About Rob
Hi!
I’m Rob Servranckx, 1/2 of the Sojourns In Nature team, and the web master of the site.
I’ve decided to start a small blog to talk about photography…
I am currently employed as a Technical Project Manager with Cactus Commerce, an e-commerce/e-business solutions provider
I live in a quiet suburb of Montreal with my wife, Johanne, and Labrador Retriever, Gryphon.
Having had a life-long passion for nature and wildlife, and being the Web Master of noted nature photographers Gustav W. Verderber and Roy Toft, it’s of little surprise that I’ve developed a true passion for nature and wildlife photography
My photographic journey started in September 2004, with the acquisition of a Canon EOS 20D digital SLR camera, a number of quality Canon lenses, and other photographic equipment. Despite being a late bloomer, I’ve won numerous photography contests and prizes in a very short time behind the lens. My images have been published in Yankee Magazine, Nature’s Best Magazine, National Wildlife Magazine and others. My photographs are available for licensing via Oxford Scientific and Visuals Unlimited (my stock agencies) – type “servranckx” in the search box.
If you are interested in my photography, or in Web design or photo retouching services, please don’t hesitate to contact me.
I hope you enjoy your visit…
Rob
Posted by Rob under | Comments (2)
Wonderful pictures. I’m a software developer from Sweden recently beginning with photography (Own a Canon eos450d with sigma 10-20 canon 55-250 is, canon 50 1.8 and tamron 17-50 2.8 plus a lot of coking filters including g/b polarizer and nd grads). I just look at your winterpictures (solstice 2008) and I just love the saturated colors after using a polarizer filter. It seems that it washes the colors to a more perfect palette, of a deep and warm orange, deeper green and blue… In addition to clarity and contrast. It cannot easily be reproduced in PS, I am sure, since its very subtle and complex. It seems to me one should always use a good polarizer in outdoor photography, since the spectrum of the Sun comes to its royal degree.. I have my camera on AF adjust now so I cannot take pics yet
but I hope it gets better. Just in case I ordered a split manual focus screen, so I can be without AF in worst case…
Very Good Work, one of the higher qualities on net.
Hello Jonas,
Thank you for the kind comments and feedback on our images in the Sojourns In Nature blog. It’s always a pleasure when strangers take the time to write to us.
Yes, a polarizing filter will help saturate colors, and I very much prefer a good filters rather than adjusting in post-processing. The effects that a polarizer produces simply cannot be duplicated in Photoshop… I agree that there are not too many landscape/plant images that a polarizer will not improve!
Note that the two winter sunset images on the Solstice 2008 post are multi-exposure HDR images processed in Photomatix. However, I still use filters when I do HDR shots, and the “middle/correct” exposure of those images is similar to the processed HDR version.
Rob