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Sunset over Table Mountain from Botmaskop
Sunset over Table Mountain from Botmaskop. Hiking up to Botmaskop February 2016 with some friends who did some abseiling.
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Panoramic view from Botmaskop
Panoramic view from Botmaskop. Hiking up to Botmaskop February 2016 with some friends who did some abseiling.
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Vineyards view from Botmaskop
Vineyards view from Botmaskop. Hiking up to Botmaskop February 2016 with some friends who did some abseiling.
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Abseiling at Botmaskop February 2016
Abseiling at Botmaskop. Hiking up to Botmaskop February 2016 with some friends who did some abseiling.
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Abseiling at Botmaskop February 2016
Abseiling at Botmaskop. Hiking up to Botmaskop February 2016 with some friends who did some abseiling.
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Abseiling at Botmaskop February 2016
Abseiling at Botmaskop. Hiking up to Botmaskop February 2016 with some friends who did some abseiling.
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Abseiling at Botmaskop February 2016
Abseiling at Botmaskop. Hiking up to Botmaskop February 2016 with some friends who did some abseiling.
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Mountain and Lake
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This photo was taken in August 2015 with a Canon 5D MkIII, Canon EF 24-105mm f/4 IS USM
Camera Settings: f/10.0, 1/125 seconds and ISO 100StarkConde132mountainlandscapetelephototelephoto landscapedistant subjectperspectivescenezoomnaturephotographylandscape photographynature photographytreescloudssunlightlakephotowater
Mountain and Lake
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The main reason for using a telephoto lens for landscape photography is to isolate certain elements of the scene. You can create a whole set of different images from the same scene. It can be anything from a specific mountain peak in a range of mountains or it can be a certain tree or plant you want to focus in on.
This photo was taken in August 2015 with a Canon 5D MkIII, Canon EF 25-105mm f/4L IS USM
Camera Settings: f/8.0, 1/125 seconds and ISO 100StarkConde080mountainlandscapetelephototelephoto landscapedistant subjectperspectivescenezoomnaturephotographylandscape photographynature photographytreescloudssunlightlakephotowater
Mountain and Lake
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This photo was taken in August 2015 with a Canon 5D MkIII, Canon EF 24-105mm f/4 IS USM
Camera Settings: f/11.0, 1/125 seconds and ISO 100StarkConde005mountainlandscapetelephototelephoto landscapedistant subjectperspectivescenezoomnaturephotographylandscape photographynature photographytreescloudssunlightlakephotowater
Mountain and Lake
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This photo was taken in August 2015 with a Canon 5D MkIII, Canon EF 24-105mm f/4 IS USM
Camera Settings: f/11.0, 1/125 seconds and ISO 100StarkConde004mountainlandscapetelephototelephoto landscapedistant subjectperspectivescenezoomnaturephotographylandscape photographynature photographytreescloudssunlightlakephotowater
Mountain in distance
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When going out to take landscape photography most photographers usually only take wide angle lenses. While most scenes require a wide angle lens you don’t always need a wide angle lens to take stunning landscape photos. You can get a very unique perspective when using a telephoto lens. You can bring distant subjects closer and shrink perspective. It can be good to start off using a wide angle lens and once you have taken a great shot switch to a telephoto lens and focus in on some details.
This photo was taken in July 2015 with a Canon 5D MkIII, Canon EF 100-400mm f/4-5.6L IS USM on a tripod
Camera Settings: f/10, 1/400 seconds and ISO 200mountain181landscapetelephototelephoto landscapedistant subjectperspectivescenezoomnaturephotographylandscape photographynature photographytreescloudssunlightmoonphoto
Table Mountain with Moon
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The perspective is changed when using a telephoto lens to photograph a specific object. It is not as a result of the focal length that changes the perspective but rather the distance between the camera and the subject that causes this change is perspective. All the focal length really does is change the magnification and viewing angle.
