Beautiful shot!
I need some advice here about filters for landscape with trees and foliage.
In the area I'm living there is a lot of UV, and some landscapes I would like to shot. Well, I'm having a difficult time trying to balance, sky, trees and shadows areas. For instance:
- Shadows opened, with detail, but sky too clear/white and foliage "burned" due to clipping highlights (I forgot the terminology to explain too bright areas without details in film/analog terms). In general, the shadows areas I expose to zone IV, at least the main shadows.
-Trees and foliage: If I expose for, let's say, zone VI or more, the area reflected by the sun burns out - I could control that in some degree with polarization but this solution ends darkening the shadows too much - maybe due to UV light in the shadows, maybe...
- Red and Yellow filters: sky ok, but shadows underexposed...
Green: foliage and trees ok, well exposed, but sky too bright, no detail.
So, long story short, I would have some suggestions for a combination of filter, development and exposure - maybe film exposure and daylight hour - to have a workable negative with nice and detailed foliage without loosing everything on the sky area and don't loose too much on the shadows.
I know photography is sometimes a question of placing the priorities on the main subject and admit a certain amount of loose elsewhere, but I'm trying to not loose too much, or make a photography with the areas where this losts shows being less attention catcher and ending ruining the shot.
I'm working with B&W film only, for now.
Thanks for the help,
Renato
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Renato, to me it is all about choosing the right time of day. I find it is easier than getting into filters and developing techniques. I usually go for cloudy days, clean atmosphere (after the rain) and sometimes pointing the camera towards the right side.
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