Archive for May 7th, 2009

Photographing Contrast

Thursday, May 7th, 2009

Taking photographs of high contrast landscape scenes can be a bit problematic.  Generally, you have to give up something - wash out the sky, or dramatically underexpose the foreground.  These are the choices I recently had to make.  It would have helped if I had a graduated Neutral Density (ND) filter…

Here is a sunset shot.  I really wanted to capture the amazing colour  in the sky, so underexposing the foreground was the only choice.  But, I happen to like the silhouette look that results - it makes the image a little more dramatic.

Photography Contrast Sunset

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