- The Secret to Shooting Sunsets
- Cutting Reflections in Water
- For Landscapes, You Need a Clear Subject
- Using Your LCD Monitor Outdoors
- A Trick for Shooting Great Rainbows
- A Timesaving Pano Trick
- The Trick for Using a Fisheye Lens
- When to Shoot Streams
- Don't Stop Shooting at Sunset
- How to Shoot Fog
- Getting Shots of Lightning (Manually)
- Getting Shots of Lightning (Automatically)
- Where to Focus for Landscape Shots
- Find the Great Light First
- How to Shoot on a Gray, Overcast Day
- A Trick for Great-Looking Flower Shots
- The Full-Frame Camera Advantage
- The Seven Deadly Sins of Landscape Photography
- Landscape Sin #1: Choppy Water
- Landscape Sin #2: Frozen Water in Waterfalls
- Landscape Sin #3: Bald, Cloudless Skies
- Landscape Sin #4: Harsh, Midday Sun
- Landscape Sin #5: A Crooked Horizon Line
- Landscape Sin #6: Distracting Junk Near Edge
- Landscape Sin #7: No Foreground Object
- And...Dead Trees and Tree Stumps...And...
Landscape Sin #2: Frozen Water in Waterfalls
For a pro look to your stream and waterfall shots, you’re looking for that smooth, silky water—the silkier, the better—and that means you have to keep your shutter open for a long time (the longer it’s open, the smoother your water will be. See page 115). We’re talking 30 seconds to 2 minutes here, and if you’re snapping stream or waterfall photos in broad daylight, your shutter speed is going to be around 1/1000 of a second at the minimum, but more likely 1/2000 of a second or higher. This means two things: (1) frozen water, and (2) an amateurish looking shot. Don’t let this happen to you.