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This photo was taken in Tay Ninh province at the border of Vietnam and CambodiaTime
This around 6AM when the sun was hiding in cloudLighting
At the golden hours without sun (hide in clouds) I decide look forward to the back side with lot of cloud are flying over mountain, that very nice landscape and so exciting for me to take this photoEquipment
My equipment are Nikon D600, Sigma 12-24mm, Bombo Filter Holder, Hitech-Formatt ND 2.4, GND reverse 0.6 and Benro C3780 tripodInspiration
The small water hole make the story of photo, that not the main object but the nice and very importance subject. Main object is the tree but not beauty without water hole before and mountain in cloud behind it. I try to take long exposure with ND 8 stops to make water smoothly become clear and strong reflection and also for cloud moving smoothly. GND reverse 2 stops reduce light in cloud zone make it have clearer detail and balance whole photoEditing
Crop, rotate and balance light, more saturation and more detail in the front of photoIn my camera bag
I have only Nikon D600 and always go with my favorite Sigma 12-24mm that the widest ultra wide lens in the world recently, ND and GND filter is always in my bag, I need specific filter's holder for this lens "Bombo150S" is my product and tripod to make the picture stable, clear and sharp. Sometimes I use Tamron 24-70mm or Nikkor 70-300mm to contract the far objects but not usually.Feedback
I love ultrawide lens like Sigma 12-24mm because it's effect in landscape, it make everything larger in near and smaller in far position, that for deeper looking and more 3D in landscape. In this case it not impossible to make the reflection in water hole with the small water hole like this with normal focus lens. The effect of lens make everything going centralize together. The tree is center and everything like water hole shape, cloud, rice road... go forward the center make the photo deeper and stronger affect. I always use filters to balance the light, it get more detail in over exposure zone. I use ND filter to make long exposure that get more detail in your picture even you take wrong a lite bit exposure. Tripod is the equipment very importance to make picture more clear and sharp
