A cracker landscape tip - from Nikon

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A cracker landscape tip - from Nikon

Postby Matt. K on Thu Mar 17, 2005 7:19 pm

Just read this tip and can see its potential. If you are a landscape freak and have lots of time...set your camera up on a tripod and take 3 or 4 pics a number of hours apart....so that you capture different lighting effects. Stack them up as layers in PS and combine them at different opacities for a spectacular, or subtle, landscape. Hmmm. Great for the unemployed or unmarried.
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Re: A cracker landscape tip - from Nikon

Postby georgie on Thu Mar 17, 2005 7:41 pm

Matt. K wrote:... Hmmm. Great for the unemployed or unmarried.

or without kids :D
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Postby Glen on Thu Mar 17, 2005 7:52 pm

It might help sell a few more cameras though. Where can you leave you camera for 8 hours unmolested? :wink:
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Postby Matt. K on Thu Mar 17, 2005 8:28 pm

In front of my house. :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:
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Postby Glen on Thu Mar 17, 2005 8:36 pm

:lol: :lol: :lol:
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Postby Hlop on Thu Mar 17, 2005 8:51 pm

Glen wrote:It might help sell a few more cameras though. Where can you leave you camera for 8 hours unmolested? :wink:


Aw, you just have to have well trained pittbull (not sure about spelling) terrier chained to the tripod leg
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Postby Killakoala on Thu Mar 17, 2005 8:57 pm

Or a good book and a chair.
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Postby the foto fanatic on Thu Mar 17, 2005 9:34 pm

Hlop wrote:
Glen wrote:It might help sell a few more cameras though. Where can you leave you camera for 8 hours unmolested? :wink:


Aw, you just have to have well trained pittbull (not sure about spelling) terrier chained to the tripod leg


I have visions of a photographer running down the street chasing a dog, which is disappearing into the distance trailling a tripod and several thousand $$$s worth of Nikon camera and lens behind it! :lol: :lol:
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Postby BBJ on Thu Mar 17, 2005 9:51 pm

You bet me too it cricketfan, if it was my dog, she would spot a cat and be off like a rocket and knowing her the tripod wouldn't stop her either.LOL
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Postby atencati on Fri Mar 18, 2005 3:57 am

I read a tip like that recently elsewhere. Take 1 shot with the foreground exposed properly, sky and clouds blown, the take one of the sky exposed properly and combine the two images to get a good pic...

not sure I like the advice

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Postby owen on Fri Mar 18, 2005 9:09 am

atencati wrote:I read a tip like that recently elsewhere. Take 1 shot with the foreground exposed properly, sky and clouds blown, the take one of the sky exposed properly and combine the two images to get a good pic...

not sure I like the advice

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Hi Andy.

This is just a way to increase the dynamic range of the image. Alternatively you can use a neutral density filter.
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Postby Hlop on Fri Mar 18, 2005 9:10 am

cricketfan wrote:
I have visions of a photographer running down the street chasing a dog, which is disappearing into the distance trailling a tripod and several thousand $$$s worth of Nikon camera and lens behind it! :lol: :lol:


I knew someone will step into this trap .... :) Here we're getting to the point where you have to go to Birddog and buy rock solid tripod to avoid transformation of this dream to reality :)
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Postby Hlop on Fri Mar 18, 2005 9:12 am

owen wrote:This is just a way to increase the dynamic range of the image. Alternatively you can use a neutral density filter.


I doubt it'll help. You have to use graduated filter in this case
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Postby owen on Fri Mar 18, 2005 9:19 am

Hlop wrote:
owen wrote:This is just a way to increase the dynamic range of the image. Alternatively you can use a neutral density filter.


I doubt it'll help. You have to use graduated filter in this case


It does work Mikhail.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v717/owenschmierer/Crookhaven%20Heads/DSC_3065.jpg

This was taken from bracketing two shots and then merging together... if I hadn't done this either the sky would be blown or the foreground would be too dark.
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Postby pippin88 on Fri Mar 18, 2005 9:28 am

owen wrote:
Hlop wrote:
owen wrote:This is just a way to increase the dynamic range of the image. Alternatively you can use a neutral density filter.


I doubt it'll help. You have to use graduated filter in this case


It does work Mikhail.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v717/owenschmierer/Crookhaven%20Heads/DSC_3065.jpg

This was taken from bracketing two shots and then merging together... if I hadn't done this either the sky would be blown or the foreground would be too dark.


I think he meant you need a graduated neutral density filter? Or is that just a longer name for an ND filter?
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Postby Hlop on Fri Mar 18, 2005 9:29 am

owen wrote:
It does work Mikhail.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v717/owenschmierer/Crookhaven%20Heads/DSC_3065.jpg

This was taken from bracketing two shots and then merging together... if I hadn't done this either the sky would be blown or the foreground would be too dark.


Aw, sorry, I meant neutral density filter won't help - it allows you to use lower shutter speed in a bright light situation but to solve a problem of blown sky you have to use graduated filter.

Blending of two images I'm using myself from time to time but I don't really like it
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Postby owen on Fri Mar 18, 2005 9:31 am

awww man, and I did mean to say graduated ND filter rather than just ND... what can I say, it's Friday! :)
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Postby Hlop on Fri Mar 18, 2005 9:31 am

pippin88 wrote:I think he meant you need a graduated neutral density filter? Or is that just a longer name for an ND filter?


No, it's not a longer name, It's a half tinted half clear filter in a rough description. It might be ND, or color filter
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Postby Hlop on Fri Mar 18, 2005 9:32 am

owen wrote:awww man, and I did mean to say graduated ND filter rather than just ND... what can I say, it's Friday! :)


Communication breakdown :)
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Postby Killakoala on Fri Mar 18, 2005 9:46 am

A 'Graduated ND filter' and an 'ND filter' are two different things.

The Graduated filter is darker on one end and lightens towards the other end. It allows you to reduce the glare of the sky and keep the foreground exposed better.

I used a Graduated ND filter for the pano below. As you can see, the sky is exposed at about the same quantity as the foreground.
http://www.stevekilburn.com/stevekilbur ... 0Quay.html

An ND filter on the other hand is the same tone/darkness over the entire filter.

ND Filters usually come in values of +2, +4 or +8. The higher the number, the darker the filter.
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Postby owen on Fri Mar 18, 2005 9:47 am

Killakoala wrote:A 'Graduated ND filter' and an 'ND filter' are two different things.

The Graduated filter is darker on one end and lightens towards the other end. It allows you to reduce the glare of the sky and keep the foreground exposed better.

I used a Graduated ND filter for the pano below. As you can see, the sky is exposed at about the same quantity as the foreground.
http://www.stevekilburn.com/stevekilbur ... 0Quay.html

An ND filter on the other hand is the same tone/darkness over the entire filter.

ND Filters usually come in values of +2, +4 or +8. The higher the number, the darker the filter.


Hey Mate.

What rating graduated ND filter did you use for that shot?

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