Sigma 24-70mm f/2.8 EX DG HSM Lens Sample Pictures

Anyone familar with track will instantly recognize this as a starting line. While capturing your sports and other events, look for shots that represent the event in addition to the actual particpants doing what they do.

When the sky goes solid blue, I tend to fill most of the frame with other subjects. But I liked the little clouds that happened to be present and added just enough sky to include them.
 
This is the look of a 70mm perspective used in a landscape photo.

Clouds partially block a setting sun, resulting in streaks of sunlight across the sky. I didn't have a dramatic foreground to match the sky, but decided to leave an area of pine trees in the frame to balance the sun.

Unique clouds streak over the woods bordering a rolling pasture. The 24mm focal length is an easy angle of view to use for pleasing landscape images.

This is an example of how the Sigma 24-70mm f/2.8 HSM lens can blur the background when focused on a near-minimum-focus-distance subject. A wide open f/2.8 aperture was of course used to get this blur.

When composing an image, deciding what to exclude is just as important as deciding what to include. For this picture, I included a base of shadowed grass. The shadowed grass and non-shadowed grass combined consume about 1/3 of the frame – an amount that often works well for a landscape image. What was included in the balance of this frame was determined by what I felt provided the best overall balance.

Timing your forest photography with the seasons is important. If you want light green-colored imagery, early spring is when you should be shooting. Especially with backlit leaves, an early spring forest glows under sunlight.