The Amazon Photos I promised!

[Fiji Live Rock]

Ok...I hope you all have broadband connections...caus this could take a while to load otherwise. (NOTE: I did shrink the photos down a little bit to fit them.) **All photos are Copyrighted and may not be reproduced in iny way!**

(All photographs are for sale. I will have the photo of your choice enlarged, framed, and shipped to you in a protective box or crate. Cost depending on size of enlargment, frame selection and shipping selection. Email me for details!)

-Nothing like a photo of fear within a man's soul. :lol: (My best friend is affraid of hieghts, we were about 180' off the ground.)
http://www.xtremecustomdesign.com/images/amazon/Photo1a.JPG

-A little Tree Frog.
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-A nice action shot of another student playing soccer with the locals.
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-The longest canopy suspension bridge in the world stretching over 300'.
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-A VERY TOUGH night shot of 3 Pink River Dolphins. (You have no idea how hard it was to photograph these things in a motion like captured and with the crapy light conditions! :| )
http://www.xtremecustomdesign.com/images/amazon/Photo5a.JPG

-(Same as above but edited) 3 Pink River Dolphins at Dusk (Blue Glare Spectrum removed by: phistio ...who promiced me a copy of the AP7.0 which I never got! :P )
http://www.xtremecustomdesign.com/images/amazon/riverdolphins2.jpeg

-A close-up of a wild Macaw.
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-Another close-up of a wild Macaw. (NOTE: These are wild birds, they are just use to the human presense in the Scientific Research Camps.)
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-A poisonus jumping spider.
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-One of my favorite photographs from the Amazon, a beautiful Orchid!
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-A Macaw and a Green Parrot scoping eachother out.
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-Aww playful love of a Macaw and a Green Parrot.
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-This shows you how wild the Macaws are. This one didn't like the "Paparatzi Attention" I was giving him! :lol:
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-A photograph of a Blue Morpho Butterfly. (He was being stubborn and wouldn't open his/her wings! :evil: )
http://www.xtremecustomdesign.com/images/amazon/Photo12a.JPG

-Two Native Indian Chiefs showing us how to use a 8' hand-made blowgun. (It takes a chief 3 months of daily work to make one blowgun! I purchased the black one from the second chief in the photo that is reloading it for $20 US.)
http://www.xtremecustomdesign.com/images/amazon/Photo13a.JPG

-A wild Macaw in flight. (I think he/she was running away from me. :( )
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-A wild Macaw in flight in front of me. (Got a nice shot of this one at the spur-of-the-moment!)
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-Two native girls in a hand made boat.
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-A beautiful photograph of a Bird Of Paradise with a bee on the center of it!
http://www.xtremecustomdesign.com/images/amazon/Photo19a.JPG

-And what a fitting way to end this photo log...a shot of Dusk across the Amazon River. (You can see the stars starting to shine "the little white specks in the darker upper left part of the sky")
http://www.xtremecustomdesign.com/images/amazon/riverdolphins2.jpeg

Well Hope you all enjoyed my piece of the Amazon Rainforest.

Talk to you all later. :D

[phistio]

nice pictures fiji!!!

i myself am a hobbyist/freelance photographer...that river dolphin picture is phenomenal!!! i realize how hard it would have been to get that picture right, in the fraction of a mili-second! and to meter properly as the subject is backlit, as well as get the shutter speed just right for the light and motion! what was the ISO, fstop, and shutter speed settign, if you recall???

also, what are you shooting on? (body, lense, film and filters?)

that final sunset shot is awesome too...did you bracket that shot, or was that the only one? just think if you had gone -2 stops on the same shot...WOW!!! still an awesome shot! i love how you can see a full range of light as well as the star off high in the horizon!

great pictures!!! keep up the great work!!! :mrgreen:

[Pineapple House]

Wow, those are outstanding pictures! :-D Great work, I esspecielly like the butterfly and tree frog :)

PH =)

[Irisservice]

Nice Pictures!!!

