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Landscape Photography
By Kenneth C. Hoffman

It is possible for nineteen dollars and ninety five cents plus the cost of the paper and framing to create a work of art worthy of hanging on your wall. All it takes is a little planning, a five to eight megapixel camera and a good printer . Today there are digital cameras that will equal the quality of film cameras, but they are quite expensive. I know you advanced photographers who swear by large format will be the first to state that large format contains more detail and less grain that 35mm and you are right. But we SLR photographers have to go with the camera that we have and work within that format. Professional photographers these days enlarge their photo image files to wall size and get beautiful results.

A five to eight mega pixel digital camera set on 50 or 100 ISO can be enlarged to 18 x 24 without showing pixels or losing sharpness. Save the image in a RAW or TIFF file. If a JPEG file is necessary, choose the extra fine option. I recommend a compact flash card with at least 512MB of memory. Even though the digital file is forgiving when printing out a slightly over or underexposed image, bracketing the average exposure is a wise precaution. The greatest danger in an overexposed image file is loss of detail in the highlights. An underexposed image file will lose definition in the shadows. By bracketing the image, some image software makes it possible to exchange portions of the images for a perfect final exposure. Digital files act more like transparency film, requiring an exposure within on half stop of normal. Do everything you can to prevent the image from softening. Clean your lens immediately before use, keep the lens out of the rays of the direct sun and use a tripod if available.

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