应朋友们的要求,决定写一个《镜头背后》系列。 作为一个全职工作的孩子妈外加风光摄影的爱好,没有多少自由的时间,只能是有时间就写发,请谅解。 如果大家有特别的问题想我写的,可以给我Email: lelema66@yahoo.com。 我不是常来wxc,有可能悄悄话不会及时回复。
这篇的英文是现成的,发布在《Outdoor Photographer: Behind the Shot》上的。
With all the warm weather we had this winter, not having much needed rain, I noticed Calla Lily at Big Sur blooming earlier in March 2013. After I had seen a few pictures, I knew I had to pay a visit ASAP, the flowers were probably past prime time. The day was the only day I could get out of work earlier, but the weather was not cooperating… No clouds could be spotted from the coast. I debated a few minutes, decided to give it a shot. Well, sometimes we need to trust our own intuition. It turned out it was some of the best light I had ever seen in the Big Sur area.
I arrived around 4 in the afternoon, there was nobody around, the flowers were just passing their prime, so it was not so bad. The flowers were beautiful but surrounded with poison oak. To find a good spot to set up a tripod was a challenge. I would have liked a close-up calla lily as foreground, but also wanted to photograph masses that could make a bank of flowers look as if they go on forever. As a consequence, I needed to pay a lot of attention to every detail I saw in the viewfinder because it would have a huge impact on the overall look. I took some time to look around and went to the flowers that attracted me most and placed my tripod carefully away from the poison oak.
I began to try different compositions and picked the one I liked most, then manually I focused the lens on the flowers first. It was a windy day. To shoot the flowers in focus was not an easy job.
The sky is as important as the flower, it definitely enhanced the whole image. After I got a sharp foreground picture, I used two different exposures to shoot the mountain and sky, no filter used. This image was made from three exposures that have been blended together via Photoshop CS6.Equipment and Setting: Nikon D800E, Nikkor AF-S NIKKOR 14-24mm f/2.8G ED zoom lens. Gitzo GT2541 Mountaineer 6x carbon fiber tripod, Really Right Stuff BH-55 ballhead – Three exposures at 1/8th, 1/20th, and 1/80th shutter speeds, f/8.0, ISO 50
最近我去了趟Oregon也是拍野花,和上面的马蹄莲同样的用了景深合成 (focus stacking)的方法。
景深就是画面清楚的范围。 这几张的前面的花离人很近,景深会很浅。即使是用小光圈也不太可能把前景的花和后面的山都拍得很清楚。 一般拍野花的地方风都很大,花左右摇曳非常美,但要把花拍清楚就是挑战了。 再说用小光圈拍前面的花意味着高ISO,这也是我们需要避免的。
用“景深合成”的方法就可以做到全景深都清晰无比。这个方法主要是改变对焦距离多拍几张,然后后期合成最后就会得到一张全景深的照片。 后期我是用photoshop合成但细节不行,最后还是要自己一点一点用蒙版把虚的部分插掉。 云师推荐了Helicon 据说非常好用,但我自己没有用过。 如果拍微距的话,用Helicon合成会非常省事。
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