Must haves for Landscapes - Sun burn out problems

Hung by your own petard!

See who you come crawling too in 20 years when you've no water!

dewmuw wrote:
Hung by your own petard!

See who you come crawling too in 20 years when you've no water!

Didn't you know we all use Champagne here now.

Graham

Having been to England many times, I would have to say....If the sun does not shine all the time, then the people sure do. I am looking for a wide lens also...my first thougts are to get the Tokina 12-24. That should be wide enough to shoot the local landscape here in Oklahoma.

That's like so 1980's.

I should get hip and walk around with those little bottles of pop, like the young folk!

How wild is that.

Graham

Also, with a RAW image you aren't stuck with the white balance used in the jpeg. The DIGIC processor in your Canon camera does quite a bit to generate the jpeg, and you don't have any way to undo that processing. With RAW, you have some conrtol over the saturation, tint, shadows, etc. Much more freedom than a jpg gives you.

In photoshop you can apply a "photo filter" to help get your white balance back to where it should be, but that's one more step and it isn't always perfect. Having the RAW file, you can play around with all of the different white balance settings and see which looks best. There's a lot more, too, but for me the white balance is one of the most useful parts, along with adjusting the exposure. It took me a week or two to get used to it, and I have used RAW on every picture since. Even thought the files are much larger, it's worth it.

No one has mentioned a ND grad filters, a must (IMO) for landscape photography, Cokin do a set, are cheap and cheerful, but do the job, if you are getting a wideangle lens, make sure you get the P series, the A series are too small.
Also, buy yourself a hot shoe mount spirit level (around £10 from jessops), worth their weight in gold.
Some UK landscapes in my gallery if you are interested.

Les
http://lesmclean.photo​blink.com/

Hi, You mentioned the P and A lens. I was only aware of the EF-S lens that I was thinking of buying.

Love the photos in your gallery.

Can this spirt level devise be mounted on any existing tripod?

Cheers

Hi Syburn, the P and A referred to the size of filter (not the lens), Cokin are square filters and slot in rather than screw on.

http://www.firstcall-photographic.co.uk …sories/Cokin_Fi​lters.html

The spirit level is made to fit a hot shoe, won't fit a tripod, although some tripods have built in spirit levels, I don't find them much use, especially if you are using a ball head.#

Hope this helps

Les