Help with Landscape settings

[MSabater]

Hi all,

I just bought a Nikon D3000 and I am finding very difficult to set it manually. My settings for landscape are as follows:

Dial to M - Manual
f11
ISO to shade as is cloudy
zoom set in manual

Every single photo I take comes out pitch dark. However if I switch to landscape mode then the image is OK. Any help would be most appreciated

M Sabater

[simon3116]

It sounds like you haven't set your shutter speed so you can set your camera to A (aperture priority) mode and the camera will decide the right shutter speed for you or adjust your shutter speed if using M (manual) mode. ISO should be as low as possible to get the best results without noise. If your shooting in JPEG mode set the white balance to match the weather i.e. cloudy, sunny or shoot in RAW and adjust it later in whatever software you are editing your shots in.

Longer shutter speeds will require a tripod or a wall to rest on.

Good luck.

Simon

[Troy]

If you're unfamiliar with shooting in M, don't. Switch to Aperture priority, and dial in a high f-number, F11 or so as you are. Set the ISO as low as possible, i think that's 200 on your camera. Personally i shoot in Raw+JPEG, so leave the white balance on Auto. If you're in JPEG i'd just leave the white balance on auto too, it should do a good job of realising you're outside on a cloudy day. Alternatively you can put it on the cloudy setting.

Now when you say zoom is set to manual, do you mean the focus? You can leave it on autofocus if you want, for a high f-number the depth of field will ensure everything is in focus.

Once you've set these things, your camera will set the shutter speed to match. Of course you can easily just set it all to automatic and take a couple of test shots, just to make sure your camera isn't broken or malfunctioning.

[mlaumann]

Personally i shoot in Raw+JPEG, so leave the white balance on Auto. If you're in JPEG i'd just leave the white balance on auto too, it should do a good job of realising you're outside on a cloudy day. Alternatively you can put it on the cloudy setting.

Got a little note to that one!

If your planning on doing panorama photos, or simply just more than one photo which has to be stiched together afterwards, be carefull with setting the white balance to auto. If you're on auto and you don't hold down the trigger button halfway and just move the camera, you will be slightly different results on each photo - which will screw up the end result when stiching them
So go with the "I-press-the-trigger-button-halfway-down-and-focus-on-the-first-frame"-trick :p

Otherwise I have nothing to add. Good luck out there!

[Matt Bennett]

With landscapes, I use the following set-up:

1) RAW capture
2) Aperture priority with around f11 on DX and f16 on FX (any narrower on each format results in too much diffraction).
3) Multi-pattern metering
4) ISO 100 (or whatever the lowest ISO is on the specific camera)

I check the LCD for exposure - if the camera is producing an over or underexposed image I simply dial in exposure compensation to suit or decide to shoot two or three exposures that can be merged in Photoshop.

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