The situation: I am slowly crawling along a narrow beach at high tide, occasionally wading, to reach the thousands ofsandpipers and plovers on a narrow stretch of beach. When I get close enough to start shooting, I run into the problem of shooting into the sun. Colours are washed out and there is haze. I can't get to the other side of the beach because I would disturb the birds and they may not return. I am shooting with a 100-400mm zoom lens.
How can I minimise the effects of the sun, such as losing colour saturation, and haze etc. This question is directed at both the camera and post-processing RAW captures.
Any thoughts on that?
7 comments:
Polarizer?
ND filters?
OK. I am using a rather large lens so polarizer is too much for me. I have a UV filter on and that is it.
But lets say that I am there on the beach and all I have is the lens, UV filter and a hood.
D
Run home and get a big polarizer?
Or try bracketed exposures and stitch them together later at home?
Stop down to f22 and hope that a longer exposure 0.5s is fast enough..
Slight aside: I read somewhere that if you make your aperture too small your image can become somewhat unfocused due to diffraction. Any comments?
I know that it is harder to achieve focus and there can be some funny artefacts at small apertures like f22. I think focus point selection becomes more critical and clearly tripod use essential.
Ivan
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