Learning Landscapes - Reflection

[nimitzbenedicto]

Hi Christina,

I guess some may have mentioned it, but it may be a good guide to select either cropping below or above to give emphasis to the sky or simply the reflection.

Just me......

[Brownbear]

Thank you to all for your very helpful advice and tips.

Victor and Kathy - Thank you for sharing and advising on cropping. Kathy, thanks for taking the time to show me a cropped version. I like it.


Paul - Thank you for taking the time to show me an edit. It looks much better. Later today I will try the same and post in an edit. In Adobe Photoshop there is a lens correction for vignetting. It is set at 100, and one can move this point lower or higher. I will look the tool up and figure out how to use it.

Mike - As always, great advice. Yes, I need to do that and I need to reset my camera to normal modes, too. I do have a tendency to get caught up in the moment and forget about everything else.

John - Thank you for sharing and very helpful for me to understand.

John - Thank you so much for sharing and advising, and especially for including a visual graph for me to see how that black point is moved. I will also try this in the edit that I will get around to later today. The colours in the photo need to be brought out more (not including the blue)...

Thank you to all for commenting and advising. Very helpful to understanding more about landscapes and truly appreciated

[Mike Buckley]

I need to reset my camera to normal modes, too.

Assuming your D7100 works like my D7000, you have two card slots and your camera settings can be downloaded to a memory card stored in Slot #1. So, configure your camera according to whatever basic settings you would most likely use to start a shoot. Download the settings to the card.

Remove the card in Slot #1 and change the position of the little slider on the card to write-protect that card. (You can use a really small card for this purpose that you might not be able to use for any other purpose; mine is only 128 megabytes.) Return the card to Slot #1.

Also configure your camera to store images in Slot #1 and to use Slot #2 as an overflow once the card in Slot #1 is filled up. Your camera will "think" the memory card in Slot #1 is full and will automatically save images onto your card in Slot #2.

When you begin each shoot, simply upload your camera settings from the memory card stored in Slot #1. No matter how you changed your settings in your previous shoot, your camera settings will now be reconfigured as you want them. The upload is so instantaneous that the first time you upload you might wonder if the upload actually took place.

[Brownbear]

Thank you Mike.

Yes, my camera is just like that. It sounds like a handy tool but does it mean that I will have less space on my cards for overflow images?

Assuming your D7100 works like my D7000, you have two card slots and your camera settings can be downloaded to a memory card stored in Slot #1. So, configure your camera according to whatever basic settings you would most likely use to start a shoot. Download the settings to the card.

Remove the card in Slot #1 and change the position of the little slider on the card to write-protect that card. (You can use a really small card for this purpose that you might not be able to use for any other purpose; mine is only 128 megabytes.) Return the card to Slot #1.

Also configure your camera to store images in Slot #1 and to use Slot #2 as an overflow once the card in Slot #1 is filled up. Your camera will "think" the memory card in Slot #1 is full and will automatically save images onto your card in Slot #2.

When you begin each shoot, simply upload your camera settings from the memory card stored in Slot #1. No matter how you changed your settings in your previous shoot, your camera settings will now be reconfigured as you want them. The upload is so instantaneous that the first time you upload you might wonder if the upload actually took place.

[Mike Buckley]

It means that your storage space will be limited to whatever card you are using in Slot #2. One solution is to keep extra cards in your pocket if the storage capacity of the card in Slot #2 is insufficient. Another solution is to remove the memory card from Slot #1 once you have uploaded the camera settings. Place a different memory card in Slot #1 so cards in both slots can be used to store images.

[Brownbear]

Following are my edits following the guidelines provided to the best of my ability.

I experienced a great deal of difficulty trying to burn the lighter sky to match the colour of the polarized sky, so I used a combination of burning and cloning, and ditto for for cloning out the piece of machinery. I find it very hard to do well.

I lowered the black point just a wee bit because I didn't seem to have any range in the image to play with this. I did increase the vibrancy of the image and I think this brought out the colours.





This place is not too far from me, so I will visit and try this shot again.

Thank you to everyone for your help and advice. Truly appreciated.