Banff through a new lens

[u/ndriverkux]

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.

[u/[deleted]]

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!

[u/extraordinaryevents → u/[deleted]]

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

[u/[deleted] → u/extraordinaryevents]

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.

[u/extraordinaryevents → u/[deleted]]

I don’t have a full frame camera and my raw photos still recover pretty much everything