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techniques for landscape Photography
III - Knowing what you need to do
One very important thing when you have a fully loaded gear is to know which knob to
turn and what you could adjust to achieve the final shot. Here is a snapshot of the key
things that I personally would familiarize myself for each and every setup that I carry.
IV - Placement and Framing
On the Ground, the first thing that I did was to find the best placement of the whole setup on the beach area close to the
rocks that are on the edges. As the beach is not sloping as gradual as I would like it to be, I had to place one of the tripod
legs on the sand floor IN THE WATER!!! Well, I had to do this to achieve the right distance from the rocks.
The risk that I had while taking the shot was the eroding sand underneath the tripod leg as the waves
beat the beach. I had to also be careful at the low position to avoid splashes or droplets onto the front
of the filter.
To make the Image balanced, I decided to compose the image into three portion:
a) The foreground Rocks (1/3)
b) Reflective color of the sky on water (1/3)
c) The Horizon and the sky (1/3)
The Setup is quite "chunky & bulky" but well, that's the minimal setup I would recommend for the shot. Getting used
to the setup and getting very familiar to it is important. As we can see above, there are mainly three things EXTERNAL
to the camera that we need to be "fluent" with to assist us in getting the desired composition. It used to take me about
2 minutes in the past to make adjustments in the past, but due to frequent use of my setup, I can manage in about
30 seconds now.
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