Using a longer focal length requires you to stand further away to capture the same subject and this causes a change in the perspective of the image which results in a change of the background. You can do a test to illustrate this. If you photograph a nearby tree and fill the frame with a wide angle lens and then switch to a telephoto lens (or zoom in) and stand further back to fill the frame again with the same tree you will notice the change in perspective and the change of the background.
This photo was taken in June 2015 with a Canon 5D MkIII, Canon EF 100-400mm f/4-5.6L IS USM on a monopod
Camera Settings: f/5.6, 1/640 seconds and ISO 100TafelBerg169mountainlandscapetelephototelephoto landscapedistant subjectperspectivescenezoomnaturephotographylandscape photographynature photographytreescloudssunlightmoonphoto
Table Mountain with Moon
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The perspective is changed when using a telephoto lens to photograph a specific object. It is not as a result of the focal length that changes the perspective but rather the distance between the camera and the subject that causes this change is perspective. All the focal length really does is change the magnification and viewing angle.
Using a longer focal length requires you to stand further away to capture the same subject and this causes a change in the perspective of the image which results in a change of the background. You can do a test to illustrate this. If you photograph a nearby tree and fill the frame with a wide angle lens and then switch to a telephoto lens (or zoom in) and stand further back to fill the frame again with the same tree you will notice the change in perspective and the change of the background.
This photo was taken in June 2015 with a Canon 5D MkIII, Canon EF 100-400mm f/4-5.6L IS USM on a monopod
Camera Settings: f/5.6, 1/640 seconds and ISO 100TafelBerg167mountainlandscapetelephototelephoto landscapedistant subjectperspectivescenezoomnaturephotographylandscape photographynature photographytreescloudssunlightmoonphoto
Table Mountain with Moon
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The perspective is changed when using a telephoto lens to photograph a specific object. It is not as a result of the focal length that changes the perspective but rather the distance between the camera and the subject that causes this change is perspective. All the focal length really does is change the magnification and viewing angle.
Using a longer focal length requires you to stand further away to capture the same subject and this causes a change in the perspective of the image which results in a change of the background. You can do a test to illustrate this. If you photograph a nearby tree and fill the frame with a wide angle lens and then switch to a telephoto lens (or zoom in) and stand further back to fill the frame again with the same tree you will notice the change in perspective and the change of the background.
This photo was taken in June 2015 with a Canon 5D MkIII, Canon EF 100-400mm f/4-5.6L IS USM on a monopod
Camera Settings: f/5.6, 1/640 seconds and ISO 100TafelBerg165mountainlandscapetelephototelephoto landscapedistant subjectperspectivescenezoomnaturephotographylandscape photographynature photographytreescloudssunlightmoonphoto
Autumn Vineyard
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This photo was taken in March 2015 with a Canon 5D MkIII, Canon EF 24-105mm f/4L IS USM Camera Settings: f/8.0, 1/100 seconds and ISO 200autumnvineyard178grasswild grassnature photographymacrocloseupgreenbacklitbackgroundgoldenglowingseasondrymacro photographyphotography
Autumn Vineyard
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Mountain with trees
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The full frame equivalent of what a human sees through their eyes is equivalent to about a 43mm lens. Anything wider than 35mm is usually referred to as a wide angle lens. Anything greater than about 70mm is usually defined as a telephoto lens.
I mainly use my Canon 100-400mm L lens for telephoto landscape photos.
