Showing posts with label D200. Show all posts
Showing posts with label D200. Show all posts

Monday 28 April 2008

Interval shooting and HDR photography

Mediterranean landscape at dawn time
First lights on the Mediterranean coast

With springtime, the sun is rising more and more soon every week and shooting seascapes at dawn time is more and more difficult. One day of the past week, i left home at 5am, drove to the Bau Rouge and walked to my favorite place while the sun was just shining. Arrived on the place, i realised that i had left my remote controler at home ...
Remote controler is a nice tool and a good help for long exposures but if you don't have one it can often be replaced by the camera self timer. When you have to shoot serveral long exposures to build a HDR image, the remote controler is really a must : No camera shake means sharp and easy to align images.
So i was very annoyed to have forgotten mine when i remembered that my D200 had an interval shooting function. In this mode, the camera can take n images every x minutes. If you also define a bracketing program, the camera will execute this bracketing program at each interval.
So i put the D200 on the tripod, locked every thing, programmed the camera and ... it perfectly worked : without touching the body, i obtained 7 exposures with 1 IL increment.

With their large bracketing and very fast shooting capabilities, recent Nikon DSLRs are very nice HDR tools. With the interval mode you can perharps save the money of a remote controler and save your day when you left your bed too soon.

Tuesday 24 April 2007

About my Nikon cameras

landscape photography
I have owned (and still own some) many cameras of many brands : Olympus, Minolta, Nikon ...
Today, i almost always use two Nikon DSLRs : Nikon D100 and D200. These cameras seem to be done for fitting my hands, i love their ergonomics where the good thing is always under the good finger. AF is awesome and metering very acurate.

Today for a landscape photographer shooting raw, each camera brand can deliver some very nice files with enough quality to enable very large prints. So my choice is done on ergonomics, reliability and viewfinder. Some people shooting JPEG in low light with high ISO could have other criteria ...
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