Wide Angle Landscape

Here is an example for the first weeks lesson assignment. This is a wide angle landscape image from Great Falls National Park in Virginia.

 

I shot this with a D300 (aps crop sensor) and used a 12-24mm wide angle lens. Notice the sweeping perspective created by using this lens at its widest setting.

 

In order for these wide angle landscape to work well, you need to get in close to your foreground. For this image I choose the rock as a great foreground and positioned the lens within 2 feet of it. This creates what is known as a near/far composition. This image works well also because of the dramatic clouds at sunset. If the sky would have been clear, this image would not be nearly as strong and I would have need to consider shooting a completely different composition with much less sky in the shot.

 

Technical details:

Nikon D300

Nikon 12-24mm f4

Singh Ray 3 stop ND grad hard edge

raw capture at ISO 100

2 seconds at f16

 

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