shell creek WY (6 bulky imgs)

[sash]

hi all,

i dunno how often i've stood on the banks of shell creek, or some other stream for that matter, thinking how fun it would be to head right in there to get some different perspectives. anyway, so on saturday i picked up a pair of $60 waders from wallyworld and headed back into the mountains.

what a blast... think i spent a good three hours wading upstream, through what on average was around waist-deep water... tripod in one hand for support, 20d in the other :rolleyes sunk the tripod, drenched the remote, lenscap, and a pack of cigarettes... ended the day with a gallon or two of ice cold water pouring down my back, pants, and into my shoes... other than that it was pretty uneventful :lol3 thankfully, the 20d stayed dry :bow

the current was pretty strong and i ended up taking all shots handheld with the 17-40.

http://www.pbase.com/alptraum/image/42272818/original.jpg

yaaaa, i know i know... but there's something about that trail in the sky :dunno i'll do another version and clone it out... just thought it was kinda interesting, lol.


http://www.pbase.com/alptraum/image/42271385/original.jpg


http://www.pbase.com/alptraum/image/42271388/original.jpg


http://www.pbase.com/alptraum/image/42271386/original.jpg


http://www.pbase.com/alptraum/image/42271389/original.jpg


http://www.pbase.com/alptraum/image/42271387/original.jpg

a few of the above are panos done using autostitch, amazing little tool :thumb honestly dunno about the processing in some of these though... after sitting in front of the puter a while, sometimes it just takes another "fresh" look at things. often enough i'll sit here the next day thinking wtf.....

anyway, it was a great, fun, risky, dumb little excursion. dumb enough to want to do it again :giggle

thanks for looking and stuff. sorry they're a bit on the bulky side... i do the majority of my web versions at 800px but some of these just didn't look right at that size.

i need to get my hands on a nd filter before heading back there.

cheers,
sash

[gus]

Great bright shots as usual sash.:thumb

[Andy]

excellent.

[MuskyDude]

Just simply awesome Sash! I like them all, very very nice! Thank you for sharing (and putting up with the ice water)!


AJ

[Phil U.]

:clap

Very nice. Definitely a different perspective. Funny story to boot. Glad that "no camera equipment was harmed during the making of these photos." :thumb

[rutt]

Great story and shots. Wonderful color.

They all look oversharpened to me. Was that on purpose? Maybe it was done with some tool other than PS USM? If you want a more natural look, look into the current DDA (http://www.dgrin.com/showthread.php?t=9547), and associated part1 (http://www.dgrin.com/showthread.php?t=9541) and part2 (http://www.dgrin.com/showthread.php?t=9739) tutorials.

[sash]

thanks, all!

rutt, i agree on the oversharpening - thanks for pointing that out. i had sent some larger versions out via email, then resized and applied another round of usm from there to arrive at these. maybe that's where it set in and i went overboard :scratch i'll check out those tutorials and will give it another try tonight... appreciate the links! :):

cheers,
sascha

[Steve Cavigliano]

Lovely Sash :thumb :thumb


I think a large print of that 3rd shot belongs on one of my walls :clap :clap

The waders were a great idea. Just glad we didn't see any underwater shots....lol Even using waders with treaded soles, I'm sure I would have fallen azz over teakettle into the water :huh Too bad about your pack of smokes :lol



Thanks for sharing,
Steve

[John Mueller]

Over sharp or not these are very nice:thumb

[Khaos]

Wow. Beautiful scenery captured well. Very nice.:thumb

[sash]

thanks mhjs, khaos... steve, knowing my luck you'll still end up getting that underwater shot, lol http://moobah.net/files/emotes/crying.gif

i reprocessed one of the images and eased up on the usm... entirely different workflow with very different results http://moobah.net/files/emotes/nerd.gifi hope i didn't end up fixing one aspect and destroying another :rolleyes

http://upload.pbase.com/alptraum/image/42311399/original.jpg

[ehughes]

Great shots, I like them all... Good Job:thumb :thumb

Ed