Shots in the forest .... what do ya think?

[Draken]

i took these shot in a forest kinda close to my house all opinions welcome

http://i346.photobucket.com/albums/p429/draken25/Totara-Forest-Stream-02-Final.jpg

http://i346.photobucket.com/albums/p429/draken25/Totara-Forest-Tree-Stump-Final.jpg

http://i346.photobucket.com/albums/p429/draken25/Totara-Rapids-Final.jpg

 

[RyanMillerPhoto]

Very nice, I like them!

 

[LynziMarie]

I like the first and third very much! I love the water!

just a tip though, people will be more inclined to look and post if you post the actual picture

 

[Draken]

i know but im not sure how lol

 

[castrol]

Image tags.

[ img ] image address goes here without the spaces and [ /img ] at the end.

 

[bullitt453]

Great shots. Must be magnificent to have a forest such as that so close to home.

Here are your shots for those who do not wish to click. lol

1)

2)

3)

 

[swmocity]

looks nice
i like it

 

[Hawaii Five-O]

Great pics! Is that eucalyptus tree in the 2nd pic?

 

[sneshanian]

beautiful photos.

it must be amazing to live close to a place like that! what kind of wildlife do you run into there?

 

[zandman]

the water looks like a painting,
how did you do that?
it's cool.

 

[LaFoto]

That is one green forest. I cannot BUT like these photos very much, since they sport my favourite colour!
The first is easily my favourite of the three (and a tip: when you link from Photobucket, always highlight the FOURTH of the given lines with the URL, the one that already says "IMG-code", then your photos will get embedded).
It was dark enough for you to use a long shutter speed and thus blur out the water like you did. I assume you walked with your tripod in tow and made good use of it!?

 

[Draken]

yup i sure did i never shoot without my tripod!, it wasn't too dark a day but being a typical winter day in New Zealand it went from rain to sun half a dozen times over the span of two hours!. I used a ND8 Neutral Density filter to achieve the longer shutter speed (was around 15secs i think ) was taken at f22. I have no idea how the water looked so "painting" like it just turned out that way after i increased recovery and clarity in ACR then sharpened the image followed by a levels curve. thanks for your comments - and unfortunately there was no wildlife in this forest we dont get much of that in NZ sadly.

 

[Computer_Generated]

Very nice. I like #2 and #3 the best too. That is some sweet cotton candy water you got there.

 

[Ron Evers]

Well it looks like I am the only one in step in this parade.

I find the water distracting in that it looks like plastic. I would use a faster shutter to preserve the water look.

 

[manaheim]

Wow very nice. Neat water effect.

Where's the velociraptor???