness Area, UT
Alpine Loop, UT
Big Cottonwood Canyon, UT
Big Cottonwood Canyon, UT
Big Cottonwood Canyon, UT
King’s Peak Wilderness Area, UT
Alta, UT
Bryce Canyon Nat’l Park, UT
Guardsman Pass, UT
Middle Provo River, UT
Park City, UT
I can’t contribute, but Franie said I can post his stuff here anytime…
Francois Botha…
Cosmolido… theres something about the clean air…
My Fav
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