Use a 10-stop ND filter, drag out the shutter speed and use the shaking black card technique. 摇黑卡.
Well apparently, this is the scene that i wish to capture that day. The one i'm posting now is one of my test shots, in order to try my best to see how can i even out the exposure of the foreground and the sky. The filter used is not a gnd for this particular shot but an ND8 instead, placed at the horizon. I really like the details shown in this shot but unfortunately this is not my idea of a nice picture. Please guide me. Thank you.
No editing is done. Shoot in RAW and save as jpeg.
your water is blown
and brighter than your sky
tell me, how is that a pleasing effect?
your water is blown
and brighter than your sky
tell me, how is that a pleasing effect?
LOL, what i meant is that i like the way the sky is visible and i hope to get a perfect exposure with the sky showing the details as this trial and error shot that i posted. From all the ideas given on how this shot can be a great one is to use layers. I find that ND is not really suitable of course as shown in my sample. My GND seems to help abit but not very well either.
Hi everyone, i need some help from all the landscape shooters who shoots during the day. The problem i have is that i always get over blown skies after setting the correct exposure for the foreground subject but in return, i always get overblown skies. If i were to get the exposure right for the sky then the foreground will be underexposed. I have tried using a GND filter but it doesn't really help that much. Since i have a GND filter, which i believe give 2 stops of light loss, is there any other GND filter that i can use that will at least gives me an 8 to 10 stops of light or should i just stack 3 GND filters and will roughly get about 6 stops? Please help me out on this. Thank you.
If you want to have the sky and the water and surrounding trees,
- do not shoot when the sun is at late afternoon in the opposite end. It cast too much shadow on the trees.
- Stack a CPL and a gradual ND. When selecting scene, avoid too much dark area subjects.
- Shoot raw where possible as it is very hard to know if the outcome is ok from LCD.
- You cannot expect clear blue water unless you are standing at high level, so reflection is unavoidable.
- Avoid when there is overcast, since the sky will blown easily as it get bright.
Here is an example where the shadow side is very dark, while the sun side is very bright. Preserving all 4 area (LR,top bottom) will require compromise. For this pic, the DR was pushed up by X3 fill, else the right side of the bank will be black.
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I avoided selecting the dark area where the sun is behind me thus most is visible without too much tweaking. CPL only.
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