Tree Photos

Great job on the photos rbtree and Blakes Hitch.

On a recent visit to Portland, Oregon I saw some massive Catalpa growing on the strip between the street and sidewalk. Absolutely humungous, never seen anything like it in the northeast, had no idea they could grow that tall and wide. Then again all the eastern species I saw in the Pacific Northwest were growing larger than most of what we have, even the leaves are bigger on familiar species like Red Oak which caused me to do a double take. It's great tree growing climate out there.

rbtree do you know what kind of spruce (?) those are on the side of the snow-covered mountain? Great photo. Nice light in your Ginko and other photos.

Blakes hitch, good job stitching together the Catalpa image. Are you using a zoom or prime wide-angle? That's assuming a digital SLR, you may be shooting with a point and shoot digital. I need to go wider than what I have to photograph trees and people climbing. Get's very pricey for the good glass in this category.
-moss

Moss,
The catalpa shots were captured with a 28mm lens on a full-frame DSLR. PhotoMerge did all the work.

I've also experimented with a 15mm full-frame fisheye lens which can get an entire tree in the frame even up close but distorts the image. The PhotoShop plug-in Fisheye Hemi does a great job of removing the distortion.

Ah yes, a full frame DSLR is a good thing for tree photography. Not in the cards for the near future but what I'll have to move to it eventually.

15mm on a full frame image sensor sounds extreme but fun
-moss