This post is about how I take landscape photographs. When I choose a country walk, it is usually with photo opportunities in mind.
In terms of lenses, I usually have two with me, a lens in the range of 18-135mm and a wider-angle option in the range of 10-20mm.
The lenses usually have a circular polarising filter fitted but on duller weather days I carry a square filter system with three ND (Neutral Density) Graduated filters (0.3, 0.6 and 0.9) to put some detail in grey skies.
I usually shoot with a single focus point set a small as possible and use Single AF mode (for landscapes)
If there is running water, especially a waterfall, I will also take a tripod and either square ND filters or a circular, variable ND filter.
In terms of camera settings, I shoot RAW file format, usually deliberately underexposed by 0.3 of a stop (-0.3) to preserve detail in the highlights (if the situation requires, this gets adjusted). The colour space is set to Adobe RGB as this captures a wider range of shades (the gamut) than the standard RGB colour space.
I mostly shoot in Aperture Priority, usually between f5.6 and f16 with image stabilisation on unless the camera is on a tripod. ISO is usually on auto but with the upper limit set to ISO 1600. If the camera is on a tripod for long exposures, I would then manually set the ISO to either ISO 200 or sometimes ISO 100. Metering is usually multi pattern.
White balance is always on auto, shooting RAW file format allows easy adjustment of white balance during editing.
That’s about it, nothing that complicated but it works for me. If you have any questions, please use the comments to ask. Any trolling will be deleted.