Snags are Cool!

[rbtree]

Snags Are Cool

And this grand old appx 7 foot diameter big leaf maple is one of the best I've seen. The link is to a 13 image slide show

http://www.flickr.com/photos/rbtree/sets/72157638956792935/show

 

[MasterBlaster]

The grubworm in me's getting HUNGRY!!!

 

[Tucker943]

Climb it!

 

[MasterBlaster]

Anybody else see that 'lil snake?

 

[rbtree]

Aww, Butch, that's a root! It was too cold for snakes and the like.....

 

[rbtree]

The hell you say!! Danged if it didn't move...

 

[Joezilla11]

Climb it!

Haha!

 

[FireFighterZero]

Are you guys going to get rid of it?

 

[Grendel]

I bet that was dusty. . .

 

[CurSedVoyce]

Gnarly!

 

[rbtree]

Are you guys going to get rid of it?

Heck, no. It will hopefully fall apart slowly, over 10-25 years. I shot those images almost two years ago. I'd be surprised if that precarious top section is still intact. Snags are great for wildlife.

 

[woodworkingboy]

Very statuesque, Roger.

 

[flushcut]

Very gnarly!

 

[gf beranek]

Great, Rog!

 

[rbtree]

Thanks, Ger.....I shot these on my recent trip south, a couple days before my brief visit with ya. I forget the name of the redwood grove, but its the one a few miles from Sebastopol. Nice trees, though a bit smaller than further north, and in a drier area, with no lush undergrowth. Mostly just some tanoak.....:

A little camera trickery
:

 

[rbtree]

This one took quite a bit of processing. Quite the extreme dynamic range to overcome!! From further north...

 

[rbtree]

I love the deep, spiral textures in this living snag:

 

[rbtree]

More interesting spiraling, and a quadruple stemmer, too boot!

Tough contrasty lighting...I could have set up the tripod, and utilized the Canon 56D Mark III's excellent and convenient in-camera HDR feature.

 

[rbtree]

Actually, I have done a fair bit of handheld HDR shooting, including this shot. Done quickly and carefully, there's little or no ghosting

 

[Bixler]

Awesome pics Rog, good on you for sharing.

 

[rbtree]

Thanks, Brian! Happy Holidays to you and yours, fo sho!!

Great videos, by the way! Love the area that you work, live and play in!

 

[MasterBlaster]

Pretty darn cool!

 

[rumination]

Some great shots there Roger.

 

[woodworkingboy]

Rog, Canon doesn't have anti-shake technology in their lenses similar to Nikon? It somehow helps to stabilize the image.

 

[rbtree]

Oh absolutely, w-wboy... all mine have "IS" except the 17-40 f/4.
If you were referring to an earlier post of mine which discussed HDR, that's different. It stands for "high dynamic range" and requires the recording of multiple images, usually three. My Canon 5D Mark III is the first SLR camera capable of processing HDR images. Alternatively, there are many software programs that achieve the effect. Photomatix is one. I only have the free version. I tried it once, and it was just OK... but it is capable of altering a single image, likely similar to what I can do with my image editing program, which works quite well, . In case you're still wondering, HDR processing takes the darkest of the bright areas in the overexposed image, and the opposite in the bright areas of an underexposed image, and combines them with the properly exposed areas of the middle image to create an image with no blown out highlights or underexposed areas.

Here's another HDR image, from a couple weeks ago, during our cold snap.