[Fiji Live Rock]

nice pictures fiji!!!

i myself am a hobbyist/freelance photographer...that river dolphin picture is phenomenal!!! i realize how hard it would have been to get that picture right, in the fraction of a mili-second! and to meter properly as the subject is backlit, as well as get the shutter speed just right for the light and motion! what was the ISO, fstop, and shutter speed settign, if you recall???

also, what are you shooting on? (body, lense, film and filters?)

that final sunset shot is awesome too...did you bracket that shot, or was that the only one? just think if you had gone -2 stops on the same shot...WOW!!! still an awesome shot! i love how you can see a full range of light as well as the star off high in the horizon!

great pictures!!! keep up the great work!!! :mrgreen:

As for the settings, I do not recall what I had everything set for. That was a long day and I didn't write down the settings like usual for each shot or series of shots.

-I am using a EOS A2 Canon.
-The lense I was using at that time was a Sigma ZOOM 28-80mm 1:3.5-5.6 MACRO
-Film was Kodak Max 400 (Good light sensitivity, but not too grainy.)
-Filters I use are a Crystal-Optics 55mm UV and a Crystal-Optics polarized 55mm. (These 2 are for this lense only.)

The river shot at dusk...that one is the best out of a series of about 5 shots. I will have to look how many I took to get that one. I took 25 Rolls of film (20 x 24 exp = 480 shots)(5 x 36 exp = 180 shots) during my trip and used every one so I have over 600 pictures.

Also, the reason the lighting is so spectacular in the last photo is due to the fact that we were in the middle of the Amazon and there weren't any lights for hundreds of miles. I wish I would have taken a shot of the stars at night. You could see 50x more stars there than you can here in the US. The Milky Way was completely visible. It was a sight that I will never forget for as long as I live.

[Fiji Live Rock]

Oh I almost forgot. That shot of the "Dusk on the Amazon."

I did that shot sitting in a moving boat. We were on our way back to camp at that time.

As for the "River Dolphins" I just wish that the blue light spectrum didng get refracted into my lense when I took that shot. You can see the two semi circles of the blue spectrum in the photo. If that wouldn't have showed up then that picture would have been flawless in my own opinion. :|

[phistio]

so why not put it into photoshop 7.0 and stamp out the refractions? i could do it for you if you want...

[Fiji Live Rock]

Sure...copy the img and give it a try...see what u can do. :)

[phistio]

here you go...

[Fiji Live Rock]

:shock: :shock: :shock: :shock: :shock: :shock: :shock: :shock:

Woah! :shock: :shock: :shock: :shock:

Nice! Very NICE! :D

What ever you did took all that Blue Spectrum glare away!

I gotta get me that program! I have been using a OLD version of Adobe and it is a piece of junk and all it does is annoy me so I never use it.

That is a great job! :D :mrgreen:

[phistio]

fiji, check your messages...

[Fugly]

Have you got Adobe Photoshop 7? It's really good thats what I use. :wink:

[phistio]

yup i have 7.0.01 with about 400 plug-ins.

i've been using adobe photoshop for about 9 years now.

[RazerCorals]

Wow those are some awesome pictures. Thanks for sharing.

[Samurai]

Impressive pictures. I'm a little jealous that you got to go to the Amazon, but I am terrified of snakes and I know that they are all over the place there. I liked the bird of paradise and the sunset. I've always thought it was sad that people take those rare birds and confine them to tiny cages. I suppose that's not all that different from some fish that are kept in aquariums. Even massive aquariums are infinitesmally small compared to the ocean. The only difference is that there is some intelligence with those birds. BTW where are all the monkeys???

[Zack]

NICE man good luck :D

[Fiji Live Rock]

Do you believe it? We only saw monkeys 1 time on the entire 9 day excursion! :shock:

I will have to see if I took any photos of them or not.

There wasn't many snakes...very few that we saw. There were spiders though out the wazoo! :shock: :twisted:

Thank you for all the comments!

[cafetao]

Fiji, When were you in Brazil? did you go anywhere besides the Amazon? I used to live in Brazil so I'm curious.

[Fiji Live Rock]

We were in Peru in the Amazon Basin.

I will have to get all those photos up on my new web server again. :?

[Fiji Live Rock]

Go to the fist post! I fould all my photos on my computer and uploaded them to my new web server. :wink: :mrgreen: :D

[Brando]

i like them!!

[Fiji Live Rock]

I couldn't stay away...no matter how hard I tried! :mrgreen: This is my home away from home. (Full of the good times and all the pain in the arse arguments! :roll: :P )

Thank you Brando!