Hello,
Congratulations on completing the course and thanks for sharing your final project with the community.
This is such a great example of beautiful landscape photography. I love how you go from close-up to wide to super wide, it's almost like a short movie.
I'd like to comment on your first picture: I think the exposure has not been set correctly, because the sky is almost completely white. Photographing landscapes on a sunny day can be harder than one may think.
The camera is not capable of capturing both very bright and very dark parts of the image at the same time. It can capture the land correctly, or the sky, but not both. We might expect it to be able to do so, because our eyes do this all the time. Our eyes are pretty amazing, actually. They are capable of clearly seeing a huge range of brightness. For example, we can look out of a window at the sky and see the clouds, but we can also still see the room we are in, despite the fact it is much more dimly lit. We can clearly see detail and colour in both brightly and dimly lit areas of the world around us without needing to let our eyes adjust. The digital camera can’t do this so well. When it looks at a given scene it has a narrower range, with a maximum and minimum level of brightness it can successfully capture.
So, what are the solutions?
i) don’t include too much sky in the frame
ii) reduce the exposure, so the sky is not overexposed (don’t bring it down too much otherwise the land will turn black)
iii) use HDR, either on camera or in Lightroom (please note this is quite an advanced option)
I hope this helps!
Thanks again for sharing your project.
Best of luck,
Giulia
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giulia.candussi
Teacher PlusHello,
Congratulations on completing the course and thanks for sharing your final project with the community.
This is such a great example of beautiful landscape photography. I love how you go from close-up to wide to super wide, it's almost like a short movie.
I'd like to comment on your first picture: I think the exposure has not been set correctly, because the sky is almost completely white. Photographing landscapes on a sunny day can be harder than one may think.
The camera is not capable of capturing both very bright and very dark parts of the image at the same time. It can capture the land correctly, or the sky, but not both. We might expect it to be able to do so, because our eyes do this all the time. Our eyes are pretty amazing, actually. They are capable of clearly seeing a huge range of brightness. For example, we can look out of a window at the sky and see the clouds, but we can also still see the room we are in, despite the fact it is much more dimly lit. We can clearly see detail and colour in both brightly and dimly lit areas of the world around us without needing to let our eyes adjust. The digital camera can’t do this so well. When it looks at a given scene it has a narrower range, with a maximum and minimum level of brightness it can successfully capture.
So, what are the solutions?
i) don’t include too much sky in the frame
ii) reduce the exposure, so the sky is not overexposed (don’t bring it down too much otherwise the land will turn black)
iii) use HDR, either on camera or in Lightroom (please note this is quite an advanced option)
I hope this helps!
Thanks again for sharing your project.
Best of luck,
Giulia
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