Dutch scenery (and some other first shots)

[robvonk]

http://home.wanadoo.nl/schubbe/eos/images/scaled_IMG_2500.JPG

Not the best shot but i guess you foreigners will love it :)

You can find some of my first shots with the Eos 10D here (http://home.wanadoo.nl/schubbe/eos/index.html)

Scaled and original images are provided.

I really love the camera. I own a Powershot G1 too but i hate the delay of the auto focus and the wait before you can take a new picture. And if your wife runs the marathon, you'll always be too late for the perfect shot.

Now only a nice new zoom lens :)

Rob

p.s. i don't walk on wooden shoes..

[twocoasttb]

Nice picture. Where were those windmills? I'm looking forward to taking my 10D to the Netherlands the next time my wife and I go; my wife is an Amsterdam native. Not sure she'd want to go to this location because, as a 'city girl', she thinks cows and horses are 'wild and dangerous animals'. I can't seem to convince her otherwise. She definately doesn't wear wooden shoes...

[kellylipp]

I don't know where this shot was taken, but a great site for windmills in Holland is Kinderdijk south and east of Rotterdam. Very well known so on any map. They have about 20 windmills there. I was there in May and had an excellent day. Then went back a few days later at sunset. I highly recommend a side trip there.

Kelly

[robvonk]

These windmills are located in Leidschendam. Its a small place just outside The Hague. The place is known as: "de drie molens" (the three windmills).

If you travel from The Hague to Amsterdam by car you'll see them at your right hand.

There's a sawmill located in the center of Leidschendam:

http://www.molensalamander.nl/index2.html

and

there's a manually operated lock (sluis) there too:

http://groups.msn.com/Netherlands2002/leidschendam.msnw

The "kinderdijk" is also a good place to take pictures of windmills: http://www.kinderdijk.nl/

Have fun in Holland

Rob

[Jeppe]

You should have moved closer so the fence was out of the frame. Also a -1/3 or -2/3 lesser exposure would have made the trick. That would have made a nice picture in an tourist broshure. Also, i would like to add some shrpeness.

[robvonk]

Thanks for your reaction.

There was a fence and a little stream between me and the windmills. So i couldn't get any closer without getting my feet wet. :)

I've processed the scaled image with auto level in photoshop. I've made another picture of these windmills and the colors of it are much better. The composition isn't as good as this one (imho). I'll post it when i get home. And i also saw that i forgot to upload the full image of the windmills. If you look at that you'll see that it is a lot darker. You can see that in the thumbnail too.

Any comments on the other pictures?

Rob

[robvonk]

This shot was taken one minute after the first one..

http://home.wanadoo.nl/schubbe/eos/images/scaled_IMG_2501.JPG

[Jeppe]

Yes thats a cleaner picture. But the windmills are nicer in first shot. A word of advise.. Skip the Auto-levels in PS and set your own levels. Here is what i mean (hope you dont take offence of me loaning your picture.

http://www.naturfotografen.net/10D/scaled_IMG_2501.jpg

imho this is a nicer saturation of the colors. Not perfect, but i just made some adjustments to the levels and added some USM.