Weekend hike

[Dylan8i]

So my b-day was on friday but i worked... so saturdy i took a trip to McConnells mills state park in western PA. its one of my favorite places.... i didn't get much hiking done but i did get some good shots. let me know what you think.

[mn shutterbug]

All good, but I especially love the 2nd one. I don't care for the blurry background on the first one. The salamander should have been picked up and moved to a nicer background. I think I would have also tried for a little more DOF so his whole tail would be in focus.

[Dylan8i]

i'm nto sure what you mean by blurry background? the first one is a time blurr of a rapid. and the background rock is lit by the sun (made it hard to get a good exposure).

does the tilt of the second one bother you? i didn't notice it until i posted it. seems like the water is falling to the right, not straight down.

the salamander was moved from a pile of sand/gravel to a more consistent background. yeah i should have bumped the apature up a bit. i've been fooling around with apature alot lately, must have just forgot on that one.

thx for the reply mike.

[WesternGuy]

Dylan, they all look good. :thumbsup: I like the mushrooms the best, but then that is just my humble opinion.

Cheers,

WesternGuy

[mn shutterbug]

i'm nto sure what you mean by blurry background? the first one is a time blurr of a rapid. and the background rock is lit by the sun (made it hard to get a good exposure).

does the tilt of the second one bother you? i didn't notice it until i posted it. seems like the water is falling to the right, not straight down.

the salamander was moved from a pile of sand/gravel to a more consistent background. yeah i should have bumped the apature up a bit. i've been fooling around with apature alot lately, must have just forgot on that one.

thx for the reply mike.

My apologies. Now that I look at the first one again, I can see my mistake. The moss on the rock looked to me like blurry grass, as if being blown by the wind. I guess I should look twice and post once. :blush2: The tilt doesn't bother me. The beauty of the water coming down dimishes any other minor imperfection there may be.

[Dylan8i]

Thanks western guy.

thanks for the clarification mike... i was just trying to understand what you were saying.

[paulnj]

Great images, but what's up with the private photobucket account. I wanted to see all your cool herp images!

[Loupey]

Nice images. But the tilt in #2 does bother me. Unless done intentionally/drastically, non-vertical verticals and non-horizontal horizontals drive me a little crazy. Might be the engineer in me

[Dylan8i]

Paul- HAha i have a wide variety of pics on there for various reasons... maybe i'll make a special webshots album with all my herp images... i gotta buy an external HD first though so i can put all my dvds of pics on it to sort through.

loupey- yeah they bother me to.... i was really trying to keep the log (upper right) out of the shot, and the tripod was on mossy slippy rocks, so it may have slid or i just didn't level it. plus it was taken from the side mostly (hard to tell in pic) so it might not actually be that far off.

[paulnj]

I can crack the password if I try :lol: hehehe, you're safe don't worry.

[mn shutterbug]

Congratulations on the featured photo, Dylan. Neat feeling, ain't it? If you're like me, you probably haven't even noticed it yet .

[Knight]

Congrats on the Featured Photo Dylan , well deserved

[Dylan8i]

yeah just noticed, thanks guys!

[julsoph]

Great shots! Congrats on the featured photo. I like that one a lot, but my fave of this bunch is the 2nd one.

Emily