This photo was taken in May 2015 with a Canon 5D MkIII, Canon EF 100-400mm f/4-5.6L IS USM
Camera Settings: f/6.3, 1/400 seconds and ISO 1000Piekemountainlandscapetelephototelephoto landscapedistant subjectperspectivescenezoomnaturephotographylandscape photographynature photographytreescloudssunlightmoonphoto
Stellenbosch Mountain Fire March 2015
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This photo was taken in March 2015 with a Canon 5D MkIII, Canon EF 24-105mm f/4L IS USM on a tripod
Camera Settings: f/6.3, 30 seconds and ISO 400StellenboschBergBrand437mountainlandscapeburningfireStellenboschfotoinusgroblerphotographyflamessmokedangerdamagenature
Stellenbosch Mountain Fire March 2015
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This photo was taken in March 2015 with a Canon 5D MkIII, Canon EF 24-105mm f/4L IS USM on a tripod
Camera Settings: f/5.0, 5 seconds and ISO 200StellenboschBergBrand431mountainlandscapeburningfireStellenboschfotoinusgroblerphotographyflamessmokedangerdamagenature
Stellenbosch Mountain Fire March 2015
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This photo was taken in March 2015 with a Canon 5D MkIII, Canon EF 100-400mm f/4-5.6L IS USM on a tripod
Camera Settings: f/8.0, 1/640 seconds and ISO 250StellenboschBergBrand206mountainlandscapeburningfireStellenboschfotoinusgroblerphotographyflamessmokedangerdamagenature
Stellenbosch Mountain Fire March 2015
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This photo was taken in March 2015 with a Canon 5D MkIII, Canon EF 24-105mm f/4L IS USM on a tripod
Camera Settings: f/8.0, 1/250 seconds and ISO 250StellenboschBergBrand172mountainlandscapeburningfireStellenboschfotoinusgroblerphotographyflamessmokedangerdamagenature
Stellenbosch Mountain Fire March 2015
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This photo was taken in March 2015 with a Canon 5D MkIII, Canon EF 100-400mm f/4-5.6L IS USM on a tripod
Camera Settings: f/5.6, 1/640 seconds and ISO 320StellenboschBergBrand157mountainlandscapeburningfireStellenboschfotoinusgroblerphotographyflamessmokedangerdamagenature
Stellenbosch Mountain Fire March 2015
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This photo was taken in March 2015 with a Canon 5D MkIII, Canon EF 100-400mm f/4-5.6L IS USM on a tripod
Camera Settings: f/5.6, 1/640 seconds and ISO 320StellenboschBergBrand149mountainlandscapeburningfireStellenboschfotoinusgroblerphotographyflamessmokedangerdamagenature
Windmill on a Farm in Moorreesburg, South Africa
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A windmill on a farm in Moorreesburg, South Africa. This photo was taken in the summer. Moorreesburg has Mediterranean climate rainfall leaving it very dry in December.
The wind was blowing and the windmill was spinning. To capture the motion of the wind pump I took this photo with a relatively slow shutterspeed. After making the aperture as small as possible at f/22.0 and the ISO as low as possible at ISO 50. I got a shutterspeed of 1/25th of a second. This was fast enough to hand hold the camera and slow enough to add motion blur to the moving wind pump.
In the top right corner you can see the moon. When composing for this image I tried to get the moon in the frame but also not on the edge of the photo.
This photo was taken with a Canon 5D MkIII and Canon EF 24-105mm f/4L IS USM.
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Landscape Scene wth Train passing Through
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Regarding the settings of the camera. A small aperture is good as it allows a lot of the scene in focus. Anything from f/8.0 and smaller would suffice. (NB, smaller aperture but larger f number). And if using a tripod choose the lowest ISO to increase the image quality. If not using a tripod remember to keep the shutterspeed high enough to avoid camera shake. Image stabilization will help a lot in this case. A rough rule to remember is to keep the shutterspeed equal to or greater than the focal length of the lens i.e. 200mm lens will need 1/200 second shutterspeed. Remember this is based on 35mm equivalent focal length. A 200mm on an Canon APS-C sized sensor with 1.6x crop factor would be 320mm equivalent and thus at least 1/320 second shutterspeed would be required.
