Category: How I shoot Landscape

some technical sharing my experience about landscape shooting

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Lee Filter Glass Enhancer

not easy to find sample regard what this glass about … finally it is on my hand to have a try … a glass to enhance magenta, red, yellow and feel it really good for dawn light …

both picture with

1. Singh-Ray RGND 2 stop

2. AWB

3. both capture within 1 min

4. same iso, aperture … shutter speed had minor different due to additional glass

 

A. dawn with Singh-Ray RGND 2 stops only

 

B. dawn with Singh-Ray RGND 2 stops and Lee Filter Glass Enhancer

 

 

some may prefer original blue + yellow contrast .. and other may prefer magenta tone …

for me, photography no right and wrong .. just what we want to capture … and we may use it to enhance the magenta/yellow/read tone inside our frame

 

If you look for Lee Filters/SIngh-Ray stock available list click HERE

or contact ME for pre-book  [Enhancer no more in Production due to Material shortage by Lee FIlters]

 

 

 

 

 

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CPL .. yes or no …..

update 2012 Aug 8

… the Beginning …
– Lee Filter 105mm CPL
– Singh-Ray RGND 2 stops

 

my Lee Filter CPL broken .. but I think I really need it back ASAP … but no stock for the moment …. hmmmmm .. but the broken one still can use on longer focal length

it is never right and wrong .. but what effect we want it to be … i need it for reduce reflection and some time contrast …

my previous share on why I use CPL … (can be circular or square …I use Marumi CPL on certain occasion)

http://liewwkphoto.com/blog/?p=432

for Lee Filters .. you can check with me stock is available or pre-order

http://liewwkphoto.com/blog/?p=398

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… last sunrise for 2011 with limit focal length …

limit by focal length (this view should good with single frame ~70mm FF) .. as I borrow my 70200 to my gang and left with 150mm with 7d (crop body) … to make this view .. I have to create ~15 pictures to merge … and final output is ~120megapix picture ….

... last sunrise for 2011 with limit focal length ...
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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

http://liewwkphoto.com/blog/?p=398

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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

Photographer meet a tree - 3

 

and …. guess who is this .. and I do believe … “photographer love tree” !!!!!!

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is gear important or the picture ?

http://www.flickr.com/photos/liewwk/6586588091/in/photostream/lightbox/

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
after get closer ....
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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 ….

a capture with Lee GND .75 only

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

Lee GND .75 with SIngh-ray RGND .6

 

hope this simple share will clear … most of the question from my friends .. “when RGND need ? ”

 

few more sample of RGND capture

RGND + Big Stopper

 

... Singamata | Semporna, Sabah ...
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you just have to trust your tripod ….

… I trust my friend – 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 …

 

we have trust our tripod

 

 

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Nightscape – Other light sources ?

Night-scape we normally refer shooting in dark … or under bright moon light. But then the light source still very limit…. we can always make use of other light source to make our picture more dynamic

here are few samples , I try to make use of some other light sources …

1.

 

1. Camera LCD

2.

 

2. Highway and buildings …

3.

3. City & Camera LCD

4.

4. torch light

 

5.

5. city light on right

6.

6. moving torchlight

 

and e.g. of picture remove the additional external light source

same view as #6 but without the moving torchlight

 

As everyone say, photography is all about light ….. so observe carefully what other light you can make use in your frame to make better photo ……

 

 

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