3 other experiments for your holiday

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In the article 3 experiments for your holiday, three ideas were already offered for experimenting during your holiday and learning new techniques. This article covers three other photographic techniques you can really have fun with.

1. Infrared

2. Long exposures

• Remember that you can no longer shoot handheld and that your camera needs good support. Preferably use a sturdy tripod, but there are other ways to support your camera too;


• The shutter speed is the most important setting, and it needs to be long enough. To get a long shutter speed, use a low ISO value and a narrow aperture (high number);


• In the evening, there is so little light that it will almost never be a problem to get a shutter speed of a few seconds. With more light, this becomes more difficult, but you can solve this with a grey or ND filter (a kind of pair of sunglasses for your camera).
  
  Filters are available with up to 12 stops, known as 'big stoppers'. A shutter speed of 1/30 second can be extended to 2 minutes with such a filter.

3. Panorama

Just as with HDR, you need several photos for a panorama, which you combine into one wide photo during post-processing. Here is a step-by-step plan for creating a successful panorama:

• Do not use autofocus while taking the photos. If the photos have different focusing distances, it is difficult to join them together. Focus once and then turn off autofocus;


• The same applies to exposure. Preferably use the same aperture and shutter speed for all the photos you take;


• Make sure you have enough overlap between your photos. The software needs enough points of reference to join the photos together, sections that are the same in two photos. Therefore, keep an overlap of one third for each shot. To be safe, you could make the photos overlap by half;


• You can of course shoot handheld, but a tripod makes things easier. In that case, leave some room in your framing, because with a handheld panorama you often need to crop away more of the image afterwards.
  
  You can then combine the images during post-processing. Most editing programmes support panoramas. Some cameras even have a panorama function, so you do not need to edit anything afterwards.

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