Makes scenery more delicate: gradual change lens + reduce light lens

The lens concentrating on the beach, to present the wonderful coastlines, canvas prints using slow door techniques shooting seascape, a perennial waves under the effect of slow or unreal dream such as sea of clouds, fog or curing for continuous strips, can let some prosaic scenes look a lot more fun, such a scene will need to use to the device - filters, clever use of several commonly used filter introduces below.

Dim mirror, slow down anytime, anywhere

To the market in the commonly used specifications of gray mirror: ND8, ND16, ND32, ND64, ND400, ND1000, respectively corresponding to reduce exposure series for: 3, 4, 5, 6, 8.5, 10. For sale on the market of the lens according to the shape, canvas prints online the reduction can be divided into round and square insert, in effect, wafer spin on the lens, like the UV mirror and lens tightly bound, almost no light-leaking phenomenon, and the square insert by filter to install in front of the cameras, while convenient installation, replacement, but how many there are always some subtraction between the lens and the lens aperture, long exposure is somewhat light-leaking phenomenon. Also on the market is a special adjustable light lens with a general adjustable range of ND2 -- ND400. In practical use, ND400 and ND1000 because the level of mirror light is relatively high, after installing the lens, it is dark when looking out of the frame window, which will certainly affect your shooting, so in the use of high block lens, you need to arrange the composition in advance, and then screw or insert the lens. Here I recommend some good filter brands, such as B+W, HOYA or gaojian.

Gray gradient mirror in GND is divided into soft gradient and hard gradient. The soft and hard gradient commonly used is 0.6, 0.9 and 1.2. The effect of the gray part of the lens is equivalent to reducing light in 2, 3 and 4 blocks. RGND grey gradient lens, split canvas prints commonly known as reverse gradient, is a special lens. The darkest part of grey is in the area where the black and white of the lens meet. The grey gradually decreases from the middle to the side. The gradient lens also has discs and square inserts. Since the discs have fixed positions on the lens, it is impossible to adjust the areas to be darkened mechanically. It is recommended to use square inserts. In terms of size, if the wide-angle end used is 16-18mm, it is recommended that the gradient lens size should be at least 100X125mm to avoid dark corners or blocking edges. Considering the need of vertical composition, it is better to use a 100x150mm gradient filter.

Clever combination, creative shooting

Sea view slow main is controlling the shutter door, after shooting, the shutter is an element of the exposure, aperture and iso are two other elements, a bit of scenery photography knowledge know pat scenery time circle between F11, F16, ISO100, imaging quality is best, so the aperture and iso these two elements can set up the basic fixed, with the help of the filter set different shutter, let spray under different shutter present different attitude, so, before the shooting to see how good you want the shutter. From my experience shooting seascape slow door, the shutter is fixed at 1/15sec - 1sec, the waves show a silk shape, more than 10 seconds, the waves show a silk floc shape (similar to cotton), more than 30 seconds can be basically atomized.

With pictures several examples to illustrate the use of the ND &gnd, simple this is about 20 minutes after the sun goes down, although still remain sunset red sky, but the sea was very dark, with machine closed to the surface exposure combination for: F16, 30, iso 100, exposure of the skies: F16, 3, iso 100, the sky and the sea more than triple the light contrast, so use 0.9 days sea ray than soft gradient to equilibrium, let the rest of the sunlight exposure, however, let the water under the undead black sand texture.

The secret that makes scenery more delicate: gradual change lens + reduce light lens

Control the shutter speed with ND mirror alone

In such a scene, the light ratio between the sky and the sea is basically balanced, so GND can be avoided, but the shutter should be kept at 1 second to allow the spray to be brushed, and the light exposure combination on site is: F14, 1/8, iso 100, add an ND8, reduce the light by three, the shutter is exactly 1 second.

This is behind the scenes, although the sun fell down, but still has a lot to light than between the sky and the sea, the scene light machine closed surface exposure combination: F16, 1/2, iso 100, sky measured exposure combination is: F16, 1/16, iso 100, four block light contrast between tianhai, so with 1.2 (minus four block light) GND to balance the light of heaven and earth than, in order to let the waves atomization, the shutter at least 30 seconds, six required to reduce block light, then again plus ND64 minus lens, such combination of ND &gnd filters can be the scene according to the desired effect.

Reasonable composition, make good use of the foreground

Composition according to the traditional photographic composition principle, that is, the three-point principle, with the sea level as a reference, pay special attention to the level, because of the habit of looking at the sea, the tilt of the sea level will interfere with the balance of the cerebellum, making people uncomfortable. Whether the sea level should be placed at one third or two thirds depends on the situation. For example, if the outlook is to be highlighted, the outlook should be two thirds. When there is a perfect reflection of sunset or morning clouds, you can break the regular composition. Shooting the sea has its particularity, that is, where the sea perspective is the same, so the prospect becomes very important, has a good prospect is half the success, plus the weather and cloud cooperation, must be a wonderful film.

Know the tides, know the weather

In the summer of the northern hemisphere, there is the ocean monsoon, the days of blue sky and white clouds will be more and more, the air is transparent, the clouds look beautiful, at this time to the seaside whether traveling or shooting, is the best time. In addition, the ocean has its special characteristics, that is, the tide, has a great impact on the sea, such as the use of foreground.

Prepare and shoot carefully

Before shooting, the most important work is to check the spot, the slow door shooting is concentrated in the dawn and dusk, that is to say, at dawn, is to touch the dark past, at dusk, frame for canvas print is to touch the dark back, if you don't step on the point in advance, the past midnight is difficult to find the spot.