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” !!!!!!

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 ....

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

 

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