Luminous Landscape Forum
Equipment & Techniques => Landscape & Nature Photography => Topic started by: 60HzShuffle on December 14, 2014, 07:55:32 am
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I've been shooting out of "auto" for a few weeks now! Anyway, attached are a few pics from a day trip on the bike. Suggestions/recommended improvements are appreciated as I am just getting started. The pictures were taken with a Nikon D810 and a 16-35mm lens freehanded (I need a good travel tripod/head for the bike). I left my CP filter at home and think that would have made the landscape photos a lot better as I had to adjust the exposure in Lightroom quite a bit. Here goes with my first post here.
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Another one
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Two more, found the link button ;)
(http://i132.photobucket.com/albums/q23/60HzShuffle/Photocritique/skenahgap_zps00755a17.jpg)
(http://i132.photobucket.com/albums/q23/60HzShuffle/Photocritique/SkenahGap3_zps8f8bafb8.jpg)
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Last one, seems like the pictures look better uploaded rather than linked.
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You seem to have a tendency to blow highlights.
Consider reading some articles about ETTR (Expose to the right) by Michaël.
Thierry
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Thanks, I will check that out. On the pictures of the field with the bright sky, the image is obviously over exposed. I was in aperture priority mode at f/5.6. Looks like the camera set iso to 6400 and shutter speed to 1/8000. It was a very clear day, so in this situation would I have been better off to have been in complete manual mode and set the iso to something more like 100?
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@ Thierry - just got around to finding that exact article. I guess the trick would be to take one shot in Aperture mode, note what the auto-iso setting was and bump it up little? My shots were way overexposed because the ISO was 6400, way too much for a sunny day.
You seem to have a tendency to blow highlights.
Consider reading some articles about ETTR (Expose to the right) by Michaël.
Thierry
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For such photos you don't need to shoot in Av or Manual Mode.
If you want to freeze water movement, use Tv Move and choose more than 1/30 sec.
But if you want to have water smoothed, use less than 1/5 sec and a good tripod.
With such a sunny day, use ISO100 or 200.
Thierry