Comments on: El Nido – Photos http://lawrenceripsher.com/blog/2007/03/el_nido_photos.html Photos, Reviews, Instruction Sat, 04 Feb 2012 22:11:47 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2 By: J. Koch http://lawrenceripsher.com/blog/2007/03/el_nido_photos.html/comment-page-1#comment-364 J. Koch Thu, 15 Mar 2007 08:59:20 +0000 http://lawrenceripsher.com/2007/03/el_nido_photos.html#comment-364 <p>How in heavens name did you get such dymanmic range with the sunset or sea and sky pictures? Did you use a polarizing or graduated filter? Or did you work with film?</p> <p>My shots are always terrible: either the sea or sky are under or over exposed, except on a foggy day when the IQ is fuzzy anyway. Even jiggering with Photoshop fails to provide balance or convey the contrasts right.</p> <p>Naive question: did any digital camera manufacturer ever market a built in digital version of a graduated neutral density filter? Somehow, the multi-point light adjustment mechanisms seem to fall short in handling shots where there is contrast between sky and land or water.</p> How in heavens name did you get such dymanmic range with the sunset or sea and sky pictures? Did you use a polarizing or graduated filter? Or did you work with film?

My shots are always terrible: either the sea or sky are under or over exposed, except on a foggy day when the IQ is fuzzy anyway. Even jiggering with Photoshop fails to provide balance or convey the contrasts right.

Naive question: did any digital camera manufacturer ever market a built in digital version of a graduated neutral density filter? Somehow, the multi-point light adjustment mechanisms seem to fall short in handling shots where there is contrast between sky and land or water.

]]> By: Craig Persel http://lawrenceripsher.com/blog/2007/03/el_nido_photos.html/comment-page-1#comment-363 Craig Persel Tue, 06 Mar 2007 06:59:16 +0000 http://lawrenceripsher.com/2007/03/el_nido_photos.html#comment-363 <p>Some classic images. :-)</p> Some classic images. :-)

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