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p.1 #1 · p.1 #1 · landscape shooting question


i have a nikon D7000 and the tokina 11-16 lens. Im heading to upper Michigan next week and when trying to shoot sun sets i can never seem to get the foreground bright without blowing out the sun set ? How do i get the bright vibrant colors in the pics ? Same with shooting waterfalls (the vibrant color part ).


Jun 25, 2014 at 09:41 PM
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p.1 #2 · p.1 #2 · landscape shooting question


Blending makes it much easier. The camera is going to expose for the brightest part of the scene, so bracketing will help you a bunch

Colors depend on ambient lighting. Changing your WB will help to an extent.



Jun 25, 2014 at 09:44 PM
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p.1 #3 · p.1 #3 · landscape shooting question


is the bracketing done in camera ?


Jun 25, 2014 at 09:46 PM
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p.1 #4 · p.1 #4 · landscape shooting question


If you want to get as close as possible with in-camera settings shooting Jpeg. Increase your saturation (or go to a vivid/landscape picture mode), shoot on cloudy white balance for sunsets and use a Graduated Neutral Density filter to even out your exposures.

If you are capable with Post processing, a cheaper option is to Bracket your image, shoot raw and process the photos how you want to and mask the different exposures to create one.




Jun 25, 2014 at 09:49 PM
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p.1 #5 · p.1 #5 · landscape shooting question


bracketing is done in camera. Takes three to five (or more) exposures all with different shutter speeds. In photoshop you can blend them


Jun 25, 2014 at 09:51 PM
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p.1 #6 · p.1 #6 · landscape shooting question


ok so the camera doesnt put them to gather, got it. thanks every one...


Jun 25, 2014 at 10:04 PM
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p.1 #7 · p.1 #7 · landscape shooting question


irlfan82 wrote:
i have a nikon D7000 and the tokina 11-16 lens. Im heading to upper Michigan next week and when trying to shoot sun sets i can never seem to get the foreground bright without blowing out the sun set ? How do i get the bright vibrant colors in the pics ? Same with shooting waterfalls (the vibrant color part ).


I have the same camera and lens combo. Every pic in this thread -

https://www.fredmiranda.com/forum/topic/1302798


was shot with 3 shot bracketing on a mono-pod with I believe a .7 stop differential. I then used Photomatix to combine them.

I think they turned out pretty well. I also shot RAW for these.



Jun 26, 2014 at 07:26 AM
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p.1 #8 · p.1 #8 · landscape shooting question


Do you use a tripod?


Jun 26, 2014 at 07:32 AM
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p.1 #9 · p.1 #9 · landscape shooting question


Safest is shoot RAW AND bracket. Then schedule a few afternoons to play with Photoshop. Or your preferred editing program.

FYI, Adobe has a free downloadable utility to convert RAW to .dng, which can be read by many more programs that late versions of Photoshop.

And there's also ViewNX.



Jun 26, 2014 at 07:35 AM
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p.1 #10 · p.1 #10 · landscape shooting question


Graduated ND filters will help out too.


Jun 26, 2014 at 07:35 AM
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p.1 #11 · p.1 #11 · landscape shooting question


always shoot in RAW.


Jun 26, 2014 at 02:04 PM
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p.1 #12 · p.1 #12 · landscape shooting question


You'll need an ND filter: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graduated_neutral_density_filter

Hold the shaded part in front of your lens to "tone down" the sun, then expose for the foreground. Boom




Jun 26, 2014 at 03:06 PM
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p.1 #13 · p.1 #13 · landscape shooting question


what mode is best to shoot when using bracketing ?


Jun 26, 2014 at 05:00 PM
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p.1 #14 · p.1 #14 · landscape shooting question


Watch the first 15-20 minutes of this video, he lays it all out regarding correct exposures. You can skip the HDR part, unless you are interested.
(copy and past in your browser)




Jun 26, 2014 at 05:51 PM
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p.1 #15 · p.1 #15 · landscape shooting question


I always use manual mode


Jun 26, 2014 at 07:03 PM
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p.1 #16 · p.1 #16 · landscape shooting question


so use manual mode, set the fstop and shutter speed, then go into bracketing choose 3 photos and set the bracketing increment to desired setting. Im guessing i should keep the focus point the same, and once finding focus switch to manual as not to loss focus.


Jun 26, 2014 at 09:33 PM
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p.1 #17 · p.1 #17 · landscape shooting question


My advise is, find the midtone first. Then control the highlights with a ND Grad. If you can light up the shadows artificially, even better, otherwise, do muliti-exposure and blend them in photoshop. Cheers.


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