Landscapes - Nuno Correia
Don Quixote Giants
Practice makes perfect, and that’s the explanation for the D. Quixote series. This project is about learning and teaching thru our experiences, so as you can see at the and of each photo a added technical data about the photos, allowing you to compare the differences and what they’ve produced.
Photo technical data:
Shutter Speed: 15 seconds
Aperture: f/4.5
ISO: 200
Focal Length: 65 mm
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Don Quixote Giants II
Besides from focal length differences, you can see the result of a longer exposure, there is more light available, giving more detail at the sky.
Photo technical data:
Shutter Speed: 30 seconds
Aperture: f/5.6
ISO: 800
Focal Length: 28 mm
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Calm
On this one i tried to give a smooth texture to the sea and notion of movement in the clouds. The shadow of the clouds give some tridimensionality and the sense of a wide area.
Photo technical data:
Shutter Speed: 10 seconds
Aperture: f/3.5
ISO: 400
Focal Length: 35 mm
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Mystery Myst
I always loved coastal photos with a misty look. As you can see this is achieved by a long exposure, and while the waves bash on the rocks they mist. I used the channel mixer on Photoshop to bw the photo, there was an orange light reflecting on the rock that i simply didn’t like.
Photo technical data:
Shutter Speed: 30 seconds
Aperture: f/8.0
ISO: 200
Focal Length: 85 mm
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To the Infinity
This one follows the classical landscape rules, as you can see there is a foreground, a background and a in between, accomplished by the continuity of the bridge.
Photo technical data:
Shutter Speed: 1/800 seconds
Aperture: f/16
ISO: 800
Focal Length: 28 mm
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This week assignment almost didn’t happen, Pedro had a motorcycle accident and he’s in the hospital as i write this words. He’s well and I hope he may join us on the next week assignment. Now, for this week assignment, there are some rules about landscape photography, in 4 of my 5 photos I broke all ;). Landscape photography is about nature/urban scenery to the minimal detail, which is accomplished by tight aperture values, to get a sharp focus in the foreground as at the background, as you can see in my last photo (To the Infinity), but i like experimenting and I broke all boundaries on my other photos. Shooted at night using long exposures and wide apertures… no rules, great photos… or not. 
Nuno, this week you’ve done it
My favorite one is the Don Quixote Giants II which has some sort of “UFO encounters” thing. To bad about the crane on the back, but still, it doesn’t distract you much.
My second favorite is the Mystery Myst I love the mystery effect also. You have used tripod for all right ?
Overall you have done a excellent work.
jrechena said this on June 25th, 2007 at 1:55 pm
I think i misunderstood something about the landscape rules, but i liked them all for at my amateur’s point of view all of those photos can be painted as difficult landscapes, aren’t they?
Me too, i like misty coasts…
Paulo Monteiro said this on June 25th, 2007 at 6:53 pm
Another one bites the dust! Congrats on another mission accomplished, here are my comments:
1. Good idea and nice shot; I think there are two things that could be improved: first there is too much neutral area around the poles, maybe zooming in and turning the camera 90 degrees to get rid of that, and second there is a distractive and not straight element on the far right of the shot; another idea would have been to overexpose the sky while gaining detail and texture on the paths that lead to the poles… would make a nice contrast of round and straight lines.
2. I like this one much better, if only the damn machine would get out of the way…. again I would cut off the shot on the right to get rid of the distractive element, but a much better shot in my opinion, I like the tones and details in the sky.
3. A very nice shot indeed! I love the smoothness of the sea!
4. Perfect shot! I like it in B&W, I like the long exposure, I like the perfect straight line in the background and the correct use of the rule of thirds! Try pushing up the contrast a bit so that the rock becomes darker, if the shot includes the whole range from perfect black to perfect white it will have more impact.
5. Very good shot and well done. Personally I would prefer to have less of the bridge with some more zoom so that we could have the bridge bigger and less background and ground, maybe moving the camera 50mt to the right and pointing in a different angle at the brigde, maybe even getting closer to the water and capturing less ground. But still the shot is quite good as it is, the perfect line of the bridge makes us look into the infinity…. and beyond! nice work
MCA said this on June 26th, 2007 at 11:19 pm
The Don Quixote series at the beginning doesn’t exist, the publishing date was very near and there it was. My intention of putting both pictures was to show how different speeds and apertures can influence a picture, my favorite is the second one, when I arrived to the spot I’ve became a little frustrated, the crane moved from another tower (on my back in the photos) to that particular one :(.
and I thought that Vasco da Gama bridge would make a great picture, when arrived there I take one shot, saw the result, went near to the river, try to shot again… and… the battery died on me :(.
My 4th shot it’s my favorite of them all, I was trying to get that effect from a long time ago, the contrast could be a little better, but succeed in the myst!
The 5th one was taken in despair, I’ve to Lisbon to participate in a bachelor party
Thank you all for the great comments
ncorreia said this on June 27th, 2007 at 8:28 pm