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please take a look at my picture description and then maybe someone can do me a favour. Before one of you lot take one of these extrodinary foto's, can you just put the camera on full auto, and take a 'snap' of the pic your about to take and put a link on this thread to both. I'm so fed up with the results from my recent trip and would love to know what went wrong, and should I have gone out when the sun was at its lowest?
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Pat
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Pat, generally to create good landscape shots you need to use ND Grads to balance the exposure and maybe a polariser to make the sky standout.. My failed attempts at landscapes shots also left me fairly disheartened so led me to study this site for clues and also read a couple of books.. Aside from good framing, in my opinion good landscapes need ND Grads usually, polariser probably and great natural light mostly in early morning or early evening. Although I am very much a beginner 
You will get there eventually and so will I I hope! HTH.
A 28mm on a 1.6 crop DSLR is like a 45mm on a film SLR - i.e. pretty well a standard lens. You need to get down to 17 or 18mm for a wide shot.
ND = neutral density... think of it like sunglasses for cameras! But they are shaded from deepish grey at the top to clear at the bottom.
OK, cool, so, erm, what is ND grads, and do I need wider than my 28-105? It seems that on a digi slr with a 28 you dont get enough in????
Also, carabosse, your soooooo right, I tried flowers/portraits etc, and although I appreciate theyre not fantastic, I was quite pleased, but the landscapes, Grrrrrr, and go see Sue's, was the best one on her lovely little Iuxus II (or whatever its called)
The Techniques section is often overlooked on here.
I've suggested in the past that its profile ought to be raised. Also a lot of it has a slightly dated feel to it - as if digital photography has not yet been invented.
Nevertheless it's a good starting point.
Things I have put up with to take landscapes
washed into the sea
permanently wet/cold feet
the horizon moving between taking the shot and getting the film developed
sleeplessness
terminal boredom
getting marooned by the tide
spending a mortgageable amount on filters
dog walkers
any walkers in bright red anoraks
inane questions about what you are doing
advice from anyone with a compact digital
speeding tickets(to catch the light before it disappeared)
the permanent feeling you are in the wrong place at the wrong time
aggressive sheep
permanent backache
love it!!
steve
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