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Nostrum
PostPosted: Wed Feb 04, 2009 1:25 pm 
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Thought I'd share the best shots of my past Weekend in the alps.

All shots with:

Canon EOS 50D
Canon EF 70-200 f/4L IS USM
f/4.0
some pretty fast shutter speeds
ISO 100
PP: Contrast/Brightness adjustments, cropping.

I'm pretty pleased with some of the shots - what do you think?

Some more shots can be found on my website (or you can use the direct link to the ski & snowboard gallery)

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Wow! I loved those, Nostrum!! Some look really professional!!

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Great shots....
Knew #8 was going down before I saw #9 :lol:

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Very good shots Nostrum, very good. :)

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Looks really decent, very good :wink: If you want some critic, I'd say the background is a bit too bright in some of those, used spot metering? Try evaluative some time, if would be nice to see the wonderful sky too behind. But awesome work, love them :D

The background like #5 looks nice, if you had that on #2, it would make itself to some ad pic definitely. :wink:

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hm yea, that's always the dilemma when shooting in the snow. I didn't use spot metering, but about +1 1/2 EV, this way, the subject is exposed more or less correctly - but the snow will be REALLY white and the sky will be blown out obviously.

It's still a LOT better than on an overcast day, where the snow will be just plain white. the sun at least adds some shade and structure, which is great.

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The subject is very sharp and well exposured, it is one helluva mess to get the sky in also, maybe photoshop.. :roll:

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Pikkuroope wrote:
The subject is very sharp and well exposured, it is one helluva mess to get the sky in also, maybe photoshop.. :roll:


You would have to use HDR to get the sky exposed correctly, but that's impractical, if not impossible in this situation.

A graduated filter might have done the job for the sky, but you can't get the snow correctly...

But meh, I think the lighting is gorgeous. No need for a filter in any way :)

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Citruspers wrote:
Pikkuroope wrote:
The subject is very sharp and well exposured, it is one helluva mess to get the sky in also, maybe photoshop.. :roll:


You would have to use HDR to get the sky exposed correctly, but that's impractical, if not impossible in this situation.

A graduated filter might have done the job for the sky, but you can't get the snow correctly...

But meh, I think the lighting is gorgeous. No need for a filter in any way :)

Gorgeous photos, yep :) You can always try one-photo-HDR.. :roll:

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