Luminous Landscape Forum
Equipment & Techniques => Landscape Photography Locations => Topic started by: Respilot on February 02, 2015, 08:58:59 pm
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Sunrise at Eastern Point Lighthouse, Gloucester, Massachusetts.
Image #1
Nikon D800E
PC-E NIKKOR 24mm f/3.5D ED Tilt/Shift
F/32
ISO 50
Speed .077 Sec
Filter Used: Singh-Ray
Gold-N-Blue Polarizer
3 Stop Reverse GND
Image #2
Nikon D800E
PC-E NIKKOR 24mm f/3.5D ED Tilt/Shift
F/32
ISO 50
Speed 1.3 Sec
Filter Used: Singh-Ray
Gold-N-Blue Polarizer
3 Stop Reverse GND
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Both images are ruined by the excessive, digital burnt highlights. Solution? 1. Bracketing to have a -2 or -3 f/stops for the sun or 2. Shooting a few minutes earlier, when only a smidgen of the sun appeared. On an unrelated note, f/32 seems like an overkill, especially with a tilt-shift lens, resulting in a significant loss of overall sharpness.
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:D :D :D :DThank you very much. Photograph is an Art. To me capture these icon lighthouse with a real tool without seating in from of computer adding cosmetic of Photoshop to an photograph is not an easy it take a lots of experience. Show me your work please.
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Andy, it is perfectly ok if you prefer to do it in camera, not Photoshop. That is why my advice had two parts, one of which doesn't require Photoshop, just better timing.
Photography can be art, indeed. It is also the art of capturing the right moment, something quite inherent to photography. To successfully incorporate sun in your photography, you have to capture it at the right moment. Sun is a very powerful light source. Shooting directly into it will usually result in a big blob of a blown highlight, and might even damage the sensor. Digital is especially unforgiving for blown highlights (film, especially the negative type, has a better transition between a blown highlight and the surrounding area).
So, what's the solution? If you don't want to sit in front of the computer, then the only solution is to catch the sun a few minutes earlier in the morning (or later in the evening) when it just starts appearing above the horizon. Or hide a part of it behind something, like I did in this photograph:
(https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7167/6415581677_61f8e94933_z.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/aLVwVc)
Paris - Pont Notre-Dame (https://flic.kr/p/aLVwVc) by Slobodan Blagojevic (https://www.flickr.com/people/20843597@N05/), on Flickr
As for showing my work, you can see it on Flickr (a link is in my signature), for instance this album (https://flic.kr/s/aHsjs82LXR)
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Or hide a part of it behind something, like I did in this photograph:
Gorgeous!