This photo was taken in December 2014 with a Canon 5D MkIII, Canon EF 24-105mm f/4 IS USM
Camera Settings: f/8.0, 1/400 seconds and ISO 100OppadKaapToe142mountainlandscapetelephototelephoto landscapedistant subjectperspectivescenezoomnaturephotographylandscape photographynature photographytreescloudssunlightmoonphoto
Stellenbosch Mountain with Vineyard in Foreground
A mountain landscape with vineyards in the foreground
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Table Mountain after suset
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The best time to photograph a landscape is during the golden hour. This rule still applies even when using a telephoto lens. The golden hour is the time of day shortly after sunrise or before sunset. The light is usually softer and a slightly golden colour. It can make your photos look magical.
This photo was taken in September 2014 with a Canon 5D MkIII, Canon EF 24-105mm f/4 IS USM
Camera Settings: f/4.0, 1/100 seconds and ISO 400SunsetTableMoutainmountainlandscapetelephototelephoto landscapedistant subjectperspectivescenezoomnaturephotographylandscape photographynature photographytreescloudssunlightmoonphoto
Table Mountain after suset
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The best time to photograph a landscape is during the golden hour. This rule still applies even when using a telephoto lens. The golden hour is the time of day shortly after sunrise or before sunset. The light is usually softer and a slightly golden colour. It can make your photos look magical.
This photo was taken in September 2014 with a Canon 5D MkIII, Canon EF 24-105mm f/4 IS USM
Camera Settings: f/4.0, 1/100 seconds and ISO 100SunsetTableMoutainmountainlandscapetelephototelephoto landscapedistant subjectperspectivescenezoomnaturephotographylandscape photographynature photographytreescloudssunlightmoonphoto
Silhouette of a tree with sunset
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This photo was taken in August 2015 with a Canon 5D MkIII, Canon EF 24-105mm f/4 IS USM
Camera Settings: f/4.0, 1/500 seconds and ISO 125SunsetTableMoutainmountainlandscapetelephototelephoto landscapedistant subjectperspectivescenezoomnaturephotographylandscape photographynature photographytreescloudssunlightsilhouettephoto
Mountain with Moonrise
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A telephoto lens compresses the background and decreases depth of field. In order to get everything in focus you will require a larger aperture than with a wide angle lens. On the other hand you can create background blur to further isolate the subject. With photos taken with a telephoto lens the background seem closer to the subject than what it actually is. Sports photos is a good example of this principle.
This photo was taken in August 2015 with a Canon 5D MkIII, Canon EF 24-105mm f/4 IS USM
Camera Settings: f/7.1, 1/125 seconds and ISO 160mountainwithmoonlandscapetelephototelephoto landscapedistant subjectperspectivescenezoomnaturephotographylandscape photographynature photographytreescloudssunlightphotomoonrise
Crepuscular Rays Through Clouds Over Mountain
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Vineyards in the foreground, clouds over the mountain and crepuscular rays. This photo was taken at Delaire Graaf Wine Estate in Stellenbosch, South Africa.
Crepuscular rays are caused by the clouds blocking the sunlight with columns of rays passing through the clouds separated by shade areas . Apparently there is proof that these rays are all parallel even though not all the rays look parallel on photos. The rays spreading out into different angles is an optical illusion but some people rather refer to the rays as being almost parallel. This phenomenon usually occurs during twilight hours although this photo was taken almost in midday.
Crepuscular rays in the sky can last very long and create dramatic lighting in a landscape photo. When these rays are caused by fog or mist they usually don’t last very long and can easily be missed. Crepuscular rays can make a photo look magical and add an extra element in a photo that can make it stand out from the rest.
This photo has quite a big difference in stops of light between the shadows and highlights. I purposefully underexposed the photo with a stop of light when looking at the histogram. Then in Adobe Photoshop increased the shadows and decreased the highlights both to 100. The reason for the underexposing of the photo is to make sure I do not clip the highlights. The alternative was to take a few photos with different exposures and merge them in Photoshop but that requires a tripod which I did not bring with me. I also prefer taking one photo and then increasing the dynamic range of the photo in post production.
This photo was taken in June 2014 with a Canon 5D MkIII and Canon EF 24-105mm f/4L IS USM.
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