Belize

surfingfireman · Oct 24, 2006

I am finally settled in my new house after moving cities with my internet up and running after about 3 months of living in limbo. Now that I am all set with a DSLR and a high speed connection, a have vowed to post more pics on here. Here are some from my honeymoon in Belize.

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Questions, Comments, Critiques more then welcome. Thanks for looking.

Mike

JBLoudG20 · Oct 24, 2006

I really like #2 and #8.

lostprophet · Oct 24, 2006

thump!!

thats the sound of my jaw hitting the ground!

AWESOME SHOTS

KenCo · Oct 24, 2006

All very good shots but 1,2&8 are very nice.

tpe · Oct 24, 2006

Very nice indeed.

It is clearly a horrible place to be NOT, great stuff, makes me want to be there right now.

LaFoto · Oct 24, 2006

Way cool, they ALL are really, really nice, 2 and 8 have true viewcard quality, though my favourite will probably always be 1 and 6 - 6 for its graphic element and its colours.
Colours are good in ALL of them ... the colours must be totally extra special there, anyway!

W.Smith · Oct 24, 2006

surfingfireman said:
[...] have vowed to post more pics on here. Here are some from my honeymoon in Belize.

Purdy pix, Mike! Crystal clear and nice coloring.

I see your handle. And I see your photos. But I don't see your new wife . . .
Did you really go there for a honeymoon? :wink:

Your photos look polarized at least. But I wouldn't be surprised if they are HDR (blended exposures). Would you care to share how you set these photos up and/or what PP you applied to them?

The draining Caribean Sea in no. 1 is unneccessarily disturbing, though. Could (and should, of course) obviously be rectified (literally) in PP. But even that isn't neccessary if you use the grid overlay in the viewfinder, like so:

(This is a KonicaMinolta grid overlay. I'm assuming your 7D has one too, of course; check the manual).

Tantalus · Oct 24, 2006

Wow you're good, my favorite is 1, 3 and 8.

photo gal · Oct 24, 2006

You did a great job with all of these....Just beautiful!! : )

surfingfireman · Oct 24, 2006

Thanks for more nice comments.
And W. Smith, thank you very much for the advice. I have a nasty habit of tilting my horizons, so yeah the grid would be a great idea. In fact, now that you mention it, the slant in #3 is even worse then #1.

I pretty much always use a polarizer, the one (and only one) I have is a Moose Petersen Warming Polarizer, I love it! I have come to determine that the exposure latitude is REALLY small in my 7D (are most DSLR's this bad) so I often take a couple shots to get exposure for the sky and the foreground. I then combine the photos in PS.

C-YA

Mike

ClarkKent · Oct 24, 2006

Fantastic Colour in all of them. Nicely Done!!!

pursuer · Oct 24, 2006

Yes, besides the consistently slanted horizons these are all gorgeous. Nice post work, you could also use PS to straighten things up a bit. Very good series.