​Most commonly used composition techniques in landscape photography

Landscape photography may be the first contact with the beginner photography and can be the fastest to start the photography category, canvas prints in the face of beautiful scenery most of us have the impulse to lift the camera shooting. The first and most important thing we do when we pick up a camera is composition, and when people look at a photo, it starts with composition. Composition is a geometry class because the word composition comes from Latin and means structure, composition and connection. Composition is the process of extracting and abstracting everything in the world into points, lines, planes and various shapes. Marc lubbock once said: photography is geometry.

Or you can think of it this way: photography is sometimes like a game of chess. You can think of your camera's viewfinder as a chessboard, canvas australia and the people you're photographing are your pieces. Win this game, this game no one with you, you have to overcome the past yourself, make your next photo better. Below we have selected 7 of the most commonly used composition techniques in landscape photography, hoping that these "most" will open the door to your landscape photography.

One: the most full - three - point composition

Three-part composition is probably the most commonly used composition method in landscape photography. Many good landscape photography works are composed of foreground, canvas floating frame middle and background, or called perspective. Such composition method can well show the level of scenery and fill the picture. Is this photo was taken of the tianshan mountains of xinjiang pasture, photographers use telephoto lenses cropping the vast part of nature, the whole image is divided into three parts, the prospects for the part of the prairie wildflower presents bright yellow, and middle distance, and background leading up to the level, the middle green plains of cattle and sheep have become the picture painted eyes, vision of grassland and the dappled light has a certain perspective effect. This way of composition is clear and full, making full use of lines and colors existing in nature. Finding points, lines and planes is always an important step of composition.

Two: the most interesting - diagonal composition

In landscape photography, be sure to train yourself to look at the world with an abstract geometric perspective, and you will find the existence of nature itself points, lines and planes. Imagine, if you look at a photo, all the lines in it are horizontal and straight. Although it can bring you a sense of calm and balance, it will also make the subject boring and boring. So, we're looking for curves, slashes to break the picture, to make it interesting. Diagonal compositions is one of the common way, let the line or the edge of the scenery to separate images by diagonal, is this picture taken under the sichuan-tibet highway, alpine valleys, brown hill was a black asphalt road middle section, tortuous road extending from the top right-hand corner of the screen to the lower left corner of the picture, namely the plane segmentation images also form a good visual guide line, make the whole picture have a sense of perspective. Look at the motorcade on the road. These cars look small against the huge mountain. They play a role of proportion in the picture and add a little life to the desolate landscape.

Three: the most abundant - using the framework

How do you fill a flat picture with three-dimensional depth? In fact, you only need to take some real or invisible frame in the picture as the foreground, to frame the theme you want to express, will make the picture has a strong perspective effect. For example, use the frame of a door to frame a person, use the frame of a window to frame a building. Of course, you cannot use this trick in every scene. If the frame itself does not have a certain sense of beauty or relevance to the theme, do not use it. However, when some frames are closely related to the theme, which can enrich the content of your picture or help to express the atmosphere of a scene, feel free to use them.

Sometimes, the frame in the composition is not just a simple visual element, it also carries more functions and meaning. The most commonly used foreground is the frame, such as the door frame, window frame, tree branch, arch, the edge of the building and so on can form a sense of composition of the object. There are also many common foreground elements that are useful in expressing the depth of field and perspective relationship, such as the foreground with large areas of colored flowers and plants and moving people, which can be blurred to foil the atmosphere.

This photo was taken from the kingdom of Tibet ALiGuGe site, this site is on a main building in a forest of soil of the pyramid, if the picture showing it alone, in Tibet under the light and the blue sky of also is not bad, but will always find a few interesting, with a wall as a framework, the hole in the above framework behind the line of sight of the audience is easy to focus on the theme of the above, so the composition is very suitable for the framework of performance of historic buildings.

Four: most concise -- extremely brief leave white

If painting is addition, then photography is subtraction, especially in landscape photography, only by removing the messy scenery and redundant elements can we get the natural scenery. White space is the most commonly used in Chinese ink painting to the creation of the language, but transplanted into photography works, the proportion of large areas of blank with simple scene foil and appear emptiness and loneliness, like a picture of a tree on the xue-yuan zhang, blank embodies a kind of silent at this time a even the beauty of the Oriental artistic conception, is often used in painting photography technique, you might as well also when scenery photography creation try this way, is your photography works full of artistic conception, express different emotions, open the imagination of space. Pay attention to the selection of specific scenery with a sense of form to foil the blank space, minimalist is not empty, minimalist can be very rich.

Five: most symmetric - mirror symmetry

The mirror effect is very charming, as if it has magic, and it is also the composition effect most often used by photographers when shooting scenery. The perfect and symmetrical mirror effect is very beautiful in form. There are many scenes in nature that have mirror reflection effect. Calm water is the most common. I even found the perfect mirror effect on the car body. Took photos of mirror symmetry is necessary, will be the perfect symmetry effect of images in two ordinary scenery will become quiet fairyland in general, take pictures of the mirror symmetry must pay attention to the balance between the actual landscape and scenery of the surface reflection of light, the brightness of the general picture upside if the actual scene than the reflection of the scenery, it will light, usually can use the gray gradient balance light than the mirror, to achieve the effect of perfect symmetry.

Six: most empty - empty block

In fact, blurring the foreground should be a method of frame composition. By using large aperture or telephoto lens, the foreground can be blurred to form color blocks or light spots, making the ordinary scenery become elements of composition and atmosphere in the picture. In the picture below, the photographer put the prospect of colourful prayer by others processing into colorful irregular color piece, to focus on the vision of snow-capped mountains, combine the Tibetan's two most important elements in a scene, is also a picture of the two levels have increased, so the two levels, one is the picture the level of depth of field, one is the level of the image and aesthetic taste.

Seven: most perspective - far point perspective

A photograph should be flat, but the landscape can have depth. How to show the depth of the scenery, this is about to use the principle of perspective, there are a lot of perspective in the natural scenery line is the line of sight of people lead to the theme of the picture, the picture of the snowy mountains and rivers, for example, the curve of the river bend guide the viewer's eyes to the vision of snow-capped mountains above, embodies the good scenery depth, make whole picture very depth. A wide-angle lens and a larger aperture are usually used to capture such images, large canvas resulting in a larger depth of field.