Soft Shelled Turtle
“What are you looking at?” – Alexander River, Israel – Vladimir Popov/Uhaiun – Featured Photographer
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Charlie’s Super Fantastic Photo Tip of the Day: In nature photography, skip the flash whenever possible and use natural lighting.
Have you ever seen anything like this? I have seen a few different soft shelled turtle species, but never this close. It looks like something that would battle Godzilla. Well thanks to the conservation efforts of the locals along the Alexander River you can still see these crazy turtles today. Please read Uhaium’s story below then head on over to his huge portfolio at http://500px.com/Uhaiun for more interesting images.
Enter Uhaium:
This kind of soft-shelled turtles is found in Alexander River, Israel. These unusual and nearly extinguished animals attract many visitors come to the nature reserve. People and their children throw into the water lettuce and large pieces of bread, but the turtles generally stay indifferent. Actually, for a chicken, the turtles are ready to get out of the water and even to come to grips with the local wild cats. Although the river was once polluted and lost lots of its water animals and vegetation, the population of turtles was saved by a preservation effort. To enable the thriving of younger generation of turtles, people collect the turtle eggs, incubate them in a superficial environment and after the youngsters grow, bring
them back into the water.
Camera: Nikon D80
Lens: Nikkor 10.5mm f2.8
shutter speed: 1/800
Aperture: f4
ISO: 100
Tamanawas Falls
“Guardian Spirit” – Mt. Hood National Forest, Parkdale, OR – Tula Top – Featured Photographer
Charlie’s Super Fantastic Photo Tip of the Day: Check your camera settings when you take your camera out of the bag. Several times I have pulled my camera out of my bag and in a rush for the shot realized that my ISO was way off for the shoot. So I now try to set the camera settings before I compose any images.
I just got back from Yellowstone and have seen a lot of waterfalls. This image reminds me of the great time I had there and gives me a ton of incentive to explore more waterfalls throughout the west. This image feels so intimate that I get the feeling we are peering into a secret garden. A really large garden I might add. It also is the first time anyone has ever used the word “lederhosen” in one of our post. Please read the great story below and then travel to one or all of Tula’s portfolios below and find many more “secret garden” type images.
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Enter Tula:
As the trail meanders through a massive rockslide and rounds a bend in the gorge, the constant growl of Cold Spring Creek crescendos to a thundering roar as 100-foot-tall Tamanawas Falls comes into glorious view. Tamanawas is the Chinook term for friendly or guardian spirit, the cataract ostensibly taking its name for its commanding yet calming presence on Mt. Hood’s eastern flank.
As soon as I laid eyes on the majestic falls and saw the towering plumes of spray produced by the swirling winds in the amphitheater, I resigned myself to a second unsuccessful photographic outting in as many days (at Burnt Lake the day prior)—there was just no getting close enough for an intimate portrait without drenching lens and lederhosen* before you could ever hope to get a shot off. Besides which, sunlight was spotlighting the top of the falls and left everything else in deep shadow, making an attempt at even an HDR composite a dicey proposition at best. This was my second visit to the falls, and I felt like I had some unfinished business, but there was significantly less spray on that day that allowed for a much closer approach and much more intimate studies that I was hoping to have another go at. Disappointing, to say the least.
After a time, however, and just as we were set to embark for the trailhead after a short break, the sun moved on from zenith and began to illuminate the mist in radiant shafts of light as it filtered through the evergreens rimming the amphitheater’s cliff. I saw what was developing and waited until the falls was completely in shade, and this was our reward for lollygagging.
* No, I wasn’t wearing nor have I ever worn lederhosen, but I needed something starting with L for the alliteration. My apologies for the deception.
- Canon 5DII · 24-70mm f/2.8L · 70mm · CPL · stacked 2- and 3-stop NDs
- 60mm · f/16 · 8s · ISO 50
Golden Gate Bridge
“Under and Alone” – San Francisco, CA – Javier Acosta – Featured Photographer
Charlie’s Super Fantastic Photo Tip of the Day: Photograph the same place at different times of the day under different conditions.
Happy 75th Anniversary Golden Gate Bridge! There is no better way to celebrate here at http://photobotos.com/ than with this striking image. No wonder it won American Photo Magazine, 2011 Landscape Image of the Year! The story below shows that dedication is the key to successful images. Spectacular images are a product of 90% knowing your subject and about 10% luck. I know you want more so head on over to any of Javier’s portfolios and continue to celebrate the Anniversary of the Golden Gate Bridge.
http://javieracostaphotography.com/index.html
http://500px.com/JaveFoto
http://www.flickr.com/photos/19224593@N04/
https://plus.google.com/u/0/100512798644537797723/posts
Enter Javier:
About three years ago, I saw an image of the fog rolling over the Golden Gate Bridge. Ever since then, I was determined not only to capture this amazing scene but to witness it for myself. For three years, I monitored the weather and traveled to the Golden Gate Bridge in a desperate attempt to capture this beautiful scene that only seems to occur a few times a year. Most of the time, I dealt with numerous obstacles like: the fog was either too thick or too thin; I missed the sunrise or sunset due to commuter traffic; there were heavy winds; there were road closures; there were cruise ships and cargo ships in the shot; and everything else you can think of. Despite these obstacles, I would scout out compositions so when the conditions were right he would be ready.
