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    Jun 18, 2019 6 minutes
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    FRANCOIS VAN JAARSVELD

    IG: @francois.vanjaarsveld.12

    Nikon D600

    Nikon 18 – 36 mm lens

    FRANCOIS WRITES: I’m an amateur landscape photographer from Heidelberg in Gauteng, and I often take groups up the Amphitheatre in the Drakensberg. This photo shows the Eastern Buttress and Devil’s Tooth and was taken from the top of Tugela Falls. We slept on the mountain to be in place for the golden hour at sunrise.

    My camera is always mounted on a tripod for stability. I specialise in sunrise and sunset photos and I edit the photos to compensate for the difference in exposure between the light and dark areas. I also adjust contrast and colour saturation, and I crop my photos to improve composition.

    I used an aperture of f6.3 in aperture priority mode. I took three photos with bracketed exposures and blended them later.

    TOAST SAYS: Some purists believe that blending photos is cheating, but you could achieve the same effect in a darkroom back in the days of film photography – if you knew what you were

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