Black and White Photography

Black and White Photography
1.Find a location.
It can takes for months to find a great location, i go back to the same location many times before I get lucky to encounter great light and everything connects perfectly. Sometimes it just happens and you will be able to walk into a great place where light , contrast and composition are perfect, most of the times you will have to go back, even in you are experienced photographer you will go back to the same location to improve the landscape you see.
 

2.Specific point of view.
Finding location is first step, you have to find specific point from where you will be taking your image. This is much more complicated then just pointing the camera and hoping for the best. The specific point of view is critical for your composition. It i this one and only point where your camera will be set before you press the button, this is the point from where all the elements are place in right position, where all the shapes and forms of threes, mountains, lakes, ocean, rocks  are connected. It is very hard to find this point and you have to learn and practice before you will be able to find it fast and effective. but remember landscape photography is not about fast and rushing, if you think you like the pressure and rushing you should go into journalism or documentary photography.

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Highlight Clipping

There are several ways to address and deal with circumstances highlight clipping, including:

• check the histogram, check whether the area is too bright to right so that over-exposure?
• when viewing the photos in the camera, turn on the feature 'highlight clipping indicator' so that the white area that suffered washout will be marked by the camera in the form of blinking
• not all that bright areas of washout was considered failed, if the experience is not an object image washout important then just ignore it
• but when the light of the washout area is an important area in the photo, the photo needs to be repeated
• when the camera is often experienced clipping in high contrast areas, can lower the komponsasi exposure to -1 / 3 so that the images will be 1 / 3 stop darker (darker images will create more shadow detail in dark areas)
• certain cameras (like the EOS 550) had a highlight tone priority feature, the feature can be activated when we frequently shooting a white object in order to keep the details

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Nikon D5100

Nikon D5100 16.2 megapixel sensor is known to have an LCD screen and adjustable, continuous auto-focus in movie mode, max ISO 25,600, and the new Special Effects mode with four filters that work well for taking still images and video / film.
Nikon D5100 is the latest series of the D5000 is the first Nikon digital SLR cameras with LCD screens folding.
A new feature in the D5100 is largely aimed at users who want to record video / movies with their DSLR. The camera is capable of capturing movies at a resolution of 1080p and 720p at 24 or 30 fps. LCD screen 3-inch size, with 921,000-dot density can be flipped out and tilted up to 170 degrees, which can be used in movie mode and Live View. Special Effect mode the camera gives users four filters that can be applied to the film and still images: Selective Color, Color Sketch, tilt-shift effect, and Night Vision, which increases the ISO to 102 400.
D5100 has the ability to auto focus on the continuous mode, a feature film which debuted in the D3100's. One of the known weaknesses of this feature is that it produces a loud noise being picked up by microphones on-camera. To help overcome this problem even with additional costs to consumers, Nikon released a new external microphone called the ME-1 which correspond to the camera hot shoe mount and plugs into the mic input port. It is designed to compensate for most of the noise created by the auto-focus lens. Microphone ME-1 will be sold separately starting in April at a price of $ 180.

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Canon EOS 60D

The EOS Canon 60D offers a range of high-end features – the 18MP CMOS sensor that delivers great images, a 3:2 aspect ratio vari-angle 3in screen with an impressive resolution, refined and logical handling characteristics, and robust aluminum construction.

For the action photographer, the spec may look a little conservative, with only 5.3fps and a 9-point AF system. It would be nice to see a slightly faster frame rate, but that said, we still manages to capture a decent amount of our golfer’s swing, and it will carry on shooting for 50 consecutive JPEG shots before the buffer slow down, while 16 RAW files are achievable at the same rate.

The AF points are laid out in a diamond formation, with quite a bias to the centre of the frame. All the AF points are cross-type, and in Al Servo mode (Canon’s term for Continuous AF), the 60D performed very well – tracking the horses as they came down the course, allowing us to fire off a series of pin-sharp shots.

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