First Pics Australia Rainforest Holiday

[Wozza]

Going to upload a few pics a day, took a whole heap of photo's - here are the first four. All shots on my trusty Canon 20d.
1

Rivermouth out to the sea. Heaps of light so a quick handheld shot with fast shutter at f13 ISO 100.



2

Shot into the sunlight so was taken f22, I did use a Tripod, edited the curves and added a vignette with a big brush on a new layer - repeat a couple of times with each layer being somewhere near 2% for transparancy.



3

This is an HDR from 3 exposures, blended in Artizen and then curves and resize in photoshop.



4

I like this, bit of a candid shot. The exposure and DOF washed out the backgroud well enough with only a little slotch needing a swift cloning and then a curves adjustment.

Hope you enjoyed the pics, keep a look out as I'll be making a heap of topics around here with Crocodiles, Parrots, Train Rides and a Balloon trip over the rainforest.

Please leave any comments or crits here. Feedback is appreciated as are crits as I'm always keen to learn but of course can't reshoot.

 

[Dmitri]

Wonderful shots! Those clouds in pic #2 look dangerous!

 

[Cameron Cushman]

#4 is my favorite, but all of them are great

 

[Wozza]

Wonderful shots! Those clouds in pic #2 look dangerous!

Yeah, it was an amazing sight, would have been kicking myself if I didn;t have the camera at that moment! Thanks.

#4 is my favorite, but all of them are great

Cheers - glad it wasn't my head it landed on.

 

[danir]

Wonderful skies.

 

[DragonHeart]

#4 looks like it could be created into a nice desktop wallpaper great shots... beautiful photos..

 

[Blackbelt94]

nice so you shot hdr's and joined them to make one great image, sorry im a noob but i want to know if i should start shooting raw instead of jpegs.

 

[LaFoto]

They are good and make me look forward to your next installment. I was at first expecting to see a lot more green when I read where you spent your holidays, but maybe all the green is yet to come?