How do you get green to be so vibrant like this?
http://www.pbase.com/curtisbrandt/image/80887941
http://www.pbase.com/curtisbrandt/image/80887950
http://www.pbase.com/curtisbrandt/image/80887956
http://www.pbase.com/curtisbrandt/image/80887954

A setting or touching up after the fact? I know cloud cover helps tremendously so the sun doesn't "wash out" the color... but this green is stunning.

How is that achieved?

Also, how on earth do you achieve this kind of lighting affect? Time of day or what?
http://www.pbase.com/curtisbrandt/image/88810411

I'm not a photograph, but are you sure those aren't photoshopped?

One has to wonder. Maybe it's white balance. But my Nikon seems to do fine depending on the light available itself. I usually just leave it on Auto. But I never get greens like that. Only once, under clouds, have I achieved that affect.

kanaloa wrote:

One has to wonder. Maybe it's white balance. But my Nikon seems to do fine depending on the light available itself. I usually just leave it on Auto. But I never get greens like that. Only once, under clouds, have I achieved that affect.

Well, good luck finding out! If you have that picture you took, I'd love to see it:)

This is the closest one I've gotten (that I can think of) with no photoshop effects or darkening of colors.

http://www.hawaii-guide.com/index.php/big_island_of_hawaii_gallery/image_full/337/

Hopefully this week when we get to Kaua`i I'll have plenty of chances to try all this out with our new camera. I think I know several "tricks" to achieve the effect now. Hopefully it's just not going to be hazy. The volcano on the Big Island has been blowing a lot of Vog over the islands at times. Not exactly great for photos of landscapes. *sigh*

Do you think it may be some kind of filter perhaps. I remember some sunglasses BluBlockers, I had that really made the greens greener, actually all colors more vivid when I had them on, and yet filtered the sun

Hope what I just read doesn't affect John's vacation, but they were forced to close some park in Hawaii because of Kilauea's volcanic activity.

The lighting effect is the result of cloud cover. Purely in the right place at the right time.
The colors has everything to do with your camera equipment and lens assortment.
Canon is known for their color vibrance but its gonna cost you.
1-7k for the camera and 1-2k per lens.
Taken in my back yard with a Canon 1Ds MkIII and a Canon EF 70-200mm F2.8 IS USM L lens

I finally figured it out this trip... using Manual on my camera has helped a lot in getting the lighting right. And cloud cover is my new best friend for lush green shots. It's very clear how using these new settings are working to produce more vivid colors than the old way we shot. Natasha is still using our old methods, and I've been using our new techniques. The differences are astounding.