And like so many other disappointed customers I too find it very strange that first Google buys this product and then decides to stop further development. The Nik Control Points feature was and still is my main processing tool. In terms of software my preferred set is Photoshop CC and the Nik Collection add-in from Google: Dfine, Viveza, Color Efex Pro, Sharpener Pro. Ironically, while the landscape shot does not look similar to how you see it, the amount of data stored in the digital RAW file does enable you to bring back the colours, highlights and shadows as you think they were at the time of shooting (or not, as some image editors do, but I’ll leave the photography ‘art vs reality’ discussion for now…). Modern sensors and supporting imaging software still lack the ability to transform shots taken into something that comes very close to our perceived reality of the world. processing after the shot is taken, is almost always a must. Let’s try another Banff classic: the Valley of the Ten Peaks: However I would now resort to simply stacking multiple shots with varying exposures and import into Photoshop CC for further processing. In the early days I was shooting with both a circular polariser together with Lee graduated neutral density filters. The Nikon 16-35mm wide angle zoomlens gives you a pretty good range for your landscape requirements: it’s a little soft at either end but between around 18 and 30 mm it will produce excellent sharp images, and unlike the much pricier 12-24 mm f/2.8, it holds standard-sized filters, whereas in case of the the 12-24 mm you’ll be looking for very exotic (and pricy) filter alternatives. The first image is arguably the most classic one from Banff National Park, Alberta, Canada: Lake Louise. Therefore it’s not not a big surprise that much of the image post-processing tutorials you find on the Web practise with landscape images. And once you’ve managed to capture what you think isn’t too bad, your image will look quite different from what you’ve seen with your own eyes due to the fact that digital camera sensors do not come near the ‘dynamic range’ and quality of our own eyes. Think slow versus fast, very early mornings, ‘golden hours’, sunrises and sunsets, filters, remote triggers, etc. Landscape photography is very different from wildlife photography. What better place in the world to practice your landscape photography than the Canadian Rockies! Every place there is like some artist’s painting, and provides the opportunity for you to capture it with your expensive little toy.Īctually, capturing these images is just part of the challenge. I was just getting into wildlife photography, I had (just) one DSLR (Nikon D4) and I also took up some landscape photography. Well, I’ve always wanted to pick up my images from an early trip to Canada back in 2011. A long way back I wrote I would do something useful with some of the (tens/hundreds of) thousand images in my archives.
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