A Few From Portumna Forest Park

CrowdedHouse · 08-05-2006 4:57pm #1

Trip to Portumna Forest Park yesterday,lovely place for a stroll.There are trails marked out through the woods.Weather was cloudy most of the time but still nice-although my plans to try Velvia (50) were put on hold.

Beech Groveaka Ladies Tea Garden

Bluebells EDIT cropped as suggested - thanks

Trail with Bluebells in distance

Forest Road

From a seat by the Lake on the Blue Walk

Noise Polluting Air boat on the lake

Fenster · 08-05-2006 5:02pm

I love #2 - it could use a crop though, to remove the dead leaves in the foreground.

CrowdedHouse · 08-05-2006 5:21pm

Thanks Fenster,all tips appreciated

More Bluebells !

Fenster · 08-05-2006 6:47pm

Looks good

Fionn · 09-05-2006 12:14am

yeah the bluebells ones are very appealing

elven · 09-05-2006 8:03am

How come you didn't use the velvia? The subtle light would have played up those greens perfectly, and the bluebells too... if it was any brighter sunshine you would have had problems with contrast I think.

That place looks pretty magical. I've yet to see a real bluebell forest for myself...

FreeAnd.. · 09-05-2006 8:44am

They are really nice forest shots, especially the contrast between the trees and the blubells. Out of interest what is veliva? A filter I'm guessing but what will it add? (or take away to be more correct).

CrowdedHouse · 09-05-2006 8:48am

elven wrote:

How come you didn't use the velvia? The subtle light would have played up those greens perfectly, and the bluebells too... if it was any brighter sunshine you would have had problems with contrast I think.

That place looks pretty magical. I've yet to see a real bluebell forest for myself...

Hi elven - I thought the day was too dull.Looking at the EXIF for the first three it was first: 1/80 f4.5;next two 1/100 f5 even my second bluebell post with the sunshine was 1/125 f5.6,these were with the ISO set at 200.

So using Velvia(50) would probably have meant a tripod/monopod(dont have a monopod yet),the film camera I had with me was a Nikon F4s which body alone weighs about 1.5kg/3 lbs so we had enough to carry.I wanted to enjoy the stroll and fresh air as much as taking pics.
I did take a few on Kodachrome 200 so we'll see how they turned out

CrowdedHouse · 09-05-2006 8:50am

FreeAnd.. wrote:

They are really nice forest shots, especially the contrast between the trees and the blubells. Out of interest what is veliva? A filter I'm guessing but what will it add? (or take away to be more correct).

Thanks

It's a Fuji slide film,lots of people rave about its vivid colours

A Few From Portumna Forest Park

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