Coastal Colors

[NCBobD]

I resisted a visit to my beloved horses and paddled part of the Brice's Creek Canoe trail near New Bern Sunday morning. There's a nice mix of decidious and evergreen trees along the creek and I had hopes of photographing some autumn colors. Not as spectacular as what's happening inland I'm sure but it gave me a little "fix." Shots were taken with a 40D and either a Tokina 12-24mm f/4.0, or the Sigma 50-500mm.



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[NCBobD]

A couple more.



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[lakejessup]

Wow nice to see the colors. Everything down here is still green. Love the reflection in the water

[artsnimages]

Like em' Bob! Perhaps mute them a touch as the leaves look really "busy"....I don't mean too sharp, but they could be, but what i would do is isolate the leaves with a soft-edge mask. (all of them) and just reduce the contrast a bit.......Not much, just a "tinkle to kill the twinkle) A lot of this is caused by the glass you shoot with or even stopping down too much... Zooms seem to be notorious for these contrast problems, especially the non "L" series (well, some of the "L" series too) or misc other vendor glass... But they are improving by leaps and bounds. Wanna blow your socks off...Go rent a Zeiss manual focus W/A for Canon or Nikon and then compare......

Jim

[MShartle]

Nice series. I like the first one the best. Looks like in a week or two it will be better.

Some areas around me are looking good and other not so good, I thought it would be better this year with all the rain we had but dosen't seem to be.

[jckegley]

I like the landscape orientation images the best (first and last). I think the reflections in those two look better than the two portrait orientation shots. Strictly a personal perspective.