Landscape session March 28, 2015

Introduction
Equipment – Your gears to take photo
Lenses 14-24mm, 24-70mm, 70-200mm with f/2.8 and prime lens 24mm with
f/2.8
Tripods mono and remote releases – vibration and shutter time
Camera setting – speed, aperture, iso – keep everything sharp, from the closest
or far distance – choosing aperture such as f/8-16 – manually focusing around
3m – shutter speed is fast enough for your hand – under 1/60s – slow motion
1/4s ISO 50 or ND with tripod.
Bracketing – for Nikon user
Lease filters – red or blue filter/enhance the color and reduce reflections,
UV/clear/haze filter, polarizing filter, Neutral Density (ND) filter, close up filter,
special effect filter, color filter
Composition – rule of third, framing images, perspective, lead the line (the
human eyes naturally follows lines and curves), creative, break the rule when it
makes sense (motive zoom while taking photo), reflection, get low and get high
Sunrise and sunset – know well the weather, 1-hour preparation, daylight preset,
raw format
Waterfalls or long exposure – use filters or polarize to slow down the speed
(silk), long exposure, low iso (100)
Silhouette
Post processing – raw/tiff/jpeg