It's so easy to get a good shot nowadays. Your camera does a lot of things for you. All you have to do is to bring the camera to the right place and get a decent composition (with high MPs, you can even crop them later). I took this shot with the in-camera HDR function, handheld. No graduation filter or post processing. No tripod for bracketing for HDR. It kind of takes fun out of it but saves a lot of time. Not a master piece but decent. (Sony A7, Zeiss 24-70mm FE at 24 mm. f/13, 1/60, ISO 640, not sure how shutter speed and ISO listed if multiple exposures are taken for in-camera HDR)
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A leading path is a classic photography technique that a lot of landscape photography take advantage of. The path in the picture lead your eyes deeply into the picture. This is a cart path on a golf course. From where I took picture to the green is about 200 yards. To compress the distance, I used a zoom lens. I still wanted bokeh both in foreground and background to soften the image. (Nikon D800E, Nikkor 70-200mm 1:2.8 at 200mm, f/3.2, 1/200, ISO = 200)
After waiting for 6 months, I finally got my Nikon 800E. I took the new camera to a local trail and looked for something to take picture of. But there is nothing cool to take picture of. I was looking hard to get something out of nothing. Out of many pictures I took during this 10-minute trip to the local trail, this picture kind of popped out. I was looking upward trying hard to look for "something". I made sure that the trees cover the entire frame. I wanted to have many curves, vertical/horizontal/oblique lines by the branches. I also wanted the sun to be in the picture so that there is some contrast and rays of the light in the picture. One thing you have to make sure when you are shooting into the sun is to adjust your exposure compensation to brighten the image. For this one I used "+1". If you use "Auto" mode, the camera automatically adjust to the brightness of the sun and makes the rest of the picture too dark. I used the "program auto", so that I could adjust the exposure. (Nikon D800E, Nikkor 24-70mm at 24 mm, f/7.1, 1/200, handheld, "+1" exposure, ISO = 200, JPEG, Program Auto) This is a par 3, hole #4 at Wildflower C.C. I took this with my wide angle lens. I kept the aperture small to increase the depth of field and captured something from near (wildflowers) and far (clouds). This looks like a painting but I didn't do any post production adjustments. I set my camera to the "landscape" mode (more vivid than standard) and cranked up on my polarizing filter to sharpen clouds, and eliminate the glare on the pond. (Nikon D7000, Tokina 11-16 mm f/2.8 lens at 12 mm, 1/250, f/8, circular polarizer, ISO = 100, no tripod)
There are a lot of things that are rustic in Salado, Tx. This is a cheese and wine store/restaurant. They have their winery and you can pick one of 4 or 5 wines with your choice of cheese. It's a nice place to spend your Sunday afternoon. Their door was kind of cool and color was awesome. The X-PRO1 gives and retains colors so well. I did little cropping to frame it better. (Fuji X-PRO1, Fujinon XF35mmf1.4R, 1/280, f/1.4, Velvia mode)
Finally, wildflower season in Central Texas. There aren't much to take pictures of in Central Texas except for this time of year when wildflowers are everywhere. Paint brush and blue bonnet are common ones seen around my house. This was taken in Temple, Texas where I live. The place looks like a fairway of a golf course filled with wildflowers. I find so hard to take a good picture of wildflowers. It's really technically difficult to take a good wildflower field picture. Here, I got very close to the flowers near me to show some details of the flowers. But, if the depth of field is too large, the picture can become too busy, so I narrowed the depth of field (larger aperture) and made the top half blurry and not disturbing. If I make the aperture too large then the picture looks like a miniature picture. I also lower the angle of view by getting low on the ground to take this picture. Our eye level is boring when I take pictures. When I get lower, I can capture more flowers in one shot and the flower bed looks denser. (Nikon D7000, Nikkor 28-70mm at 70mm, 1/500 f/5.6, taken in JPEG, program auto, landscape mode, WB sunlight, ISO 100, Hoya UV filter)
Riverwalk is in San Antonio, Tx. Lots of restaurants and bars are below the street level. I took this picture from the Riverwalk level and looking up the building (Nix Hospital). The sun is shining only on the building but I can still see Riverwalk underneath the bridge, leading your eyes deeper. But, the best thing about this picture is that the old couple on the bridge looking down Riverwalk and watching people walk by. What do you think their conversation is like? (Nikon D7000, Tokina 11-16mm at 11mm, 1/60 f/3.5)
Taken in Bandera, Texas. It's so 2-D. Everything is in one plane, so it looks like a painting. Love the colors of the background, but still wanted some green in the leafs instead of making everything in the foreground black. (Nikon D7000, Nikkor 18-200mm at 35mm, 1/50 f/5, JPEG, Vivid)
I took this pic at Hamilton Pool, about 30 minutes west of Austin. I wish I had my graduated filter and/or tripod. The sunny side of the picture is overexposed. It would've been so good if I had my graduated filter to block the upper right side. I could've also done HDR. Well, this picture at least emphasizes the indoor/outdoor feel of the pool, which is the most amazing thing about Hamilton Pool. (Nikon D7000, Tokina 11-16mm at 14mm. 1/50 at f/10, no filter, taken in Vivid mode)
This was taken at the Gin in Belton, Tx. Of course the focus is on the boot. I took this with the exposure adjustment down to -0.7 (Nikon D90, Nikkor 18-200mm at 90mm, 1/200 f/13)
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