Spain - A little help required

Trotter

Hi all,

I'm on a quick visit to Spain and Im lucky enough for the weather to be spectacular and the scenery is amazing.

I've the D60 with me with the 18-55 and 55-200vr lenses. Heres a couple that I took this morning, but I'd really like some recommendations on settings that might bring out the different colours of the landscape before the rain arrives! Theres lots of glowing white houses that arent appearing so vibrant in the photos.

Heres what I can see from my balcony.. 33 quid a night by the way and flights were cheap for 3 days. Ripoff Ireland lives on.

CabanSail

I can't see the images as they are blocked at work

Do you have a Polarising Filter? If you are lucky enough to have Blue Skies it will help to give a lot more depth to the skies.

Are you shooting RAW? The images straight out of the camera will often look quite flat until you get to process them later. If you have the RAW files then you have a lot more scope to edit the images.

quilmore

only slightly better
a polarizer can do miracles, try to get one

quilmore

shot raw and when back home download a landscape picture control for capture NX
that and a polarizer are a killer

Dragan

What is that valley like at night time, or just leading into dusk? Some long exposure stuff could be very, very nice and there is a lot more ambient light around that the human eye pics up, but a couple of second at a decent ISO can work wonders.

Trotter

I shot it in JPEG to have plenty of space on the card. I don't have any decent processing software to play with RAW images.

Im only just here today so I'll play with it again at dusk, which isnt far away.

I'll change the settings to RAW from now on. What exactly is a polarizer?

quilmore

Trotter wrote: »

What exactly is a polarizer?

it's a filter
a piece of glass you screw to the front of the camera

Trotter

quilmore wrote: »

it's a filter
a piece of glass you screw to the front of the camera

Oh I have one of these to protect the lens. Is it the same thing?

Hama UV Filter UV-390 (O-Haze) - 52mm

Pigwidgeon

nah they're different, there are loads of different filters you can get, including polarizers and UV ones.

*Paula*

hi Trotter,

A polarizer is a filter that is effectively the same as your sunglasses. It reduces the amount of light going into your camera, so it's great on sunny day's to deepen blue skies, reduce glare (e.g. reflected on water). Generally it makes outdoor shots more punchy. (see polarizer section here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Photographic_filter)

I highly recommend getting one especially if you're into travel photography.

Paula

Hugh_C

CabanSail wrote: »

Do you have a Polarising Filter?

I really should give you your one back Tony, maybe at DCC exhibition. It has only been 6 months




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CabanSail

You are OK Hugh. I know where it is & at least it's being used & not collecting dust.

Trotter

Thanks everyone! Would a polariser be useful on Safari?

Here's a few shots across the lake when it was getting dark. Its the first time I messed with the shutter speeds at night. I've lots to learn.