Mountain photography light composition skills

Stack undulating mountain is a gift from nature, during the filming of a magnificent mountain to grasp the characteristics of the administrative levels feeling, make the best use of the camera, and the best composition method; As long as you can grasp the balance principle of composition, combined with the light Angle which can the most show the mountain topography, which can easily take a majestic mountain landscapes. The following is a simple to sort out a few composition skills, during the filming of a mountain as a reference!

Use the camera features, performance peak key

When filming mountain scenery, generally should match the appropriate foreground, the background is usually in the sky, clouds or fog. Suggest to use standard zoom lens with different focal length, the wide end can present a far distance, there is also a landscape of the whole, suitable for a big scene; Long period can be closer to the distant mountains, suitable to show the charm of mountains, but it is more difficult to show scenery in the broad sense, suit to give priority to with image composition.

The color contrast of the mountain

To make good use of the light, the colour of the landform and vegetation permutation and combination can let the mountain photography picture presents more abundant. This photo was taken in nearly noon branch office, using the sun position near the zenith of top light, prospect for frosted fargesia fill light, thus make the bamboo grove appears relatively bright; And a prospect of mountains because of the relationship between the backlight, color is dark black. Intense light and shade of color contrast make this look more majestic tall, steep mountains.

Exposure control techniques

Filming mountain, the mountain climate changing, especially with clouds and the change of light is the largest. So in the mountain of the height of the changeable weather, should always be exposure compensation, determine the correct exposure value, not only for the wasted effort. Generally have a cloud image, exposure should be appropriately increased eV value, exposure to obtain the best performance; Suggest to add 0.5 ~ 1 ev value is good. When the clouds open, to retain more blue sky color, appropriate reduction of 0.5 ~ 1 ev value, avoid the sky and white clouds blown out. Avoid highlights part of the image. Increase exposure compensation, be careful not to let highlights part of the image is a principle; Highlight part including the sky, clouds, sea of clouds, the snow.

Melting into the mountain, performance persistence

When filming the magnificent mountains, you can timely to carry a heavy backpack the four are included in the picture of them to present photography climbers to close to the beauty of the mountains at the edge of effort and perseverance. This time suggest adopting the magnificent mountains as the background, use people and mountain contrast highlights the moved. Images with this in the case of most of the snow mountain peaks standing, prospects are leaning forward on collocation of the four small figure, not only make the finishing point for the whole image, but also can show a person to love to awe of nature.