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GSpotter
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Join Date: May 2004
Location: A small town near Wolfsburg, Germany
 
2009-10-27, 17:02

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Originally Posted by BuonRotto View Post
I have an appeal to make: please do not over-do your HDR images. I feel like this technique is positively abused. Its original intention was only to better approximate the human eye's dynamic range, now you see all sorts of gaudy images that would make Thomas Kincaid, King of Kitsch blush. Please use it responsibly.
Absolutely! I've seen too many HDRs where the settings were probably maxed out.

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Originally Posted by BuonRotto View Post
... some good advice snipped ...

5. Stop down your aperture to maximize depth of field.

6. Get as wide as possible with the zoom.
Your points are mostly right and a good starting point, but take them as a guideline, not a dogma.

Some additional advice:
- regarding point 5: You have to take diffraction into account, so the best aperture is in most cases somewhere between f11 and f16.

- regarding point 6: Old landscape photographer's rule: "If you don't know how to take a picture of a boring landscape scene: Take a super wide angle and it will suddenly look interesting..." On the other hand, you can also make nice landscape shots with longer focal lengths. The following picture was shot with a 400mm lens:

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