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Tag: 2012 Fall Colours

  • Water Lilies

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    Water Lilies

    Seen in a beaver pond in Algonquin Park. This shot was taken handheld. The lens was set to f/8 to balance light and depth of field; with the subject about 8m away, f/8.0 give me a depth of field of just over 1m which was about what i needed.   The shot was composed to…

  • Sentenal Lookout

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    Sentenal Lookout

    This shot was taken handheld.  I under focused the shot to avoid capturing the distinctness of the leaves rather to capture points of colour, along the lines of pointillist techniques.  The shot was composed to backlight the leaves as well as offset them against a white background. I processed the image  with Color Efex using…

  • Peck Lake

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    Peck Lake

    This shot was taken on a tripod. The lens was shut down to f/16 to get as much depth of field as possible as well as the sense of dimension that comes with that.  I focused on the hyper-focal distance, which on the 50mm at f/16 is 525.8 cm.  I have used a laser range…

  • Hardwood Lookout #2

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    Hardwood Lookout #2

    A world without ones glasses it can be both beautiful and dangerous. This shot was taken while moving the camera upward. The exposure was 1/2 second.  There several techniques involving direction of the move (top down, bottom up, left right, twist), duration of the exposure, when to release the shutter (e.g., while the camera is…

  • Kettle Lake

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    Kettle Lake

    I processed this with Color Efex using the Polarization,  Detail, Darken-Lighten Center and Image Boarder filters.  The  Detail filter brings out texture  on the bark.  The Darken-Lighten enabled me to lighten the area around the trees for added emphasis.