chris_venhaus

This is a submerged maple leaf with background maples reflected in

the water. Taken on a clear day with beautiful bright blue sky, further

enhanced with use of a circular polarizer. Would love to hear other's

thoughts on this. Please view the larger image before commenting,

please.

I haven't hit the dunes in DV for a while, so decided to try them

again, and was able to catch this scene. Also works well in B&W, but

decided to post in color...

I took this image in 2008, and wasn't able to process it correctly at

the time. Now, I was able to process the RAW file twice and get

much more detail out of the pyramid shaped monolith, as well as

more cloud detail. This is one of my favorite shots in my portfolio,

and a 'once in a lifetime' shot as this this storm was ripping through

so fast that I had seconds to set up and wait for this calm 'eye' in the

clouds to travel over the 'monolith'. Taken with a 5D and 24mm F1.4

(mk 1).

Taken with my 5D mkII at 17mm and stitched. This is my first attempt

at a stitched comp (4 horizontal frames), and I'm fairly happy with it. The

sky looked like it was going to go "over the top" with the reds- but this

was the peak.

Taken last Friday with my 5D mkII. Please view in a dark room to see

full effect.

Taken last year with my Canon 5D mkII and Zeiss Makro-Planar 100mm

f2.8

Please open larger image before critiquing. I like this shot because it

has an otherworldly feel to it. Just need a ringed planet in the sky, and

some critters crawling about ;-)

Wow. I just realized this image was selected for POTW. I'm honored by its selection, as well as all of your comments. Thank you. This "prism" effect was from light beams filtered through some trees, and into the waterfall's mist. The shadows between the beams are simply shade from the trees' branches. Here are two more images taken during this same session that have been minimally processed with ACR. My PS skills are subpar, and I'm certain these images could be made much better by someone more proficent in PS. Again, thank you all for your comments and constructive criticism.
http://www.vhaudio.com/images/waterfall2.jpg
http://www.vhaudio.com/images/waterfall3.jpg

Taken while the full moon was rising behind me. This is a single

exposure- no filters were used. Just some simple post in CS5

I took this image in 2004 with a Canon 10D. At the time, it was a bit

noisy and I never processed it. Witht he advent of great noise removal

software, I revisted this image, and it cleaned-up very well. This evening

was magical, with coyotes howling int he background while I watched

this spectacular display of Northern Lights.

Taken back in 2006. This didn't work as well in color, but I thought it

made the conversion to B&W well. I might crop just a nip more off the

right side. Should print well.

Taken last year in CA with my 5D mkII and 35-70 Zeiss lens. Didn't

work well in color, but has a surreal quality in mono, I think.

This is one exposure- no photoshop blending or trickery.

Taken last night wth my 5D mkII. Tweaked color temp a bit warmer than

camera default. Also ran through Noiseware.

I took this image with an A2E and Fuji Superia film back in 2001. The

resultant scanned image was a bit grainy. I since reworked with

Noiseware at the default "night setting". It cleaned-up amazingly well, I

think. Please open larger version before critiquing.

Taken 7-7-2001 with my Canon A2E and Canon 50mm lens. This was,

by far the most photogenic storm I've ever witnessed. Unfortunately,

Murphy's Law kicked in shortly after I took this shot and my battery

went dead. Although I had an extra "new" battery in my pack- it was

also dead. By the time I was able to make it to a store to get a new

battery, the storm matured and it was full-out downpours. I haven't seen

a better storm since. Taken with Fuji Provia 400F and was a bit grainy

when scanned, but I ran through Noiseware last night and liked the

result.

I took this image back in 2001 with my Canon A2E and Fuji Superia

Extra film. Now that denoise technology has become much better, I

decided to rework this scan from my Nikon 4000ED scanner. Much

better than the original process. Used Noiseware to reduce the film

grain.

Taken in 2004 with a Canon 10D. Noise removal software has become

so good, that I decided to revist some older digital SLR images to see

what the newest noise removal software could do. For this image, I used

Noiseware.

Taken yesterday near Death Valley, with my 5D mkII and new Canon 70-

200 f2.8L mkII,