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Show Notes for Episode #38: All Kinds of Tips Ft. Jason Eldridge

"Be deliberate with your shots. Try to imagine it in your head before you take the photograph. When you do take it, you can look at it and say 'Yes, that's what I wanted' before you move on."

Episode 38 – Jason Eldridge – All kinds of Tips


Tips for Landscape Photography: Mountain Streams

- Get a GOOD tripod

- Don’t set up your tripod straight out of the car, scope things out first to see where you might want to set up – plan, and be deliberate about your shots

- Use a remote release to reduce camera shake

- Use long exposures for water/stream shots

o 1/6 s to 3 s – longer will lose detail in the water

- Shoot early morning or late evening, bright sunlight on the water will blow out the shot

- Always use a Polarizer – it will remove the glare from vegetation, water, and wet rocks

o Use “Live View” and dial in the polarizer until things look the way you want them to

- Try to keep the sky out of the scene – it will draw the eye away from your true subject

- Do “Border Patrol” – check the edges of your frame for distractions

Jason’s Usual Settings:

§ aperture priority with exposure compensation at -1.5 to -1.7

§ F16, ISO 100

Tips for Landscape Photography: Everglades

- Be COMFORTABLE. Heat, bugs, and dehydration are big distractions. Dress appropriately, wear a bug suit/jacket, drink plenty of water.

- GET OFF THE ROAD. The most interesting parts of the Everglades cannot be seen from the road.

- Be willing to walk into the grass and get wet.

- The first time you’re out, go with a guide.

- You have to work much harder here (than in the mountains) to get a good shot. It really makes you a better photographer, you need to think more about background/middle ground/foreground and creating a good composition.

- “Be deliberate. Try to imagine it in your head before you take the photograph. Then when you look at your image, you can say ‘yes, that’s what I wanted’ before you move on.”

- Don’t always go wide. Pull out vignettes of the landscape, create “intimate landscapes”.

Tips for Photographing Lightning

- Before you set out for the day check the weather apps. – you won’t always be able to get a signal in the Everglades.

- You’ll need raingear!

- Once you’re out, watch the directions the storms are headed and try to get ahead of them.

- Set up a good composition and HOPE that lightning strikes where you have your camera pointed.

- Use a ‘Lightning Trigger’ (Lightning Bug for Canon ) (Lightning Bug for Nikon)

o No software needed, plugs into the same port as remote release

o As lightning flashes, it picks up on the flash and activates the shutter

- Getting images of lightning at night is a little easier.

o Set up for a long exposure (30s)

o Use a wider aperture

Tips for Photographing the Night Sky

- You need a good tripod and remote release

- Use a wide lens and a wide aperture – the more light you can let in, the better, and the less you will need to raise your ISO – this will help you to reduce noise

- For images of pinpoint stars, use ISO 3200 and 20s exposure

- Longer exposure time will create star trails

- Can also set everything up for 20s exposures and lock down the trigger to continue cycling through for multiple shots – these can be stitched together later in photoshop to create a time lapse, or they can be stacked and blended to create star trails

Tips for Photographing Aircraft

- Spend time with aircraft at air shows – airports are too difficult

- Can be difficult because of bright afternoon light.

- Zoom in for details.

- Practice panning – you might get 2 good shots out of 40 for flying aircraft.

- Jets, because they’re fast, can use a fast shutter speed; Prop planes need a slower shutter to capture the spinning prop (slower than 250 with a small F-stop)– otherwise it looks like a toy hanging in the sky

Tips for Becoming a Better Photographer

- Find a photo community

o Get involved, go to the monthly meetings, someone there will always know something that you don’t – learn from them.

- Let others critique your work

o It’s difficult, but you need to be open and accept the critique

o Try not to get defensive, learn from what others are seeing, they’re trying to give you tips on how to make it better

- Sign up and participate in workshops!

- GET OFF THE COUCH!

o “You’ll always be able to find an excuse not to go. You know what kind of photographs you’ll get if you don’t go, but you never know what you might capture if you do.”

Equipment

- Landscape photography doesn’t require a lot of equipment: go for a good lens and a good tripod – the camera body can be easily switched out.

o Nikon 5000 series or upper end Canon Rebel series are good places to start

Book mentioned: John Shaw's Nature Photography Field Guide

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