There are so many softwares that have presets to make your modern pics old. I love shooting with a film camera because it gives you the typical look. But, nowadays, it's so easy to produce the film look with post-processing. Here all I did was dial down the saturation and applied grain (noise) to the pic. (Nikon D7000, Sigma 150-500mm f/5.0-6.3 at 300mm, f/6, 1/250, ISO = 100, post-processing with Lightroom 4).
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Skagway is fun. You can take a heli ride to top of a glacier, train ride to Yukon and you can enjoy good seafood. This was taken just few minutes from the cruise ship. If you go north (the only way you can go) from the ship toward the town, there is a spot where you can capture all of these boats, water reflection and glacier curved mountains in the background. You can get better reflection in the morning when wind is calm. (Nikon D7000, Nikkor 18-200DX at 20mm, 1/100, f/11, ISO 125)
I found a spot in a rainforest in Alaska where the light was penetrating through the trees and illuminating the shorter plants. The trees and foreground are naturally darker than green leaves of the short plants, too. Those made the natural vignette. I did further processing on my computer to enhance the vignetting effect. They are working together to act as a nice frame for the green plants. (Nikon D7000, Nikkor 18-200mm at 32mm. f/5. 1/200. ISO = 1600, handheld)
After chasing whales for hours, taking their pictures, I realized that most of the pictures I took look the same. I needed something different and interesting. Here, I took a picture of people on a separate tour on a different boat looking for the whales. Even though the main focus in on those people on the boat, my eyes naturally move toward the middle of the picture, at where all those people seem to be looking. Maybe, that's where they saw the whales last. Or maybe, they saw the shadow. Maybe, their tour guide directed them that direction. I can make up a lot of stories from this picture. (Nikon D7000, Sigma 150-500mm at 150mm f/9.0, 1/500, ISO = 400) The reason for this weird set up is that I was shooting moving whales, so that the high shutter speed was needed and long tele zoom was left on.
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