Landscape Reviews

[terrig]

You guys are so nice to help! Thank You! Once again would you advise me to crop more off bottom?

[Digital]

Terri, If this was my photograph I would not. Others may disagree.
The most important point is what you think.


Bruce

[terrig]

Terri, If this was my photograph I would not. Others may disagree.
The most important point is what you think.


Bruce

Thanks Bruce, I wouldn't. I think it balances out the sky.

[terrig]

Terri - let me give you my simplified workflow that I use pretty well all the time other than when shooting with studion lights or am experimenting with a technique I am trying to figure out. I generally shot jpeg + RAW almost 100% of the time. I often use auto white balance as well (I shoot Nikon cameras as well)

1. Select the shooting ISO - I generally shoot at as low ans ISO as I can as that gives the highest image qualtiy. My D90 is usually set at ISO 200 and the D800 ast ISO 100.

2. Decide if I am shooting for a specifc depth of field (very shallow for effect or wide open to get everything in focus). If so, I will shoot aperture priority (A) mode and will set the aperture I want to shoot with. This is probably 80% - 90% of the time. The rest of the time I will be trying to do something with motion; either freeze motion or blurr motion. Here I choose shutter priority mode (S) and will choose a shutter speed.

3. Take the shot...

4. I will generally check my histogram on my first shot and may make a tweak (ISO and shutter / aperture) and exposure compensation, depending on what I see or feel is happening.

5. I will work the scene (landscape and portrait mode) trying to take the subject a number of different ways.

6. After the shoot I will review my shots to see how well my plan worked (if doesn't always work) but I pretty well always get a few shots that I am really happy with.

If you shoot develop a systematic approach to taking pictures and become your own harshest critic, you will improve as photographyer.

Look at photographs that you like (from famous and unknown photographers) and start analysing / reverse engineering how they have composed and processed theri images and learn from them.

I'm having difficulty locating the histogram on my camera...have studied the book. Someone mentioned about setting it in Live Mode?? I'm going to have to upgrade PSE to shoot in raw. I see ISO default is 100. I'm starting to understand.