[C&C] If you go down to the woods today...

Fenster

I spent a few hours our at Merlin Park woods yesterday getting mucked up, as it's a place that looks hauntingly beautiful in the mist:













The rest of the shots are on Flickr

I think everyone here in or around Galway should see the forest while it's still there, especially for the ruins of (what I think) is a famine village in the middle of it. Developers are regularly petitioning to cut the forest down and replace it with housing estates, and they're already starting to enroach from all sides with new estates and other construction.

Fenster

Fie

Borderfox

Beautiful pictures, the colour selection is excellent especially the dew drops on the leaf.

judomick

What lenses did you use for those? especially the rain drop one?

Fenster

My trusty 28-70mm lens for everything. Between me being pretty sick and the moisture, I wasn't too hot taking the time to swap lenses as I just wanted to go home to bed (Merlin Park is a very beautiful place in fog/mist and I didn't want to pass the chance up). For the macro shots, I have some diopter filters. They're a bargin basement macro option, but the colour and other optical distortions are nasty.

Morlar

That third one is my favourite of those - really nicely done.

sineadw

Third one would be my favourite too - it oozes atmosphere. I love the macro shots too though (scuttles off to google diopter filters...)

Wez

Really nice work! I love the first, third too kinda and especially the fourth.. So simple, but works really well, nice harmonic colours in there too.

Well done! I'd be pretty proud of a set like that!

Fenster

I'm pretty happy that everyone's been happy with #3 so far as it took a suprising amount of Photoshop work to clean up. Cloning, dodging, burning, fie!

Fionn

well done!!

the last one - did you try in any other f setting? i'd like to see it perhaps f16 or f22 see what the full DoF would be like!

great shots .......:)

Valentia

No 3 was my favourite when I saw it on Flickr but I was too lazy to comment I actually meant to but the ol' head.

Sumptuous selection tho'. I like them all.

elven

Mmmmm, tree-ish misty goodness. I'm glad someone got out and made use of the weather. The third and fourth ones really do it for me...

Fenster

Fionn wrote:

well done!!

the last one - did you try in any other f setting? i'd like to see it perhaps f16 or f22 see what the full DoF would be like!

great shots .......:)

I wanted a shallow DoF for the most part, for some reason that made perfect sense to me at the time.