​Mistakes landscape photographers often make and Suggestions for improvement

Many photographers are keen on landscape photography, canvas prints mysterious nature is always full of temptation to them. But experienced landscape photographers also fall into the trap. Today we have compiled some common mistakes that landscape photographers make in their photography, and given some Suggestions on how to improve them, so that you can avoid making mistakes in your photography in the future.

A horizontal line

Some people are very talented at keeping their camera level while holding it in their hand, canvas photo prints while others are quite the opposite. When you're shooting a landscape from an unusual Angle, it's hard to make sure the resulting image is level with the horizon. If you can't get a shot at horizon level, you can only correct it by rotating or clipping it later, which means you have to give up the original composition, so avoid clipping if you can.

Here are two ways to keep your shot level with the horizon:

The easiest way to keep the horizon level is to use the hot shoe level, large canvas prints which is mounted on the hot shoe and adjusted to a horizontal position by observing the bubbles. Most SLR cameras today come with an electronic level, which has a horizontal line that shows a horizontal green line when the body is adjusted in a horizontal position. Otherwise, you need to continue adjusting the horizontal position of the body.

The depth of field

Apart from some creative landscape photography, most landscape photography requires a large depth of field to ensure a clear foreground and view. In most cases, large depth of field can be obtained through small aperture, small focal length and long distance.

In the past, the traditional landscape photographers are focused in the focal length, the so-called super focal length, is when the lens focus at infinity, the distance from ultra focus to infinity, the objects in the photo is clear, but almost a blurry objects are drawn to the focal length, that is to say, when the lens focus at infinity, the depth of field is from hyper focal distance to infinity.

Although some lenses are engraved with deep scale of landscape, now photographers are more interested in using mobile phone software to calculate the depth of field, hyper focus and so on by selecting the focal segment and aperture value of the lens, so as to obtain clear scenery photos in a simple and accurate way.

Prospects

When we see a scene, our eyes are always attracted by the interesting details and automatically ignore the boring places. In any case, the mundane and boring foreground ACTS as a barrier to the viewer's perception that the image has no bright spots, a situation that can be easily avoided. For example, choose a sea of flowers or a few boulders and shells on the beach as the foreground.

The light

Professional photographers are willing to wait days, weeks, or even months for a ray of light. The quality of light can make a huge difference to the image. Bright light can bring color to life and highlight the outline of the land. In contrast, dim light can make the image seem dull. However, even the most enthusiastic photographers don't necessarily have the time to throw everything aside and enjoy waiting for the light. Since many people can only shoot outside of work hours, this naturally means that these photographers want to shoot as much as they can, regardless of the light and weather.

When faced with bad light, try switching to black and white. Adjust the contrast, dodge, burn and other tools to make the photo more atmospheric.

A white sky or a black earth

This is a common problem in shooting: the difference between the sky and the ground is very big. It is difficult to get a normal exposure of the sky and ground at the same time. Often the sky is accurately exposed, the ground will be underexposed and become black; if the ground is properly exposed, the sky will be overexposed and turn white. The traditional method to solve this problem is to press the dark sky appropriately through the medium grey gradient filter. Some photographers also adopt HDR technology to combine multiple images with different exposures to get the overall image with relatively average exposure.

The composition is

When you feel the urge to press the shutter, it's best to look around the scene for an ideal Angle. The classical rule of thirds should be mentioned here, because people's eyes usually fall on the third part of the picture (whether from top to bottom or left to right), and the four intersections of the jiugong grid are also known as the interest center. When shooting, it is best to open the grid in the camera and try to put the scene in the interest center.

At the same time, frames for canvas prints the horizon should be avoided in the center of the picture. On the premise of keeping the horizon level, if the sky is more interesting, lower the horizon to give more space to the sky. If the earth is more interesting, raise the horizon so that people pay more attention to it.