Mike - I agree with your comments about the light. Time of day plays a very big part. I'm also looking at laying my hands on a few filters over the next few weeks. First up, a circular polarising filter.
Would I be right in saying that guy's monochrome image is an HDR?
I'm not familiar with that technique....but I'll have to swat up. It's an excellent effect.
Thanks for the feedback. I appreciate it. I'm enthusiastic about improvng my terrestrial images.
You're mastering this camera very quickly Matt, well done.
You have the basics down well - level horizons, rule of thirds, lines drawing the eye in to the subject.
Good work.
As Mike said, use the early morning or late afternoon light to your advantage.
Nice work. You're well on your way. Agreed with Mike, need to shoot at sunrise or sunset.
A pro circular polarizing filter is next on my purchase list, too, along with some very specialised filters. I'm going to try and push my photography to another level.
Also, that monochrome image is not HDR. It is a long exposure image. Judging by the water, about 1 second.
I like that blurred effect and some HDR shots display something similar.
Gonna get some practice in with a few long exposure waterfall shots etc before I get to New Zealand later in the year and really cut loose with some 'creative' stuff in that magnificent geography.
I like that blurred effect and some HDR shots display something similar.
Gonna get some practice in with a few long exposure waterfall shots etc before I get to New Zealand later in the year and really cut loose with some 'creative' stuff in that magnificent geography.
It's a pain in the butt trying to do HDR stuff with moving objects, such as water, as you end up with "holes" in the image where the software has been unable to successfully render data. Unless you're willing to manually mask in the correctly exposed image to fill the holes, it turns out pretty bad.
I'll be taking my 5D Mark II and a bunch of my L-series lenses to New Zealand (driving around south island over a two week period) in April or May, just in time for autumn, to capture all those orange, reds, and yellows.
Looking forward to seeing what you capture in New Zealand!
Yeah...it looked OK to me too, but that's what the sign said.
