Lake Cachuma Early Morning

I'm pretty pleased with how this photo turned out. It almost looks like a tone-mapped HDR image, but it's not. I was able to uncover all these gold tones and the contrast in the clouds with Photoshop.

Here are other photos I took at Lake Cachuma.

Lake Cachuma California #1

This is an HDR (High Dynamic Range) photograph of Lake Cachuma in California. I really like the clouds; so much drama!

Tonal Mapped Landscape Lake Cachuma

I used Photomatix to create this "tonal mapped" landscape of Lake Cachuma. This was the first time I used Photomatix which I read about it on Flickr.

Camera settings for original photograph:
Camera: Canon EOS 20D
Exposure: 0.033 sec (1/30)
Aperture: f/20
Focal Length: 18 mm
ISO Speed: 200

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Across Lake Cachuma 2

Here's my second version of this photo taken across Lake Cachuma.


Camera: Canon EOS 20D
Exposure: 0.006 sec (1/160)
Aperture: f/11
Focal Length: 160 mm
ISO Speed: 200

Across Lake Cachuma

The light for this photo was very low and dull so I had to play with the image to give it a lift. Since there was a lot of noise in the photo, I decided to try and make it appear like an old-fashioned toned photo and also tried to make something of the darkness of the scene.

The photo is taken across Lake Cachuma, California, from the Lake Cachuma Recreational Reserve.


Camera: Canon EOS 20D
Exposure: 0.006 sec (1/160)
Aperture: f/11
Focal Length: 160 mm
ISO Speed: 200

Red-Tailed Hawk II

Here's a second shot of this red-tailed hawk at Lake Cachuma. Actually when I saw him land on the pole I got a good view of the feathers on the underside of his tail, and they really were red!

Camera: Canon EOS 20D
Exposure: 0.003 sec (1/400)
Aperture: f/11
Focal Length: 300 mm
ISO Speed: 200

Red-Tailed Hawk I

A group of us went up to Lake Cachuma which is about 20 miles out of Santa Barbara this past weekend. We went in a 32-foot motor home that some friends are currently renting. What a great time we had. This red-tailed hawk happened to land on a high-voltage power pole right by our site and luckily I happened to see him. He was very used to people it would seem as he wasn't bothered at all by me walking around the pole taking his photo. What a high voltage bird!

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Camera: Canon EOS 20D
Exposure: 0.001 sec (1/1600)
Aperture: f/5.6
Focal Length: 225 mm
ISO Speed: 200