Notes from the Field - Badwater, Death Valley

Notes from the Field is a photography series where I take you on a virtual trip to the places where I do my shoots and talk through all the things that are going through my head as I try to make eye-catching nature photographs.

In part one of this talk I head to Badwater Basin in Death Valley National Park, California in order to capture the wonderful lines and patterns of the famous salt flats. I talk about how I ultimately choose my composition, and my choices for shutter speed, aperture, and ISO.

In part two I take you through my post-processing workflow and show you how I take the raw files I shot on scene and turn them into the final image for prints and presentation.

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[JoshuaCrippsPhoto]

Ok, some caveats to this video: the reason I say that the D300 has the best image quality at ISO200 is because the Lo-1 (ie ISO 100) setting the camera has is not true ISO 100, but a simulated ISO 100 achieved through some kind of highlight clipping. And yes, there is some noise at ISO 200, though it's easy to deal with with a good noise reduction software like neat image. The main point I wanted to make is that shooting at lower ISOs is much better for image quality.

[yamitanomura]

great photo and tutorial