Trough the years my camera bag grew out of the joints. With two Nikon D800 bodies and 6 objectives I need to make difficult choises before leaving home for a walk.
Beside the essential prime objectives 28 mm f:1.8, 50mm f:1.8 and the 85mm f:1.8. I use mostly my 24-70 mm f:2.
and my 70-200 f:2.8. Birdwatching needs my 300mm f:4 combined with an 2x extendor.
The Nikon D800 has no presets for landscapes, sport or night photography. The owner needs to understand the camerasettings for the scene in front.
Capturing a beautiful scene is not always easy. The camera doesn’t see what a human eye sees. Lucky you got your brains to think how to pimp that scene. A few tricks can help you in the right direction.
First thing first. You can’t take a sharp picture in dark conditions of a moving subject, even if your camera handle iso value above 200.000. You need light! Imagine your camera as a watertap and the bucket of water your photo. Increasing the pressure on the tap will fill up your bucket faster.
The more you open the tap the more the bucket will be filled. So the water level will be low with a low pressure an a small tap opening. Your photo will be dark or underexposed. On the other way the bucket will overflow when you open the tap fully with a maximum pressure. Your picture is overexposed.
Imagine you got a nice balance between opening and pressure, now you can play with the time you open the tap.
To fill a bucket to a wanted level, you need to play with the pressure, the opening and the time.
In photography you play a bit the same way with the iso sensitivity, the diafragma opening and the exposure time.
And remember… buckets are as different as scenery’s!. Techniques also…
In followin’ subpages some tip and tricks will be explained.