I would like to thank everyone over here at PNWNP for taking some time out of their regularly-scheduled conversations to help me both this year and last in planning my Olympic outing that I took two weeks ago. I consider the journey a success, and I am definitely on the hook for another visit to round out the experience a bit.
If some of you would be so kind, I wouldn't mind a critique / favorite(s) pick of the shots I've processed (so far). On "Sunburst and Sea Stacks" I got digitally involved and lightened up the water and beach a bit, but otherwise only did levels/curves and a little saturation adjustment.
All shots: Nikon D2X, 12-24mm, 28-105mm, or 80-400mm (mushrooms add 500D close-up lens).
Olympic trip samples The shots will probably only remain for a week or two, until the thread is dead and I'm otherwise done with them.
Les,
I can't get the link to work. I do like the the image above. It's typical of the NW, especially west of the cascades. Glad you had a successful trip.
Link works fine here but I want to see it all on my calibrated monitor tonight before responding. Offhand I am drawn to your forest shots, but maybe that's because what I like to work on and I realize the challenges there.
More later.
Posted by Ned Fenimore on May 31, 2006 at 10:55 AM
Fine work. I really like the first coastal images, and the tiny tidepool the best.
Eric, try adding a trailing '/' to the link; some browsers are more picky than others on that... I've tested on IE 6 and Firefox 1.5 (Windows), but the pages were created by a throw-together Perl script, so I haven't done much testing on them...
I suppose you could also be hanging up on the META Refresh: try The actual first page...
Other eric (sorry, you two just had to be the first two responses ) - boy, you aren't kidding about those forest challenges. I think I visited on the sunniest week of the century; I had to resort to dawn/dusk runs at Hoh to get anything close to good lighting, and then had 15-30 second exposures during which I prayed that there wasn't even a slight breeze. I could never have done that here in Colorado! I await your leisure at a color-calibrated monitor and look forward to your critique.
Ned, I'm assuming by 'tiny tidepool' you mean the one with the star, the anemone, and the limpet? I'm kind of attached to that one, and lucky I got it. Spiny stars like that one are supposed to be found far out in the tidal pools according to my limited research; this one was cruising around at Mach 5 (for a starfish, anyway) in this tiny, sandy pool just off the Beach 4 trail. It was vaguely unsettling watching it advancing across the pool; if I were a mollusk, I'd definitely have been scared.
Ugh - I think I need a new monitor. Just been testing some monitors at work and noticed... Just the slightest OOF on your monitor, and you don't notice the JPEG artifacts or the over-sharpening. Remove the fuzziness, and I definitely overdid it. Pls ignore the above defects if you can see them; I'll correct them tonight...
I'm no pro, just an avid hobbyist. But, here are the shots that grabbed me: Golden Ruby Sunset - nice composition, cool atmospheric layering of the rocks. Sea Stars - tide pools are hard to shoot, but I liked the symmetry of this one. Maybe play with the contrast or dodge and burn to make it pop a bit more. Spiny Tidepool - I like this one, too. If it were mine it would be a ripe candidate for manipulation. Bunch Falls - nice composition. Maybe dodge and burn some of the plants in the upper left and right so the green areas don't look so flat.
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9 repliesIf some of you would be so kind, I wouldn't mind a critique / favorite(s) pick of the shots I've processed (so far). On "Sunburst and Sea Stacks" I got digitally involved and lightened up the water and beach a bit, but otherwise only did levels/curves and a little saturation adjustment.
All shots: Nikon D2X, 12-24mm, 28-105mm, or 80-400mm (mushrooms add 500D close-up lens).
Olympic trip samples The shots will probably only remain for a week or two, until the thread is dead and I'm otherwise done with them.
Thanks in advance.
I can't get the link to work. I do like the the image above. It's typical of the NW, especially west of the cascades. Glad you had a successful trip.
More later.
I suppose you could also be hanging up on the META Refresh: try The actual first page...
Ned, I'm assuming by 'tiny tidepool' you mean the one with the star, the anemone, and the limpet? I'm kind of attached to that one, and lucky I got it. Spiny stars like that one are supposed to be found far out in the tidal pools according to my limited research; this one was cruising around at Mach 5 (for a starfish, anyway) in this tiny, sandy pool just off the Beach 4 trail. It was vaguely unsettling watching it advancing across the pool; if I were a mollusk, I'd definitely have been scared.
Golden Ruby Sunset - nice composition, cool atmospheric layering of the rocks.
Sea Stars - tide pools are hard to shoot, but I liked the symmetry of this one. Maybe play with the contrast or dodge and burn to make it pop a bit more.
Spiny Tidepool - I like this one, too. If it were mine it would be a ripe candidate for manipulation.
Bunch Falls - nice composition. Maybe dodge and burn some of the plants in the upper left and right so the green areas don't look so flat.
Looks like you have a great time!