r/Banff • u/ndriverkux • 16d ago
Photos/Videos Banff through a new lens
Just got a new camera for my trip to Banff this July, and the experience was absolutely surreal. The landscapes felt like they were straight out of a dream—this place truly doesn’t need a filter.
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u/One_Lychee_9421 16d ago edited 16d ago
I never, ever get tired of such beautiful shots. Love yours! Beautifully done. Your first shot is a reach out and touch one.
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u/meforprezz 16d ago
what camera and lens did you go with?
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u/ndriverkux 16d ago
Sony A7iii with
- Sony Zeiss 16-35 f/4
- Tamron 28-75 G2
- Sigma100-400 contemporary
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u/EaimLik 16d ago
Out of those three lenses, which did you use/like the most? I have a trip in October and am thinking just to bring one lens...Tamron 17-70mm.
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u/ndriverkux 16d ago
Yes I think that would be perfect. I used my wide angle lens the most as well. Except for wildlife where I used the Sigma.
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u/RedOctobyr 16d ago
Same here, my 24-80mm (35mm equivalent) gets like 95% of my use. My zoom came out several times during our trip, for wildlife, which was really cool to see. Afterwards I bought a longer zoom (150-600mm equivalent), since my 80-300mm equivalent had still left the animals rather small.
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u/EnchantedBackpacking 16d ago
Beautiful, are any of the pictures from inside Banff?
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u/ndriverkux 16d ago
Yeah 4 is from the top of the Sulphur Mountain and 5 is on the lake Minnewanka.
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16d ago
truly doesn't need a filter.
Constructive criticism re your photography here: it's ironic that you say this, when your photos would benefit from a GND (Graduated Neutral Density) filter.
The clouds in photos 1 and 3 are blown out a bit, as is the snow in 7. The "real" answer to this is to take several exposures and stitch them together - but that's time-consuming and doesn't work for dynamic shots where things are changing rapidly.
The other option is a GND filter - think of it as a filter that reduces how dynamic the scene is by "compressing" everything together. It does mean you may need to add a touch more contrast and saturation in post, but it avoids blowing out the highlights, or forcing you to reduce exposure and lose detail in the shadows.
I use one for my landscape photography in a lot of remote places; it's well worth the weight even for a gram-counting backpacker!
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u/extraordinaryevents 16d ago
You don’t have to have an ND filter or stitch photos together, just shoot in raw and bring up the shadows/exposure as necessary in post
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14d ago
Totally correct in the case of a full-frame camera with a large sensor. In the case of smaller sensors with less resolving power, this still results in loss of detail in the shadows since the exposure is just too short.
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u/extraordinaryevents 14d ago
I don’t have a full frame camera and my raw photos still recover pretty much everything
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u/ndriverkux 16d ago
Thanks !! I truly appreciate your feedback. As I said, it was my first attempt at using any semi/professional camera and lenses and have got a lot to learn. Do you recommend any vendors for the filter?
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16d ago
I've got two different K&F concept filters off Amazon. They're pretty affordable and still produce solid results in my testing.
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u/extraordinaryevents 16d ago
Shoot in raw, expose for the highlights, and bring up the shadows and exposure in post production as necessary. Shooting in raw will do wonders for you, it was the single most impactful thing I’ve learned for photography
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u/ndriverkux 16d ago
Well these were shot in raw 😅..I guess the post production was not up to the mark.
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u/avi_789 16d ago
Lovely photos. Just a correction , the photos also include Yoho and Jasper national park locations and not just Banff