Scenery photography shooting tips

Landscape photography composition framing refers to the scene in front of the photographer through the organization, refining, making it properly convey personal feelings and opinions. The elements which affect effect of framing are shooting distance, shooting angle and shooting direction.

Shooting angle affect the momentum of shooting scene

Different shooting angles will cause changes in the shape of an object presented on the screen, change the momentum of the scene and the like. Head-shot performance for more intimate, natural picture effect; bottom is generally used to emphasize the shooting scene and shooting exaggerated height, but likely to cause distortion when shooting; a plan to shoot more for performance, accountability and panorama shooting the scene in which the surrounding environment.

Similar changes in the use of rhythm to grasp the picture

In photography, the photographer through certain technical means to arrange alternate space and the reality, as well as changes in density between the elements, or elements similar gradual change between the length of right and wrong, the size, so that works with a certain rhythm and rhythm.

Use golden section highlights screen visual center.

In landscape photography, the golden section for the meaning of the composition, at least in the following three aspects. First, the golden ratio can be used to determine aspect ratios, such as the high vertical frame 8 and the horizontal width of 5 or higher frame 5 and 8 wide, so that the picture looks more coordinated and beautiful. Secondly, because landscape photography often need to take Sky, water, ground scene, so the use of the golden ratio can be determined horizon or horizontal position, such as shooting the water for 5 in the picture, the sky accounts for 8; or ground accounted for 8, Sky 5%, and it depends on the Key to the performance on the screen. Finally, golden point, we can determine the position of the screen visual focus should normally be placed in a position on a golden point.

Reasonably processing screen space to keep a sense of balance.

When shooting scenery photos, pictures deal with a sense of balance is very important, a balanced picture gives a sense of stability, steady sense visually. To get a balanced picture of the effect, you need to run through each picture element to obtain, for example, by the severity of the screen, the actual situation, density, simplified and other relations, so that the screen to achieve a balanced sense of visual and psychological, as well as the picture energize, to create a balanced results not dull.

Using nature and changeable line show the picture.

There are a lot of lines in the scenery photography, including visible lines, invisible lines. They not only make the picture extremely aesthetic feeling, also can split screen, or make the picture line has a certain visual directivity. Reasonable use of line, therefore, can make the image more form aesthetic feeling and space feeling. The directivity of line, line has continuation and point to the nature, for landscape photography in the presence of special and clear lines, along which the line of sight of people tend to converge to the body. This line has a visual guide, or has the directivity. The formal beauty of line, in landscape photography, line is one of the important elements, composition structure and outline of mountains, beautiful the building curve can bring beautiful feeling to the picture.

Line segmentation effect

Lines have the function of the split screen, famous master of abstract painting Mondrian is split screen by lines and colors. In landscape photography, often represents a line to the end, the beginning of another plane or space, so through the line of the integral function can also show the beauty of space and volume change.

Clever decorative increases picture funny.

Landscape photos were taken to make the picture have fun or life, need to add the ornament sex element in the picture, such as tourists, floating on the surface of the boat, the birds, flowers, the side of a mountain small animals, etc. Attention should be paid to the some ornament sex while framing elements arranged in the golden point or three points, lines, and in the light, color, etc it emerged. Because although these elements accounted for a smaller area, but tend to be the visual focus of the whole picture, so that the picture has meaning and significance. Mountain is the richest changes in the natural landscape, is also the most challenging photography subject, its colorful scenery, from the change of the seasons to morning, faint, cloudy and clear, time brewing a different picture, every mountain shows majestic view.

Filming location choice

Filming location has great influence on the performance of mountains and rivers scenery picture. Such as mountains, towering high in the foot of the mountain can use the Angle of the look up its tall and straight, highlight its abrupt and dangerous trend; and are in a mountain peak point, can use wide Angle taking its continuous, winding. So the photographer should careful observation, after established the theme and intentions, changing location, to their own subjective feelings into the scene when, find the most suitable Angle, to obtain a single capture different effect.

The effect of different format

In a different format photos of our performance and conveys the visual effect is not the same. This section is to simply compare the horizontal format and vertical format. With horizontal format taken out pictures of mountains and rivers general attention to the use of the horizon, the show is a horizontal scene has the characteristics of, for example on the left and right visual expansiveness, sedate feeling, etc., can make the picture produces the feeling of peace, stability, broad. And vertical format notice is vertical mountains of visual perception, such as tall, tall and straight, steady, steadfast, can represent the magnitude of the vertical direction and the sense of form.

Use outlook to make pictures to life

In all kinds of mountains and rivers scenery pictures, he always encountered such a problem, if simply shooting mountain always feeling a little dull. At that time, if you can arrange outlook in the picture, with the other objects such as animals, trees, such as a setoff, not only can make the picture appear rich stereo feeling and administrative levels, and can build a different picture atmosphere, greatly enhanced the expressive force of mountains and rivers landscape works.

Use opportunely surface reflection

When shooting with lakes, mountains and rivers scenery, if only simply shooting the lake or the mountains, appear drab, should use the surface reflection to make more beautiful famous mountains and great rivers, the blue sky white clouds, red rosy clouds, mountains, trees, a castle in the forest, coastal in the rippling lake formation of beautiful reflection. Live in the quiet and reflection of the actual situation and activity of contrast, build give a kind of pure and fresh, bright and clear, quiet effect, make the picture symmetry.