![]() ![]() Astrophotography has different requirements and typically you’ll shoot on a wider aperture for both the milky way and northern lights. Remember, focus stacking requires a tripod and for you to be on solid ground so keep this in mind. Think of scenes as either 2-dimensional or 3-dimensional and when you have a 3-dimensional feel with foreground, middleground and backgrounds then you need a more narrow aperture and potentially focus stacking. In a simple scene where you’re photographing mountains or glaciers then you can use f/4.5 in order to have a smaller ISO output. Therefore avoid going to f/22 or higher as diffraction may occur – losing sharpness in your image even with proper focus achieved. If you shoot with a smaller aperture, you will have more in focus, a larger depth of field than f/8 but you’ll lose out on sharpness due to the laws of physics causing diffraction. If, however, you want to have your foreground sharp, middle ground sharp and your background sharp you’ll have to focus stack in properly expanding your depth of field. When you’re shooting a general scene you can focus on the middle ground and that should provide sharp results or choose to focus on your main focal point. Shoot on f/8 as this is typically the sharpest aperture in any given lens and camera body set up. So rather let’s keep our ISO low and image quality high and get the proper exposure by having a slow shutter speed and ensure our aperture is the best for the particular scene. Remember ISO is your camera sensor’s sensitivity to light so the higher the value the more grain that is needed to bring brightest to pixels. Adding pixels and light to a scene in post processing causes the image quality and output to be negatively affected. Always use the approach of ETTR, expose to the right. Remember if you need to shoot at ISO 1600 but you’re 1 stop underexposed on your light meter, you’ll need to fix this in post and it’s like shooting at ISO 3200 but with worse quality. ![]() If in fact, you cannot use a tripod then choose the lowest ISO value you can get away with without underexposing your scene. ISO 100 is standard for shooting landscapes and with this setting you’ll be utilizing your tripod to manage the slow shutter speeds to ensure the sharpest results. Svalbard is also an extreme location where you have jagged mountain peaks with glacial middle ground and iceberg foregrounds, what more could you ask for?!ĭon’t forget to check out Secret Atlas’s photo expeditions here to some of the most remote places on Earth. Greenland offers diverse land and seascapes mixed in with really unique lighting conditions during the summer months which provide you with endless golden hour light. The locations I want to travel to have different and ever changing focal points and are not cliches or overshot locations and that’s why I choose to explore and photograph Greenland and Svalbard and why I’m planning on venturing to Baffin Island with Secret Atlas. Svalbard, Greenland and Baffin Island Whenever I’m choosing to go on a landscape photography trip or landscape photography tour, I am always looking for a location that has unique scenes, dynamic weather systems, mountains, seascapes, unique flora, glaciers and water ways in addition for the ability to add in the human element into landscape scenes. How to choose a location for landscape photography – wild and remote.
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