​9 tips for taking a picture of landscape

A lot of friends like to shoot scenery photography, but often the beautiful scenery photography ugly, or the general scenery did not shoot beautiful, then how to create a beautiful landscape photography works? Photography self-study class, this course through 9 groups of cases, mistakes and correct examples, compare the introduction of scenery photography, also introduces the skills of scenery photography, as well as the relevant parameters of scenery photography, I hope to help you.

Don't empty!

A lot of friends when shooting landscapes, like the vast, the scene, but the vast, the images are often too empty, such as the following pictures of grassland is the lawn, below is the sky and white clouds above, no interest in the photo, is very common, and common scenario, it is common, can let a person feel he is very general, but also is the scene, we can use some skills to make photos look more beautiful:

Wait for the right weather, for example, when the sky is cloudy, so that the picture looks more powerful and dramatic, and you can take beautiful pictures without adjusting any parameters and keeping it level. You can also look for points of interest, such as cattle, sheep or tents or people on the grassland, or trees on the grass, so that the photos don't look so empty and boring.

The parameters are good!

Many friends like to take pictures of sunsets, but other people's sunset or sunrise photos, golden or red, and your photos look very gray very green, only the sun is red, then how can you take pictures full of golden sunsets?

White balance: Cloudy. Only a white balance on a cloudy day will create a stunning golden or golden-red color. The white balance, on the other hand, looks grayer if it's not set right.

Exposure: and on top of that, the exposure has to be reduced by 0.5 to 1ev, and the dimming is so that the gold comes out and the light fills the sky.

Have contrast ability to have key.

Contrast, scenery photography, want to have to use good photos will have priority, will be the main body, seems to have content, such as the following this piece of scenery photography, the house could have been listed as the focus of the photo, but because it is not particularly outstanding, cause he is in the photo, also is not very prominent, attention and scattered by the lower right corner of bridge. And here's the picture:

Parameter right, clap water to be good-looking.

The same is true of splashing water. Why is the water of others like silk and mist and like thread, while your water looks like ordinary water? This is because the parameters are not set correctly:

If you have a filter, use a filter. If you don't have a filter, make sure you use an extremely long exposure time: 30 seconds or more. If you can, time shooting is best. If not, use voice control or shutter release. Because pressing the shutter also causes the device to shake, the picture is ruined.

Pay attention to the surrounding available conditions.

When shooting landscape photography works, but also pay attention to the surrounding available conditions, such as taking buildings, only taking buildings on the ground will look very ordinary, and the use of water on the ground to form a reflection, will make the photo more three-dimensional, better sense of space. At the same time, you can also use:

Some small leaves as the foreground, focusing on the leaves, and the building in the distance will form a blurred background, the photo looks better depth, and the details of small leaves are very prominent, very artistic.

The parameters of the sun has an outline.

First of all, don't shoot the sun outside of early morning or late afternoon, as this can cause device damage and burn your eyes. It can be taken in the early morning or late afternoon, within 10 minutes of sunrise or sunset. However, the sun shot by many of my friends seems to be a blur with no clear outline. This is because of the wrong parameter setting. After the automatic exposure, we should:

Take advantage of some of the environmental elements on site, such as adjusting the right Angle so that the sun is in the gap in the reef, and the aperture of the small device can provide beautiful starlight. To get the star awn, you need to use a small aperture aperture parameter reference value, which is approximately 16. Mobile phone lens, is not shot out of the star awn, because the phone lens is the electronic aperture, not the real physical aperture.

What should be paid attention for big scene.

Two points have been introduced above. When shooting a vast scene, you should pay attention to it. Here is another point that should be emphasized.

For example, in the image below, on the left, the photographer should have been closer to the person to make the person bigger, and more visible in the larger scene would have made the picture look better. The ship on the left and the lighthouse on the right, both in color and shape, are different from the overall environment, and photographs of the vast scene seem more focused and informative.

Both taps buildings or other scenarios, the main thing is that in the middle of the scene photography, waiting for the right light, waiting for the beautiful color, such as the following pavilion, although its form is more special, but cloudy environment photograph it, not too good, because there is no light it again, it doesn't distinguish from the environment, more overall and gloomy, cause the picture too. And this shabby house below:

Although its shape is not beautiful, by adjusting the Angle, it forms a height contrast with the trees on the left, and the backlight shoots the light and colors the whole picture beautifully, making the whole picture gorgeous.

How can landscape photography be composed?

What composition can be used in landscape photography? Scenery without composition, even if the scenery is beautiful, will be destroyed. If the scenery is not beautiful, it will be ugly on ugly. Take the following photo :( I’ll show you some practical methods of landscape composition later.)

(1) Guide line composition.

Introduce friends to guide line before composition, can pay attention to the shooting scenery of environment of bridge wire line is obvious, but if you don't have this kind of scenery, also can use the guide line of composition, such as the following, the water construction is obvious bending arc formation, extension in the photos, so with a corner of the arc along the arc taken forward, the line of photo will be more beautiful, depth and body will be better.

(2) Guide line and horizontal composition.

We can also combine several composition techniques, such as the following photo, the bridge on the river, to form a progressive cash guide line. The photo should be kept in a balanced level to avoid 1/2 of the score, which looks too rigid. The subject can be slightly lowered to occupy more of the picture. A guided line composition with a horizontal composition, combined with beautiful colors on the background, will make the picture even more beautiful.

(3) Triangle composition plus golden node composition.

In the image below, the sand and shells in the lower right corner form a triangle, which corresponds to the sea in the upper left corner, which makes the image more stable. The lighthouse is located at this point in the image, in the upper right corner of the tic-tac-toe junction, which is close to the golden junction, for added beauty.

(4) A centered composition can also be beautiful.

Many friends say that the center composition looks too normal, but what do you think of the center composition in this last photo? I think its ok. The reason why he can do it well is that while using the center composition, he also USES the symmetrical composition. The scenery on the left and right side are relatively symmetrical, which makes the photos look more regular and clean. Meanwhile, the silhouette effect reflects beautiful colors through the hollow-out scenery.

The above landscape photography tips are all practical and dry. I hope they can help you. Please share your landscape photography in the comments!