 Manish Issar |
landscape photo grainy and light I have taken this picture using canon EOS rebel K2. I had used a circular polarized filter pointing 90° to the sun light while taking this shot thinking the sky would turnout a deep blue sky with clouds in the background. I used the auto function in the landscape mode. I turned the filter till a point where the clouds turned dark and visible in the sky. Am I doing the incorrect way. The film was Kodak 800. I believe that the grains in the photo are due to the high speed film. Can someone suggest why it happened this way. Is it a problem of the settings or the camera which I just bought 3-4 months ago. Thanks Manish
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John P. Sandstedt |
I viewed your picture a long time; it confirmed the difficulty many of us have in assessing images on the computer screen due to low resolution. As such my comments/suggestions below reflect what I think I'm seeing in this picture. I've shot ISO 800 films since they were introduced. I use them, primarily when I've traveled in Europe. This has allowed to go with camera, lens, filters and film only. Since I often have a polarizer on the camera all day, ISO 800 film allows a lot of utility as one goes from bright light outdoors to shaded areas to indoor photography. Obviously, one must remove the filter as appropriate. The strides film makers have made with respect to graininess in the past several years suggests to me the problem isn't with the Kodak 800 film. As to use of the polarizer, make your hand flat, point the thumb at the sun. Rotate your hand on the axis pointing from thumb to the sun. That will be the plane in which you'll achieve the maximum polarization effect. Your image suggests that the polarizer was "a little bit off," as indicated by the fact that the sky on the left side of the picture is slightly deeper than the right. You didn't specify what lens you used; I suspect it was a wide angle, a lens more prone to losing the polarizing effect at the edges of the image. Because the clouds don't jump out at me, at least on the monitor screen, I wonder whether you were wearing snglasses when you made this shot. Often, sunglasses mask the impact of the polarizer when seen through the viewfinder. I've changed sunglasses and even reject wearing them, when I'm trying to achieve polarizing effects. Finally, a comment on the specific image. What is the subject of this image? If your intent was to show fall color which, in the this image isn't at its maximum, I believe you included too much of the sky. If you want to show just the color of the trees in the central portion of the picture, do a heavy crop - left, right and of the sky. This will greatly improve the image. John
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