Landscape Escape

[ebetmagpantay]

Catching Fire

Its been a while since i posted some shots... anyhow

This shot was taken in one of the thousand islands in the Philippines. together with my photographer friends, we stared at awe and fire our triggers away for this beautiful sunset.

[Jediboy]

Great photo. You're right, it's a beautiful sunset.
Well compared photo, I like the way the rock features leads into the photo. The people are a little distracting but nothing major.
As always, just my observations.

[DigiDiva]

Lovelycomposition with the rocks leading the eye in. Well balanced, lovely reflection but I would have been tempted tocrop to cut out the people and the sky in the top RH corner.

[aloid]

Originally Posted by ebetmagpantay

you'll just need proper equipment like high iso cameras and a decent lens with a f/2.8 aperture opening.

thanks for viewing

Hi. Ebet is correct, an aperture of f2.8 is fine. Another advice would be to increase your camera's ISO to 1600 and shutter speed of about 20-30msec. Mount your camera on a tripod, use a wide-angle lens and focus manually. You will have to sacrifice the PQ with the high ISO and the slight trailing of the stars, but your photos will look fine. You might even see the Milky Way!

[ebetmagpantay]

Originally Posted by Jediboy

Great photo. You're right, it's a beautiful sunset.
Well compared photo, I like the way the rock features leads into the photo. The people are a little distracting but nothing major.
As always, just my observations.

Thanks Jediboy , unfortunately, the other campers were also there to watch that beautiful sunset, and they just left the place when it was already dark, so we no choice but to take the shot even though they are in the frame.

Thanks!

[ebetmagpantay]

Originally Posted by DigiDiva

Lovelycomposition with the rocks leading the eye in. Well balanced, lovely reflection but I would have been tempted tocrop to cut out the people and the sky in the top RH corner.

Thanks for appreciating DigiDiva .

We cant do anything about the other campers so we have to include them in the frame .

As one of my mentors have taught us, sometimes human presence adds scale to the background so we can see how "grand" the scene is . But also sometimes the heavy presence of humans can be clutter to the eyes of the viewer

Thanks for viewing!

[ebetmagpantay]

Originally Posted by aloid

Hi. Ebet is correct, an aperture of f2.8 is fine. Another advice would be to increase your camera's ISO to 1600 and shutter speed of about 20-30msec. Mount your camera on a tripod, use a wide-angle lens and focus manually. You will have to sacrifice the PQ with the high ISO and the slight trailing of the stars, but your photos will look fine. You might even see the Milky Way!

I agree! aloid! .

Thanks for the additional inputs!

[ebetmagpantay]

Golden Mangroves

This shot is an long exposure Near Infrared shot in one of the coves in the Philippines that is a sanctuary for mangroves. Being a country with a long coastline, the mangroves help protect erosion of the soil and sand in the coastlines and are also habitats and an important specie in the ecosystem

[karenoliver]

Love the infrared, works really well for this shot.

Karen

[ebetmagpantay]

Originally Posted by karenoliver

Love the infrared, works really well for this shot.

Karen

Thanks for appreciating near - IR shots Karen : )