Friday 30 August 2013

Shooting in full daylight and... lens hood

Maybe it's obvious for you, for me it wasn't. When you shoot in conditions where there is alot of a sun - make sure you have a lens hood! You could say: "Well its only to remove some flares and i know how to avoid it so who cares". It's not completly true and I learned this a hard way - having photos from one session quite much broken.

When you have a Lens Hood on your camera it might help to DEHAZE your image in those conditions! Haze usually means that a tonal range on a photo is smaller and less interesting to a viewer. Fixing this in Post-Process is pretty hard and almost always will lower the quality of your photos!

If you're more interested, check this out:





Some discussion about lens hood:
http://forum.manualfocus.org/viewtopic.php?id=10166

Some comparsions with and without lens hood:
http://www.bobatkins.com/photography/reviews/ef-s_10-22_review_4.html

And some wiki about lens hood

Keep in mind that a lens can catch sun from bigger range - even if its not on a photo it might directly shine onto a lens area.

You might want to search for a flare on a small LCD display of your camera. However it might not be visible - contrast seems to be all right during a photosession, but it's not! It's because in strong sun normal LCD camera does not have strong contrast to show you what is happening on photo.

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