In January 2011, the fog finally came! I was not going to miss this epic shot. So, I took every opportunity to drive to San Francisco, which meant five sunrises in a row. I captured the scene in every imaginable way. I probably drove to the Golden Gate Bridge approximately 20-30 times in three years.
“Alice” – Lempster, NH – Colleen Dubois – Featured Photographer
Charlie’s Super Fantastic Photo Tip of the Day: Photograph an everyday object from a different perspective.
This is great example of an image that is sitting in front of each and every one of us right now, but rarely do we take the time to look for it. If any of you have images of ordinary objects feel free to post them in the comments section and I will be sure to be one of many to take a look. In the meantime head on over to www.cduboisphotography.com to view more of her great work.
Enter Colleen:
Well, this was taken in August In Lempster, NH sitting on the dock of my mom’s camp on Long Pond. I took the opportunity to read a book, and had my camera in my lap. I stopped and looked up and the clouds seemed to be in the right place and I wanted to capture that time. I had my Canon EF 17-85, set on 17mm, ISO at 1600 because I wanted to catch the grain in the book as best as I could…so you can almost feel the pages. F20 and Shutter 1/800. And I guess the rest was luck. I named it ‘Alice’ because I was reading ‘ALICE I HAVE BEEN’, which is the story of the girl that ‘Alice in Wonderland’ was written about.
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Baby Penguins
“Why am I Here” – South Georgia Island, Antarctica – Steve Shuey – Featured Photographer
Charlie’s Super Fantastic Photo Tip of the Day: Give the viewer’s eye a place to focus. It doesn’t have to be the center of the image. In fact, it is best if it isn’t. Today’s photo is a great example.
Help! http://photobotos.com has been overrun with penguins. We have had three penguin related post in the past month. I hope you are not tired of them. At least our Mom is happy. It is her favorite animal. I promise no more penguins for a while. However I am sure you will agree this is a great photo. Please read Steve’s excellent story below and the check out his equally excellent portfolio at http://500px.com/SteveShuey.
Enter Steve:
I took this photo at Gold Harbor on South Georgia Island (part of Antarctica) while on an expedition that spent 8 days at South Georgia Island and 4 days in the Falkland Islands. It was the trip of a lifetime and the best trip I’ve been on. Gold Harbor is famous for it’s beauty because mountains with hanging glaciers that come almost down to the beach. But it is most famous for the tremendous population of Penguins. During peak season there are upwards of 100,000 penguins, mostly Gentoo and King. During the time I was there, there were many thousands of “Oakum Boys”, which is what the King Penguin chicks are known as. The chicks tend to huddle together in groups called a Creche. Periodically an adult Penguin would walk through the group. I stopped near a creche of chicks and waited, hoping for that one adult to decide to walk through. After only a few minutes of waiting, one obliged and I was able to fire off a few shots before he got through to the other side. It really is quite a sight to see that many penguins around. It’s noisy as can be but the worst part is probably the smell. That many penguins make a lot of stink. One does get used to it after a while. The other cool sight at Gold Harbor is the massive Southern Elephant seals that are there. The males can get to 4,000 pounds and the size of a small SUV. You have to watch out for them as they are there to get the girl and when two males want the girl there can be trouble. You don’t want to be near a fight. I got in the way of a male moving faster than I thought and ended up dumping my whole camera bag on the sandy beach trying to get out of the way. The lesson learned was always zip up the bag when putting it down. I took the “Why Am I Here” photo with a Canon 5D using a 200mm F2.8 lens with a 1.4x teleconvertor. The iso was 125 and shutter speed was 1/1000th of a second at F4.
“Forgotten” – Coast of Portugal – Nelson Bolinhas – Featured Photographer
Charlie’s Super Fantastic Photo Tip of the Day: Create a “Moody” image. It doesn’t matter if it is happy, surprise, dark and gloomy, etc. Just let viewer feel an emotion and they will be hooked.
Do you know those weird dreams where nothing ever seems to make sense? Well this could be the background for one of those dreams. Like all of a sudden a snake wearing a sweater vest could ice skate down the bridge with a punch bowl full of over ripe figs and your response would be ”I expected that.” If you don’t follow me then let’s just say the mood I feel is eerily surreal when I look at this image. How about you?
For some more outstanding and moody images please ice skate on over to Nelson’s website at www.nelsonbolinhas.freeiz.com. You won’t be disappointed. By the way, I also love the image on his home page.
Enter Nelson:
This was a day dedicated to the most experience between a Canon 50D and Canon7D, in the company of a good friend. Before sunrise we were to see that these experiments could not be made because the sky was very dark. There were many clouds and rain was plentiful.
But when the sun began to appear on the horizon everything changed for the better, and that was when we left under the bridge shot and managed to make some great images like this one.
