brought my daughter and wife for quick birding .. and found this owl stand far up ….. but we still able to see it .. and while we finger point to her (to show my daughter) .. it keep look at us …
sometime we need to be confuse …
just like this picture ? a beautiful morning … but my gang (shunfa) cannot be here due to car broke down while coming …
why GND and RGND ?
did a quick compare into single image .. for why we use GND and RGND
left … – no filter while foreground correct expose but the sky will look over
Center – with GND 1.2, the sky will be balance as reduce light go through on the top part but the horizontal level still look over due to the light source from there
right – the filter transit from center to top (darker at center) so managed to block more light at the horizontal level and maintain the details
there is no right and wrong in photography .. but using different filters will give you how your picture look like …..
and if you look for Lee Filter .. Singh-Ray … i may have some stock available
Barred Eagle Owl
an owl with beautiful characteristic …. and lucky got a wink from him
when photographer meeting up with tree
we love tree ? do we ?
and landscape photographer love tree, rock .. and always make ti as foreground .. important part for the frame …
and …
3 ….. weird
and …. guess who is this .. and I do believe … “photographer love tree” !!!!!!
is gear important or the picture ?
after years use my Canon 5d … follow me to countries, beaches, volcanoes , mountains, forest … etc … and finally it giving problem … and need to go for full check up … I would say I have make full use of it by full test on salt water, poor environment (dirt, sands, cold, hot) … etc
I still ask myself a question .. “gear important or picture ?” and do you ask yourself too ? and my answer always the output so i have always put my 5d on risk .. 🙁
picture above was capture while we really close to the wave …. sometime I just go as close as 3-5 feet and as low as 5-10cm from the beach ground …..
and after get some shot from the strong wave
Reverse GND …
beside GND, CPL, Big Stopper .. another filter that always with me is Reverse GND … and I am using Singh-ray for quality capture (it produce very less color cast as Lee Filter do)
when this filter been use ? (many ask) … as dusk/dawn time the sun always stay near horizontal level which make near horizontal level over expose and make details lost ….
horizontal near sun area lost details due to the overexpose and not able to rescue by the GND filter …
so with the GND help … I can balance the horizontal level exposure and recover some details as shown
hope this simple share will clear … most of the question from my friends .. “when RGND need ? ”
few more sample of RGND capture
you just have to trust your tripod ….
to capture a beautiful photo, it is not just skill, luck … but we need to have right tool … e.g. of condition below .. we really need to trust out friend – tripod … [my gear – Tripod – fotopro]
Fotopro PGC-78c – Bigger for wildlife, bird .. taller
Fotopro M-5mini PRO – easy to carry and pocket size …
FLM Fiction Ball head – stability, fiction control … firm angle without fall down after lock ball head
Fotopro CT-5A – a new concept of tripod combine Mini M5 I share previously and MGA-584N … = CT-5A
Fotopro PGC 484 – a travel tripod only <850gram only (without ball head)
Fotopro T-series T64c/T74c/T83c – new design better stability, better sand proof …
most beautiful dusk for 2011
18 days to say good bye to 2011 .. but base on the recent weather .. I almost can say … my landscape gear need to be rest for the moment .. the weather just bad for any outing , most of the time we just have grey but nothing …
and really hope to see the dusk like this
where is the reflection …
we are keep looking for possible angle to get the reflection but too bad we fail to capture it ….
by the way … how many of us .. actually know it is a black and white while we shooting or convert it after it do not look good on the computer screen ? … and we should know what/how we edit our picture before press the shutter ….?