Walden Pond as seen with the Nikon D800

I generally use a Nikon D800 for shooting landscapes because of its high resolution that results in ultra large images. In my previous blog post I showed the images I took with a Fuji X-E1. They are very different from what I did with the D800, and I realized it is because the two cameras handle so differently.

This photo was taken late in the afternoon with a very bright sun and no fill light. It takes a very good camera, like the D800, to be able to open the deep shadows without any sign of noise in a situation like this. Typically, on an exceptionall bright and clear day such as this the scene would wind up as a silhouette instead of having the tree trunk and leaves showing full detail and color.

This image is a composite panorama of two D800 photos for a final total of 143mb file that is super sharp.

This is a close-up shot of the autumn reflections in the water from the above scene, done again as two images combined to make a super sized panorama.

Check out the previous blog post showing how differently the same scene appears when photographed with a Fiji X-E1 and 35mm f/1.4 lens.