Camera settings:
Canon: 50D
Sigma: 10-20
ISO: 100
Shutter Speed: 160 seconds
Aperture: F9
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“Portal” – Fort Lauderdale, FL – Cemham Biricik – Featured Photographer
Charlie’s Super Fantastic Photo Tip of the Day: Change the viewer’s perspective. Check out the image for the explanation.
Cemhan is very clever. Simply by naming the image “Portal” he changes the image perspective completely. It suggests the complete opposite of what is actually happening in the image. If you have not guessed it already, you will have to read below where the magician gives up his secret. After reading his story, check out his spectacular images at www.biricikmedia.com. He has some amazing fashion images.
You can also follow Cemhan and his wife Isabel on Twitter “@cemhanbiricik” “@isabelbiricik” and Facebook
http://www.facebook.com/public/Biricik-Mediagroup
Enter Cemhan:
As for the image, my wife, Isabel, and I were brainstorming new shoot ideas and decided to do a series on people falling into various settings. This is the first in the series. Portal is one of 3 images in this shoot. Portal shows the arrival and it is followed by whiplash and Resonance. Portal, was a shot of my wife falling back into our pool while I shot from above on the top step of a 10 foot ladder. While we did a number of takes and she was sore from our efforts, this was the 4th image shot on the very first jump. The image is not manipulated. My next adventure will be chasing down and photographing violent storms in “Hurricane Alley” . You can find more details at http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/581259651/chasing-the-storm-an-artistic-portrayal-of-hurrica
Camera Settings:
Camera: Canon 7D
ISO: 100
Shutter Speed: 1/5000
Lens: 16-35 2.8L
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Rio at Sunset
“Rio at Sunset” – Rio de Janeiro, Brazil – Raymond Choo – Featured Photographer
Charlie’s Super Fantastic Photo Tip #2: In travel photography, give the viewer a sense of how you arrived at your location. It allows them to feel that they are travelling with you.
Ray probably has a shot of the city from another angle at sunset. That image is probably just as beautiful (if not more) than the one shown here. However, I doubt it would have been as interesting. Why? You see the cable car heading up the mountain in the foreground and especially the cables leading to the top of Sugarloaf. You can see how Ray was experiencing the trip as a participant and not just a sideline guy. The photo makes me think about the few time I have been on a cable car and the really cool places they went. Not only does it make me want to follow in his footsteps in Rio, but it also reminds me I need to try the Aerial Tram in Palm Springs, CA.
Also if you love this image you are in good company it was published in National Geographic Traveler magazine http://raymondychoo.zenfolio.com/p588018572/h2550e211#h2550e211
To see more of Raymond’s spectacular work check out his portfolios below:
http://raymondychoo.zenfolio.com/
http://500px.com/RaymondYChoo
Enter Raymond:
We visited Sugarloaf Mountain (Pao de Acucar); famous for its fantastic view of Rio de Janeiro with its surrounding beach resorts like Copacabana and Ipanema. We timed the visit to enjoy the sunset followed by the illumination of city lights.
In this image, I wanted to capture the beautiful colors and cloud patterns in the sky, along with side-lighting from the sunset. The inclusion of the incoming cable car helped to provide a more dynamic feel and a sense of place. Along with a tripod, I used a 3-stop graduated ND filter to balance the strong contrast in the sky and foreground areas.
Exposure details
Camera: Canon 5D
Lens: 24-105 f/4L IS lens at 35mm
Shutter Speed:1/45s
F-Stop: f/4.5
ISO: 50
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Harvest Mouse
“The Secret Keeper” – Surrey, UK – Matt Binstead – Featured Photographer
Charlie’s Super Fantastic Photo Tip of the Day: Great opportunities are everywhere. Try your own “backyard” first for interesting images.
Matt didn’t have to travel around the world to get this really cute harvest mouse image. He just needed to go to work. http://www.britishwildlifecentre.co.uk. Read below to find out how he set up this great image then check out his portfolio HERE. And blog HERE.
Enter Matt:
I am privileged to live and work at the British Wildlife Centre in Surrey, UK. We are home to over 40 species of British wild animals and work hard to educate the public about our, often overlooked, wildlife as well as play an active role in the conservation of British animals. http://www.britishwildlifecentre.co.uk
Most of my photography is of the animals where I work, and so in a captive environment. When taking captive photos I try to capture something different, something that would be very difficult if not impossible to take in the wild.
The harvest mouse is one of the smallest mammals in Britain, but is full of character. The Centre needed a simple portrait shot so I set this up by using two bits of corn in a plant pot. I knew that if they were close enough together the mouse would use them like stilts to climb up. I got the photo I was after, but then just before I packed up the mouse settled down enough to just sit there and start having a wash… It is these moments which can turn a good photo into a unique one, and so I snapped away. He was very fast with his paws but I was lucky enough to capture the image above. The mouse is washing, but I think it looks like he has a big secret to keep and is trying hard to hold his mouth shut so he doesn’t spill it. It is still one of my favorite photos I have ever taken.
Camera Settings:
Camera Nikon D300s
Lens Nikon 70-200VRII
ISO 200
Exp -1/3
Aperture f/5.6
Shutter 1/160
