Hi Quality Images from a Rebel

[Malok]

My focus is landscape photography of Rocky Mountain National Park in Colorado. I try to get into the park for a few hours each morning between 4am and 8am. Slowly I am building up a substantial portfolio and every week I am adding new images to my site.

I am now selling my work in several stores and galleries in the region. The camera I use is a simple Drebel. I would love to go to large format, but just can't afford the film and developing costs.

Your comments and suggestions would be most welcome. Come on in and let me know what you think! Also, let me know you stopped in, by signing my guestbook.

Morning Light Photography: http://morninglight.us

http://morninglight.us/cnp/forum/august28.jpg

[evidence tech]

Excellant picture...is this taken with a rebel???

[Malok]

Yes, this was taken with a Digital Rebel. If you visit my site, almost all my photos were taken with the Rebel. It is a good little camera for smaller images and prints.

[mdude85]

I'm not quite sure who came up with this idea that the Rebel doesn't take good pictures. First off, with some small functionalities neglected, the optics of the Rebel are very similar to the optics of the 10D and of the D60. Second, the quality of your images is largely determined by the quality of the lens. Put a nice 24-70L on a Rebel and it will produce better shots, much better, than a 10D with a 28-90.

[Penguin_101_1]

Now your playing mean by posting all of these pics and " I try to get into the park for a few hours each morning between 4am and 8am.". I have to go across the great boring plains to get there. Great pics! :wink:

[Penguin_101_1]

Have you read John Fielder's Photographing the Landscape? A lot of your stuff is like his.

[Tshoe]

Great shot! What lens did you use?

[Malok]

Thanks for the encouragement! Perhaps you guys could leave some comments in the guestbook on my website.

Tshoe, most of my images are taken with the 18-55 kit lens. It generally does a good job, but you need to do your part to remove any vibration when taking the photo in order to see what it is really capable of.

[blinking8s]

what steps do you take to eleminate the vibration? I have trouble with my 300d and landscape photography, you seem to have pulled it off very well. Can we see a larger version and exif data? I am getting very fond of closing my apature as much as possible, detail in pictures can make a huge difference

[Malok]

Blinking8s, to deal with vibration I firstly use a very sturdy tripod, secondly I use a timer so that my finger doesn't move the camera when I push the button and thirdly I am using mirror lockup using the June 16 hack. These combine to provide a fairly stable image.

Volcano Force, thanks for the offer to use my photos in your screen saver. I unfortunately won't make them available for this. I am making my own screen saver of Rocky Mountain National Park and am already selling my work in a number of places. If you would like to purchase the right to use some of them in your screen saver, send me an e-mail and we can discuss it.

Malok

[malla1962]

My focus is landscape photography of Rocky Mountain National Park in Colorado. I try to get into the park for a few hours each morning between 4am and 8am. Slowly I am building up a substantial portfolio and every week I am adding new images to my site.

I am now selling my work in several stores and galleries in the region. The camera I use is a simple Drebel. I would love to go to large format, but just can't afford the film and developing costs.

Your comments and suggestions would be most welcome. Come on in and let me know what you think! Also, let me know you stopped in, by signing my guestbook.

Morning Light Photography: http://morninglight.us

http://morninglight.us/cnp/forum/august28.jpggreat pics mate,does the hack give any problems :)

[Malok]

No problems at all with the hack so far, but the only extra option I use on it is the mirror lock-up. I don't know how well the other features work as I really don't need them.

Malok

[Malok]

Where's the delete button?

[Malok]

I am in the process of putting together a little portfolio of my best RMNP photos from the last couple of months and am wondering if some of you might be willing to give me a hand.

I've created a little website with about 50 photos and would love it if you could help by letting me know which three of these are your favorite and perhaps why. I am looking for the best quality photos, not necessarily ones of your favorite places. Be sure you look through most of them. You need to push the arrow to the right of the small photos to scroll through the list.

http://morninglight.us/choose/

Thanks in advance for your help!!!

Malok

[davepop]

They are all good. Suppose that doesn't help.

My favorites are all the ones with moving water blurred really well. I tried to do this recently and couldn't get enough blur. It was a bright day and I couldn't get a long enough exposure.

[josh51699]

favorites are......dum roll

dream lake...i just love the foreground
dream stream....again foreground and smooth water
and bear yellow..yet again i like the foreground

great shots!

[Malok]

Here's another one from the same place in the autumn. I'm trying to have photos of Rocky Mountain National Park throughout the year. I'm almost done! Come to my site and let me know what you think.

http://morninglight.us/cnp/forum/gold%20reflection.jpg

[blinking8s]

Malok do you have instant messenger of any type? Im slowly starting to gain interest in the type of photography you are succeeding in...id love to caht with you some about it

[Malok]

Sorry, I'm alergic to IM and telephones. I do e-mail though. Feel free to write and I'll do my best to respond. I'm just a beginner myself though. I've only been at it seriously for about 18 months. I just spend time looking at landscape books and developing an eye by admiring the work of others. The rest is pretty easy.

Malok

[blinking8s]

thats cool...i think my love for landscape photography and nature developed way before i got a camera...i hike from time to time and its great...

you have some pretty good photos though man...nice work

[Sam North]

Quality images.

I'm so impressed by your shots and the fact that you're bursting bubbles about pro gear dependance, that I've given you a mention on my site (not that that's anything to write home about!).

Your work will encourage discerning amateurs, perhaps on a budget, to work with what they can afford, all the way from digital and film cameras and lenses to their choice of image-editing software - no, you don't actually need Photoshop.

Sam

[Malok]

Thanks Sam for the encouragement. I actually have sold a number of images and even have one in a gallery right now that were taken with an even simpler point and shoot digital. As you say on your site, "Great meal! What pots did you use?". If people are dedicated to learning the art of photography they can push their equipment to the limit and take some really good photos. I still wish though that I could shoot with larger format as I am can't get the same detail out of my photos that some of the big boys do. However, the equipment wouldn't do me any good if I didn't first learn to shoot with what I have.

Any chance of hyperlinking my name in your article to my website? You can have it open in a new window so they don't loose their place on your site.

[Sam North]

Yes, I believe the detail captured by the large format digital backs is mind-blowing. If my memory serves me right, each channel is exposed separately to produce fantastic, sharp images. I would love a crack at it myself, but my wife would shoot me.

No problem about the link. Have it at foot of page because rich text occasionally causes difficulties in some browsers.

:)


Sam

PS Glad you added this page: http://www.morninglight.us/locations/seasons.htm

[Landis]

This being my first post on this forum, i wanted to tell you how great your work is. Congratulations.
When I had my Canon D60, which is essentially the same camera as what you have, I found that will careful upsizing of the files, I could get excellent prints up to 15x21". That camera with good lenses will do great work, and you certainly know where to point it.

[Bushman]

Malok:

Can you tell me about mirror lock up? I know how it works ina film camera, but didn't know my Rebel could do it. thanks!

Bushman

[Bushman]

Malok:

Can you tell me about mirror lock up? I know how it works ina film camera, but didn't know my Rebel could do it. thanks!

Bushman

[DieselGirl]

I am not a big fan of landscape photography but after seeing your photos, I've changed my mind! Those shots are beautiful! Makes me wish I was at those places.

You've made me into a landscape fan now.

:)