Went for a walk.

[Hodgy]

took a walk down the road from our cottage.

Canon 10D
70-200 F2.8

burned edges

[natatbeach]

really sick

(mumbling under my breath---"i walk down the street and go fro a stroll and all I get are bug bites" hmpf)

I mean nice work....



as usual ;)

[shutterman]

sheesh, you mean you are good at taking these shots too? I love it!

[Hodgy]

When I first picked up a camera all I took shots of was nature and landscapes. I still love doing them, but im more selective now. I remember the first few years, I shot everything. Now when I go for a walk, I see alot, but it's like "have one of those", or "took something just like that before". Kinda sucks, but it also makes me look for different things.

[adina]

Nice colors.

Do you treat this kind of thing the same as you would your portraits/wedding stuff? It has the same kind of Hodgy-feel, I was curious if you have a different technique for something like this.

adina

[Hodgy]

Same technique. In fact, all photography should be treated the same. Exposure, COMPOSITION (I find is the most important) and subject.

All I did for this was burn down the outer edges, and this brings out my subject more (the insect)

I used a large aperature, so that the background would go completely out of focus.

The last thing I do is add a border and matte around my image (this in turn, finishes the image) as it just brings it one level up than just a straight image.

[paulnj]

When I first picked up a camera all I took shots of was nature and landscapes. I still love doing them, but im more selective now. I remember the first few years, I shot everything. Now when I go for a walk, I see alot, but it's like "have one of those", or "took something just like that before". Kinda sucks, but it also makes me look for different things.

boy do I know what you mean!

but, nature imagery is for fun right? can you really walk past a photogenic sceen and not shoot it? It's digital after all

[Hodgy]

Yes I could. It would realllllllllllllllly have to jump out at me!

[paulnj]

Fair enough But to me nature imagery is like images of ones children...... can you ever have enough???

But recently I will fill a 1G card and keep 5 frames.... delete the repetative crap that I enjoyed shooting ;)

[FREELANCE2004]

boy ,if that rascal would of crawled his lil butt a lil bit higher on the flower,he would of been center stage,broadside,to see his lil wing colors.i like.