Del Norte

I went to the Redwoods by the Oregon border five days ago. It had recently rained and knocked down most of the rhodie blossoms. It looked like there had been quite a few at Damnation Trail, but by the time I got there they were on the ground. The weather didn't cooperate: mostly sunny and bright, no fog. I did manage to get this obligatory redwood shot at the Stout Grove:

Canon 5d Mark 2
Zeiss 18mm Distagon lens
1/15 sec
f 9.5
ISO 400

This was taken up the coast, north of Brookings.

Canon 5d Mark 2
Canon 24-70mm f/2.8 L II
2.0 sec
f/22
Singh-Ray variable neutral density filter

Comments welcome.

Nice images, Tony. I really like the band of blue against the greys in the ocean image. Isn't Stout Grove a great place? I love all the ferns down below.

Looks great Tony for tough conditions. Great colors in the redwood shot. Sorry, but the Ocean shot seems a bit bland for my tastes.

Tony,

I like the redwood shot. I'm surprised at how even the light is. If I take this shot, the central sky would be blown out white. Did you Photoshop this to even out the exposure?

The original capture was underexposed, even so in ACR I slid the Highlights slider all the way to the left and the Shadows slider to the right until the trees were the right exposure. Then in Photoshop I used the magic wand tool (with contiguous unchecked) to choose the sky and then used Image/Adjustments/Highlights and Shadows to further darken the sky. And it was approaching dusk.

Thanks Tony,

It is great to learn about your technique.