Gnarly Old Tree

[S_J_P]

I spied this tree from the road whilst on the way somewhere and returned later in the day when the light was better to take some snaps. As I was without the normal encumbrances of family I thought I'd try out my loaned fisheye and some IR shots, what do you think?

For this first shot I was drawn by the clouds which looked as though they formed part of the tree's missing canopy.

Cloud Tree by S.J.P, on Flickr
Camera Canon EOS 60D
Exposure 0.002 sec (1/640)
Aperture f/8.0
Focal Length 22 mm
ISO Speed 200
Exposure Bias -1 EV

This second shot is using am Opteka 6.5mm (Samyang 8mm clone) fisheye with almost 170degrees field-of-view, difficult to keep the tripod legs out of the shot!

Gnarly by S.J.P, on Flickr
Camera Canon EOS 60D
Exposure 0.008 sec (1/125)
Aperture f/16
Focal Length 6.5 mm
ISO Speed 200
Exposure Bias -1 EV

This third shot's taken with an IR72 filter for a slightly different type of image

Tree IR by S.J.P, on Flickr
Camera Canon EOS 60D
Exposure 25
Aperture f/8.0
Focal Length 15 mm
ISO Speed 400
Exposure Bias +1/3 EV

[tesarver]

Re: Gnarly Old Tree

Seems similar to the other post. See my comments there.

Tom

[S_J_P]

Gnarly Old Tree

Fat-fingers-error in posting prematurely!

Thanks for the comment, there's something simple about a square-crop which I think lends itself to B&W