How to photograph in the bad light condition

Looking for a different color

The advantages of sunset and sunrise is that you can use balanced portrays the landscape's most beautiful line of color and style, but when the poor weather, natural light to have no ability to provide enough for need, colorful pictures and the color of the equilibrium, to create a rich and colorful images, you must find a vivid theme.

In the cloudy day, the light will become soft. At this time can find subdued color - those not easily under the setting sun and saw the color of the shallow purple and blue for instance. These colors of light at sunset or sunrise may not be obvious, but grey days make them outstanding. After a storm, you may also be taken out of the beautiful image color saturation of the color. Even in grey, silent sky, tropical rain forest green always highlight, as a landscape photographer, remember to take your all kinds of filters.

The unique details

Although the best shooting time is in the sunny or the environment of the light is enough, but sometimes also pay attention to the details of photos in overcast weather is very good, to some extent, this is because the cloudy day too drab, pictures rarely can increase the readers interest through the dreary sky. But in cloudy day the clouds also has a unique texture, the heaviest if you would like to ask themselves, they can help you to composition. If the sky is not interesting, also won't show pictures. Above pictures clearly can see the sky is gray, but had a little light on the ground and in the out its beauty in the silence, and when it's cloudy so shoot landscape can find scored, the details of the recycle cloudy downy light prominent subject.

Close shot

Macro photography is an effective method to highlight the main details on overcast days, cloudy with light shadow, this allows us to see a closer object of true color and tone. Some macro photographers like flash, but the cloud can make photos have wonderful light. Close shot more natural and saturated color than the distant scene, because the lens between the subject and almost no too big fog. Usually rainstorm cases, you can also shoot water droplets on the plant. The geometric pattern of water droplets is generally very beautiful, they are ideal subjects under cloudy conditions.

Long exposure time

Photos in cloudy day may lose its original unique feeling, but in fact there is a quick and convenient way to solve: using grey lens, because the grey lens can be reduced the lens into the light, so we can also be used in the daytime super slow shutter speeds. Of course, the filter will not every scene is helpful. But, long exposure time can provide images of a completely different style. A long exposure will also highlight the naked eye it is difficult to see color. If you use the camera before dawn long exposure time, even if the color of the sky dark, you may also discover unexpected surprises. The above photographs were taken under the long exposure, feel not so boring?

Use black and white pattern

Since the rise of color photography, there are few modern again after black and white photography, probably because think black and white is too boring. But in fact it is in a bad light it is more effective, more poetic than a color photography. As the cloudy sky, high contrast black and white photos can still convey the beauty of drama, and that in dark environment color photographs should not be present. And to some extent, the style of black and white photography itself is surreal. People often like landscape photographs, they hope that the photos show a more beautiful world than usual, for example, in the sunset landscape can show the most beautiful and charming scenery. Monochrome photography does not have the same dramatic look, but the high contrast of black and white photography, black and white also can highlight the beauty of the subject.

Make good use of midday light

Although photographers have agreed to under the good weather, but sometimes the light too strong also can make the inefficiency of the image, such as the dazzling sunshine at noon can make body produce redundant shadow, sometimes really hate. We are hard to avoid harsh shadow and bright highlights, it has the potential to photograph contrast a romanism. But we can never avoid fierce light, you can do is just need to take advantage of the strong sunshine, to create a unique image. When some item details or buildings were taken, because the shadow cast by light have the opportunity to bring the subject characteristic, also make composition more abundant.