A Nikon reveals two or three things behind shooting a large landscape film.

Nikon camera is a must for many photographers to travel, so how to use Nikon camera to take a big picture? Below, I will fully reveal the two or three things behind shooting a scenic blockbuster for you!

Teacher Yaner is a very famous landscape photographer on the Internet. Her works are sometimes magnificent, sometimes quiet and gentle, and the treatment of light and color is just right. Now Teacher Yan Er briefly introduces her shooting skills and answers questions from netizens.

I live in northern California, USA. First my mother and my wife, then the code farmer, and finally the photographer. I like outdoor activities, especially wading through mountains and rivers. I bought a camera to take pictures of my children, but I fell in love with landscape photography. I will slowly share the story behind my lens here, as well as the stories behind other photographers' lenses.

The story behind the photographer's camera

I began to like landscape photography from 20 10, and there are some photos I like in the past five years. Unless otherwise specified, the following photos are all taken with bare-metal Nikon D800E and Nikon 14-24mm lens, and the white balance is automatic. If sharpening is needed, it will be finished at the end.

atmosphere

This was taken on a beautiful morning in Big Sur, California. Actually, I'm going to shoot the Milky Way. The foreground is fog that permeates the valley, but the fog is not high enough. It was really unintentional, and I met such a beautiful scenery on the way down the mountain. F22, 0.5 seconds, ISO50, take three photos with different exposures by surrounding exposure, and finally manually brush out the desired part with layer mask in Photoshop. In order to have a hazy effect, the Orton effect was used later. There are many tutorials about this effect on the internet, just search them. If you have a plug-in for Nik, you can also use the soft focus effect. The red leaves in front are poison ivy. It looks beautiful, but it can't be touched.

infinite

Taken in Lofton, Norway, on a snowy morning in March, I was waiting alone in the snow. F 1 1,10 seconds, ISO50 was exposed twice, and there was a thin layer of ice on the water in the morning. The mist on the snowy mountain was stained by the rising sun, and the color was not very strong or light. Later, the curve was basically drawn, and no other debugging was needed at all, that is, the color of nature.

Taken in the beautiful Rocky Mountains. It has been raining, and I have been hesitating whether to go up the mountain alone. Afraid of the danger of going downhill in the dark, I finally left in the rain. The sun broke through the clouds before sunset. Three photos with different exposures were taken by surround exposure, and finally synthesized by layer mask in Photoshop. After the storm, the sky was dark, and so was the water. The colors are mixed together, and the taste is very strong, trying to highlight the Rocky Mountains under the storm. F 1 1，ISO50， 1/20

Dynamic blur filter

Taken in autumn in the mountains of eastern California. This picture has been in my mind for a long time, and I didn't start looking for the early stage until I had the idea of the later stage. Thin fog, breeze blowing, branches swaying from side to side, leaves flying in the wind. A film, F 1 1, ISO50, 0.5, Nikon 70-200 mm focal length, and later used the dynamic blur filter in photoshop, which was more or less blurred and needed a little attempt. Color pulls the curve and adjusts the contrast. Colored leaves are finely tuned.

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Taken in Big Sur, California. Nikon 24-70mm 24mm F8 ISO50, exposure for 30 seconds. Lee's filter plug for foreground 30-second exposure. The sky behind is beautiful. Bare metal exposure is110 seconds to show its details. Later, in photoshop, the water mist was cool and the others were warm.

This is a photo. There is a detailed introduction in the magnificent secret senior photographer to talk to you about landscape photography. This is my favorite one, because a person climbs a mountain in the dark and waits for the sunrise, which is very rewarding.

If you use a filter, it is much easier to take a big picture than to take a picture. Take multiple photos in a row, and finally take one in photoshop. If I don't use a filter, I usually take pictures around each frame after exposure. In this way, there is one more process in the later stage. First, we will synthesize around each exposed segment, and then connect these segments.

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I usually overlap about 50% in each photo, and 50% may be too much. This is a personal habit. It's not easy to go out and take pictures, for fear of making mistakes. In fact, the best way is to practice at home and practice your shooting habits.

There are special camera tools. There is a good thing that is really right. I don't have one myself. Maybe I'll buy one. But my tripod head is BH-55, with scale and level. Know how many shots to take before shooting, and then rotate the lens according to the predicted angle to shoot.

Using ultra-wide angle to shoot joints has the problem of radian after synthesis, so generally choose wide angle or sub-wide angle. If you have to use a super wide angle such as 14mm, you can only adjust it manually later, or use commercial software such as PTGUI.

Generally choose wide-angle or sub-wide-angle.

In the later stage, I usually use automatic setting in ps.

This photo has no filter. Surround each exposure first, and then rotate the lens to surround the exposure. The speed must be fast. The last person was photographed alone, and then the person in the mask was brushed out after the post-synthesis patch was completed.

The Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco is often foggy. Due to the special geographical location of the Golden Gate Bridge, warm air is in the shape of rising water vapor source on the hillside, and it is cooled by adiabatic expansion to form fog. But low fog (fog is not high enough to cross the top of the bridge) is rarely encountered. If you meet it for the first time, you can only say that your character is good. This is the most spectacular low fog I have encountered countless times. The fog is rolling, and the most important thing is the moonlight. If you want to show the curve of fog flow, if the exposure time is too long, the fog will lose its fluidity. F5.6, ISO 100, 20 seconds, Nikon24-70mm 35mm. Take a picture of the fog in front of you, a picture of the city behind you, and two pictures are synthesized in photoshop. The effect of depth of field synthesis in photoshop is not very good. You can consider Helicon from Friends. It's good, but I haven't used it and I don't have first-hand information. The fog and white balance in front is changed to night mode, and the white balance in the back city remains unchanged.

Blurred blockbuster

Last Christmas morning, it was filmed in the Santa Cruz Mountains in Northern California. Nikon 18-200mm 185mm, F 1 1, 3 seconds, ISO50. The fog flows very fast, so it won't take long to be exposed. When composing the composition, I specially found a house with Christmas lights on, adding some other elements to the picture to make the finishing touch. In the later stage, I did almost nothing, but improved the brightness of the place where the light shone, and finally sharpened it.

This was taken in beautiful Hawaii last August. The light of the dead tree in front is illuminated by the passing car lights. There is a step in the shooting place that blocks the light under the tree, but it doesn't seem to affect the overall effect. А 300seconds F2.8After sunset, ISO3200 galaxy 300seconds F2.8White balance is set to night vision mode, Later, a curve was drawn, and the contrast was.

Large aperture wide angle lens

Equipment: Wide-angle lens with large aperture is the best. Preferably between F 1.4 and F2.8, a stable tripod. A good App can know the location of the Milky Way in advance (this is unnecessary, I am useless). Cable release, flashlight, this can be used not only to explore the road at night, but also to illuminate the foreground. I seldom do it myself and have no experience in this field.