TREE THREAD - Post your tree shots here

[ScoutR]

Nice Arith!!! I really like this type of light. Makes me want to go for a walk. You are doing great with the new camera. I like the light on the cedar tree (tall tree) too.

Wendy

[arith]

Cheers Wendy; actually I thought this was blown to bits so it got Topazed after I did the others and found it wasn't blown but there is white flowers in it. Still it is a bit of an exageration on reality although it was very nice here at 6am it was still very bright and presented me with challenges I'm not used to.

I'd rather photograph interesting light than interesting subjects and I suppose I've got Rob to thank for making me want to get up at 3am to see what all the fuss is about.

[batman44]

Good colours, Kori. Looks as if you live in a nice spot.

Thanks Rob! I live in a beautiful area - we have the Menominee River to the West and Lake Michigan/Green Bay to the East! These pictures howerver were taken a bit north of my house - we own some land about 45 miles north as a little get away. Beautiful in the mornings and in the Fall with all the trees changing colors! Hope one day to make it our retirement home!

[batman44]

Forest Glade

Here's a wee shot from the pine forest covering Screel, a small mountain, in SW Scotland.




Cheers

David

Very thick - but beautiful! I bet the pine smells awesome in the morning! I love the smell of pine!

[rpcrowe]

I love it!

[rpcrowe]

Tree growing from top of rock formation... Red Canyon, Utah, USA, near Bryce Canyon National Park... Afternoon shot using 70-200mm f/4L IS lens and CPL filter to bring out the color from which the canyon derives its name.

[rpcrowe]

Pine tree growing from lava formation in Utah, USA

[Loose Canon]

Beautiful shotos, rpcrowe.

I don't know if you live there, but I'll be in UT in a couple of weeks or so for an epic monumental boating trip on the Green. About a week on the water. I have traveled the Canyonlands quite a bit and done the Colorado and Green rivers out there.

It is awesome country and I'm totally looking forward to this trip. The evening light really lights the canyon formations up out there.

Hopefully I can catch something even half as nice as these! I'm gonna wear that Canon out trying, though!

[Antonio Correia]

[pwnage101]

Three image pano - 18mm - f7.1 - ISO 100 - 1/320s - Nikon D80

[arith]

[Peter Ryan]

Nikon D70s, 18mm, 0.3sec@f8, -0.67EV,,ISO 400

[Peter Ryan]

I agree Rob,

Great shot Donald.

[Peter Ryan]

I have done a lot of horse riding in the “High Country” – read – alpine national parks. This was my first visit to the summit of Mt Stirling. The only this there was this lone snow gum. They are normally stunted, twisted and gnarled from the weight of now on them. They have deciduous bark that takes on different colours as the exposed wood matures. When wet the colours range from black through red and rusty brown to deep greens, light greens and then almost white.

[Dave Humphries]

Peter,

I have my eye on you

You keep posting consistently high quality pictures (all over, not just here), putting the rest of us to shame ... or maybe inspiring us to do better.

Thanks,

[Peter Ryan]

Thanks Dave,

Like all here at CiC it is a passion. I feel I am beginning to develope my style and I am enjoying my photograpghy very much.

[Letrow]

One of the sequoias is Yosemite. This one is huge and dead, but still impressive.

[Peter Ryan]

One of the sequoias is Yosemite. This one is huge and dead, but still impressive.

Hi Peter,

Very strong contrasts here. I understand very well coming from Australia and the brightness we have to deal with in shots that you cannot always be in the right place when the light is best.

I don't know if you use any post production software but the Shadow/ Highlights command can help but you need to add some saturation, contrast and bring in the back and white clipping points, just a tad, afterwards. There are other measures as well but that is a simple start and can be done with the freeby program – Rawtherapee.

[Letrow]

Hi Peter,

Very strong contrasts here. I understand very well coming from Australia and the brightness we have to deal with in shots that you cannot always be in the right place when the light is best.

I don't know if you use any post production software but the Shadow/ Highlights command can help but you need to add some saturation, contrast and bring in the back and white clipping points, just a tad, afterwards. There are other measures as well but that is a simple start and can be done with the freeby program – Rawtherapee.

Thanks Peter. I actually do just two things to my photos from this camera: Color Levels, which adjusts the contrast slightly and minimal sharpening. On this one there wasn't much I could do with Color Levels.
I use Gimp, so could have used Advanced Tone Mapping, which would have improved contrasts a bit more, but I decided to go 'pure' for a while with this (new) Nikon camera and use minimal adjustments only. I might change my opinion in a while again, but it is fun in a way to see what you get from the camera itself.
But I do agree with you, contrast is strong in this one.

[Steve H]