Flower in San Diego Botanic Gardens.
Tag: Nature
Bark of cork
Honey bee on flowers
Giant Sequoia Tree
Half Dome
Lake Tahoe
Lake Tahoe at sunset
Mount Shasta
Flower
Table Rock
Flower
Blue Mountains, Australia
White beauty
Colorful chicken
Bird
Koala
Koala in Sydney’s Taronga Zoo. They are always very sleepy.
Flowers, Angel’s Rest Trail
Flowers on Angel’s Rest trail. A very popular hiking spot in the beautiful Columbia Gorge. It was a damp rainy day in the middle of summer. That’s why you see water droplets on the flower. I liked this flower for the striking colors. Shot with Nikon D80 with Nikon 18-200mm VR lens. No modifications besides cropping.Z
Red Leaves
Dog Mountain trail in the beautiful Columbia Gorge. I like this photo for the contrast the between foreground and the background. Shot with Nikon D80 and 35mm F/2.0D lens.
Ram Family
Dead Tree
Sunset at Flathead
Sunset at the Flathead Lake. We were taking a cruise in the lake while this photo was taken with Nikon D90 and Nikon 18-200mm VR lens. I have used a Brilliance/Warmth filter to enhance the orange glow in the sky and also done some retouching to adjust the color of the sky.
Lake McDonald, Glacier National Park
Flower, Hoyt Arboretum
Flowers, Bellagio Conservatory
Northwest Forest
Northwest Forest. This is a post-processed photo, to increase dynamic range called high dynamic range (HDR). Human eye can see approximately 20-24 F-stops worth of light intensity variation while most digital cameras can only capture 8-10 F-stops. What it means is what we see in a real scene can never be captured on a digital photo as it is. But with computers we can combine multiple images captured at various settings (called bracketing) and increase the dynamic range. This technique is most useful when shooting a subject with bright background like sky, snow, beach. In a normal photo, you either get a very bright overexposed sky and properly exposed object or very dark object and properly exposed sky, but never both. HDR image can depict both objects properly exposed by combining these two (or even more exposures). Notice in this photo that I’m pointing the camera directly at the sun, but still the tree barks, leaves etc. in the foreground are properly exposed. In a normal photo you would see them completely black in such case. Table Rock Trail (near Molalla, OR), Summer 2010.