Landscape photography composition skills

Shooting opportunity of scenery is almost everywhere. Both in big cities and small towns, both on the farm and in the wilderness, canvas photo prints can find the scenery available for shooting. Although Yosemite national park as the United States or great Smoky Mountains such famous scenic spot is a good place to visit and photograph, but for those who are keen on landscape photography, these attractions in all your accounts for only a small part of landscape photography. So, if you wait to get these places and so are bound to be a sad the photographer. Here we talk about the charm of photography, and it brings happiness and interest, therefore, let us put aside these, see the real pleasure photography bring us.

A third rule

To move the subject out of the middle of picture, the third rule is a very useful tips. The third rule is based on the picture from top to bottom, wall art from left to right, each is divided into three of the four lines. The photographer can make use four intersection of the four lines in the picture for composition. You can put the horizon as the picture from the top down into three above or below a line, then put some element, such as a tree or a mountain, at a third on the corresponding line, which can produce the effect of extremely rich visual impact.

About a third of the rules, I have a complex feeling. Rules on the one hand, this simplifies the composition method, make the judgment on the composition simpler. But on the other hand, due to not following the rules for a third of the real world, so the rules and can produce too much limited. A third rule photographic beginner sometimes pays too muchvalue, even in the case of do not apply to still in accordance with the rules.

Maybe it would be better to call a third rule reference. If you think in this way, it will be more and won't cause problems. Carried out in accordance with the rules of a third composition first, and then move the camera, through the viewfinder to see if some part of the real scene pictures in different position will get a better picture. Frame is used as the reference line, you can try to put the composition elements near the edge of the screen.

Balance

Better rules of composition may be a balance. Relative to a third of the rules, the balance is more difficult to understand a concept, because it has no established pattern, no guidance. Balance rule can be applied on any photos, even if a third rule is not suitable for use in the real world, it can be used to balance the rules. Balance rule is very simple in theory, but if you want to apply it to the actual photography is the need to think about it. Through practice, it will become very intuitive. The balance is related to the photo quality, such as photos from one side to the other, from top to bottom, the balance of the elements on the right with the left elements in vision, and balance the picture below and above elements. In a symmetric view, the balance is very obvious, But this scenery often does not have any meaning.

To see picture of the balance, you must take photos as a whole, rather than merely observing the subject. Should inspect the relationship between main part and other parts of the picture, take a look at the picture is heavy and light. If there is a big, strong contrast of the subject is located in the side of the picture, and the other side of the picture is very simple, so this picture looks is not balanced. Think about it, just like the children to play on the seesaw, if on the opposite side of the seesaw as long, one end of a big child sitting on the seesaw, and a child sitting on the other side of the seesaw, the seesaw will not bve balance. If you want to let the seesaw balance, the child sit side must be longer.

Taking pictures, you can't change the basic size photos, but you can change the subject position in the photo. So there are some things need to think about it:

1. Small objects with large subject to become equal partners. With big subject fill most of the images, and in the limited area with small objects composition and the formation of balance, so as to constitute a good contrast.

2. Large areas of the sky can often be with smaller ground balance.

3. The space is also a kind of elements in the picture. If considering in this way, the space also can balance with the rest of the image formation.

4. Color can affect the balance. Compared with dark color, bright, saturation color is more visual wallop. Therefore, the use of these two kinds of colour for composition is different. You can make a colorful subject make up most of the images, and use a smaller, lighter color contrast of object. You can also look for a small, colorful subject, with the same side or the other side of the balances a large space.

5. Picture with object in centre generally difficult to balance. You might want to know if the subject "cluster" together, what will happen. It's like a big boy sitting on the seesaw. If a photograph the scenery of cuhk, colour is gorgeous, or some things on the side of the strong contrast, and the lack of such elements, on the other side so this picture can let a person look to feel uncomfortable. For example, a photo to a mountain and a few tall has the strong contrast of the pine trees on the right side of the picture, and on the left side of the only color dark grey cliffs. Pine trees can make the unbalanced composition as a whole.

Foreground/background

To really make a composition of landscape picture, one way is to look for the relationship between the foreground/background. It can give you the opportunity for landscape to create very interesting visual effect. The relationship between the composition elements can make the whole composition. In landscape photography, it always has very close relationship between foreground and background. Therefore, by tolerating outlook, you can add some details in the picture. And if we only take care of in the background when composition, so it is difficult for these details.

Of course, if you use a wide Angle lens, it may be because of the negligence will be taken by the prospect of too much in the photo. You need to consciously use prospects. What is in prospect? How about moving to interesting elements inclusion into the prospect of the composition? Worst way is to simply focus on the big scene, but expect pictures will appear in the foreground and background of the best effect. With wide Angle lens photographs, must be in the prospect seriously looking for interesting shape, color, and the object.

Distracting components in composition

Deal with distraction in the composition of composition is the best way to find them, and then remove them. Even the scenery is very beautiful, may also be because there is a clearly inappropriate things while filming "sneak into" part of the picture composition. This kind of distraction in composition most often appears in the edge of the picture, it is also another reason of check the edge of photo. But they may also appear in any place.

Train ourselves to examining the whole pictureto improve you own ability, so that you can quickly find any possible any distraction in composition, and to get rid of them. These distraction components may come from the light (some should not be there is a problem with the dazzling light, reflected light or affect the shadow), may come from the color (such as in spring beautiful green in the photo, a bright red light sign appeared in the distance), also may come from the shape (at the edge of the photo has a branch or a small part of a block of rock has not been noticed), and so on.