I'm really looking forward to learning about photographing landscapes. I want to know if I can get better images with the camera and lens I have or whether I need to invest in a different lens - one with a greater zoom presumably.
Yesterday I was in Sussex; it was a beautiful day and the trees looked glorious with their golden , scarlet, tangerine leaves. I was north of the South Downs and the challenge was to take a photograph with the hills in the background but having the sun shining very brightly in front of me. My main frustration with all the landscape photos I've taken is that I can't get the clarity I want - everything in crisp focus. The other frustration, and I think there may be little solution to this, is having to decide whether to have a completely washed out sky, or render the foreground much darker than it really was, like so:
Here's one with a washed-out sky:
Photos don't come out too well on the blog and I've used up all my free uploads on flickr so you can't really judge the quality of these. There are animals in the middle of the picture below - cows, I think, but you can't even recognize them because they're fuzzy, so I'm very dissatisfied with my results.
Now I want to put on two photos I am satisfied with. As I didn't plan it out in advance I'll have to start a new blog...
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