My favorite Flavour

[dooda]

Is Arbutus. I took this picture recently and have fallen in love with it. There's something about a really nice arbutus tree. This one in particular, I keep going back to take it's picture. It's amazing how many different takes you can get of one object. The top picture suffers from mysterious banding, even after I darkened the sky, you can still see the bands running horizontal.

[dooda]

So, ummm, I did think that the top most picture was worth a look... did no one see this?

[Greg S]

Dave #1 is stunning, I would be interested in the exif data and what post processing you may have done.

Also like #4

Greg

[leek]

Sorry Dave, I did see it and meant to comment, but then got distracted trying to find out what Arbutus was

#1 is a beautiful image and should be hanging on your wall...

[dooda]

Yayy! Comments.

The top most picture was

97 seconds
F7.1
ISO 200
13mm

I shined it with a flashlight as well from an angle, which gives the tree a little texture, as well as keeps the background dark from stray light.

I find that Nikon doesn't give really warm tones really well, even with WB adjustments, so I added an 81 warm filter at about 20%. I don't want the tones too warm, but I find the Nikon colouring a little bit purply blue for my tasts somehow.

Thanks for the comments guys.

[CraigVTR]

A torch is a useful little object to have in your kit. Makes the tree look very interesting.

All great shots.

Craig

[Oneputt]

Dooda number one is outstanding, love it, and the banding is very hard to see even after you pointed it out. Lovely image.

[macka]

Love the way you've lit up the tree in the first shot. Very nice.

[sirhc55]

Dave - I actually believe #2 is the outstanding shot but would clone out the leaves top right.

How long were the two people standing on the beach

[dooda]

That was me and another fellow, and we were down there for about 4 minutes before I came back up and clicked shut. It was kind of weird, the park was already closed, and there's generally no one there, it's a 2 kilometre or so walk to get here in Rainforest, so when I arrived I was surprised to see someone already there. I was a tad nervous, but approached him and he was quite likeable and we had a good chat. I was sort of pleased to see that we made it in the picture.

My problem with the second is the moonlight streaming into the top center. I actually tried to clone it out, but it's way too hard with the subtle tones of the sky, and all the branches in the way, so I didn't work on it too too hard. I'd like to go back and take it one more time, as well as test out some other ideas I had.

[xerubus]

that first one is an absolute cracker!! nicely done.

cheers

[wendellt]

the first one and last are so surreal i feel like i need to wake up from this sublime dream
you are amazing!!

[LostDingo]

good lighting with the first......keep going back and continue to share!

[ABG]

The first photo is just sublime Dave. The rest are simply great. I always love looking at your work and hope one day to produce results nearly as good as these.

[marcotrov]

Lovely lighting and composition in the first one Dave.
cheers
marco