Grassland photography shooting skills

Grassland is one of the most popular subjects for landscape photography, perched in the face of the endless prairie, carefree and joyous and enlightened the beautiful scenery which can only really feel in the grassland. The following are some grassland photography shooting skills.

The shooting subject:

1, cattle, sheep and horses in the grasslands

Naturally, say, to the prairies, on or sheep and cattle, and they are also a beautiful scenery line part of the grasslands, faint with the ornament of the animals in the grass, more angry. On the premise of avoid waking them, when faced with a group of cattle, sheep, horse, can choose high Angle shot; If it is a few individual, can choose low Angle shot.

2, lakes and rivers

Some grasslands, there will be a lake or river bend, when filming intends to combine them to come in, if there is a "curve", the mix of on line will make the picture more beautiful and have a sense of tone.

3, extreme weather

Grasslands of the clouds and weather changes can sometimes be infinite, in addition to the blue sky white clouds, we can also use grasslands changing weather, such as clouds, rain, fog, sunrise and sunset, etc., and these times are also a good time.

4, constructions which have the characteristics of grassland.

In addition to the beauty of the grassland scenery, some of the architectural characteristics of grassland or items and plain grassland people also are very good about.

After knowing what to shoot, how to get nice picture? This requires some filming composition skills; Grassland is the key line and prospects, using composition and framing, fully expressed the vast stretches of grassland and vast heaven and earth, high Angle overlooking the atmosphere, low Angle to highlight the details. Of photography composition methods such as: composition, composition, horizontal curve diagonal composition, composition convergence line, can reflect the vast grassland. Grassland photos is the core of line and color, and the location of the horizon and the sky is similar to "line", when shooting, a third will be put on the horizon, center, or a third, can produce different grassland beauty.

Grassland sunshine time is long, often sunny can see mostly low clouds, as well as the colorful sunset, the light characteristics of rational utilization of grassland is the base of filming grassland run out; The major can be combined with suitable light, backlighting or scattered light to shoot the grasslands of the different atmosphere. Grasslands of a lot of colour element, in addition to combine its line to photograph, can also according to the colour of it to create, summer grassland mainly is lush with colorful summer flowers give priority to, filming, to distinguish between primary and secondary, the transition of color to harmony. In addition, you can also use grasslands of horses and cattle sheep or ger to wait for the ornament of color, so that we can make the picture more vivid. Grassland area high latitude, ultraviolet ray is very strong, equipped with a polarizer and the gray gradient filter, can absorb ultraviolet light source, to better highlight the level of the color of the sky and the clouds, improve the quality of images.

In addition to the above said to the technique and matters needing attention, when shooting what should you bring the camera is also a core problem. Usually grassland photography wide Angle and telephoto lenses have their long, wide Angle can clap a vast, long can "carving" details. Of course, if you don't want to bear too much equipment, want to control on the single machine single lens, so a standard lens is the best choice, it can make ordinary also wonderful.