NZ continued

I have been working on a lot of pictures from New Zealand still, I'll be moving on to something new next week. Here are the one's I've gotten edited and such. Flickr was working on the school computers the other day and I was looking through panorama photos. (http://www.flickr.com/search/?q=panorama) I noticed that a good portion of them are edited to HDR so I've been messing around with the HDR effect preset that I downloaded to lightroom, and I've gotten some pretty sweet results. One thing that I'm bumming about is the fact that I barely took any portraits, besides at the wedding. I really wish I had gotten more into that while I was there. I didn't take my camera everywhere with me mainly because it wasn't that convenient, and missed some sweet shots which sucked. I am happy with the ones I got though, and will be back there soon so I will be getting some more.


Just a shot from the airplane. I'm pretty sure this was above Auckland when we were getting close to landing.


Bluff, Southland New Zealand


Tutukaka (awesome name huh? ha) Coast, Northland New Zealand
I framed this photo and it is in our bathroom now, I really like how it turned out.


Blue Lake, Southland New Zealand
I LOOOOVE THIS PICTURE. This is probably my favorite shot of the trip. I used rule of thirds with the dock. For some reason I just really like how I captured that spot, it was a gorgeous lake. There wasn't a single person around and it was just so quiet and peaceful, I seriously could have stayed for hours and just stared at that dock. There was just something about this place that was really comforting. These are the kind of spots over there that I love about New Zealand, because there are so many places that are full of tourists, and yet just a few miles away you can have a whole lake and mountain side to yourself. It is also like this at some beaches like the panorama above this. It is amazing to be able to look that far down a beach and be able to count 1, 2, 3 people on the entire thing, sometimes if that.


Not sure exact location, somewhere outside Queenstown, Southland New Zealand


Queenstown, Southland New Zealand

Queenstown, Southland New Zealand


This one isn't really edited or anything, just an example of the scenery you see everywhere while driving through the South Island. p.s. Lord of the Rings was filmed in the mountains of the South Island around here.