Mission Statement
Natural Sights is dedicated to nature and wildlife in the hope that seeing them more closely will encourage people to protect them. After all, this is the only planet we have.
Cameras
With one or two exceptions, my photographs were taken with digital cameras. My current equipment:
Canon EOS 5D
Canon Powershot G6
Current Lenses
Canon EF 16-35mm f/2.8L USM
Canon EF 24-70mm f/2.8L USM
Canon EF 70-200mm f/2.8L IS USM
Canon EF 70-200mm f/4.0L USM
Canon EF 50mm f/1.4 USM
Canon EF 100mm f/2.8 Macro USM
Canon EF 135mm f/2.0L
Canon EF 300mm f/4.0L IS USM
Canon EF 100-400mm f/4.5-5.6L IS
Canon Fisheye EF 15mm f/2.8
The photographs on this web site have been compressed and converted to low resolution to make the pages load faster.
My Methods
I shoot in RAW mode.
Once I get home, I decide which ones are worth keeping, and process them in Photoshop:
I make adjustments to levels, colors, contrast, and saturation as needed.
I do any necessary touch-up (cloning out spots or contrast masking, for example) and save a copy as a TIFF file.
I create a version that's sized, sharpened, and framed for the web, and use Photoshop's Save for Web to save a copy of it as a JPG.
The framing tool I use is a set of Photoshop Actions (
AC's Flexible Frames
) that I sell at
www.shutterfreaks.com
, a photography site that you might enjoy visiting. There's also a
a version for Photoshop Elements
.
Site Creation
The initial site creation was done in raw HTML, first with NotePad and later with HomeSite, and I still use Homesite to create my new web pages. Some of the galleries were created using BreezeBrowser.
Maintaining my site was getting very time-consuming, so I knew I needed to find another way. Consequently, the bulk of my site is created using
Gallery
, a wonderful, server-side, PHP-based gallery program. It's freeware, and I highly recommend it. If you use it and like it, please send them a donation so they can continue their work.
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