Summer sea view shooting skills

The place which must go in the summer, must belong to the sea. Everybody should have found, however, want to take good a seascape works is actually has the certain difficulty. Today let's teach players who love going to the beach for photography some practical shooting skills, hope them can help everyone with their seascape photography.

Take a piece of gradient lens

Photography has a noun, so called: Magic Time which is the time whatever you are shooting can make everything looks good. And the time period of this artifact is basically the time before sunrise and sunset. When shooting seascape also applies this truth, the moment before sunrise and sunset the sea is the most beautiful. People who photographed the seaside sunrise and sunset must also have a deep impression of the magnificent scene. At this time, the works will be warm color with blue sea to form a relatively strong color contrast, which can increase the overall interest of the work. If shot directly at this time because of the sun, the level of the sky will appear very dull, lack of a sense of air. When shooting at this time you should add filter, as long as plus a fast gradient lens, it will reduce the light up on one side, and the brightness of the sky will be reduced, but without any influence for Marine, the contrast of light of the sky and the sea than to reduce, the level of sky and the sea in the picture to be able to completely reproduce.

Pay attention to the scale of coastline and prospects

How can the classic photos of ocean less spectacular coastline? But to present different aesthetic feeling in your works, you just need to find some tips. You can take out previous photos of ocean views and summarize, it is not difficult to find some failed photos most because prospect is not outstanding or coastline in the wrong proportion. Then you only need to change your perspective, to find the prospect of some characteristics, such as shallow or different shapes of rocks, and then the distance of coastline and prospect with appropriate proportion in the whole scene can give a person very good visual impact. When shooting you can try to find to a high place to look down at the Angle of the film, and make use of its extension of the shoreline took the line of sight into the distance which makes the picture appear even more depth. Coastline can cause the change of visual focus, and make the picture appear energetic and imposing manner. It can also play the role of a guide line, make the line of sight for audience easier to gather in the main body of the picture. The following are introduction of filming time and shot composition skills for using slow exposure to shoot photography.

Try more with slow shutter shooting.

About water subject use slow shutter shooting is neccessary. Everybody is very familiar with the required use of slow shooting equipment, which are a reliable three tripod and grey mirror. If shooting with slow shutter, the assembly photo record some of the dynamic flow, low tide waves surging will give the final picture very strong visual impact. In general, the use of 0.5 to 2 seconds shutter speed can be very good to record the flow of water process, of course with a longer shutter speed to express the water mist effect is good. Has a superior tripod is the precondition of slow shooting, for your photographic equipment, the sea is a very dirty environment, the tripod can withstand the corrosion of the water. When using slow shooting seascape, tripod there will be a long time to soak in the water. So at the end of each shot, use clean water to rinse your tripod is very important. Especially more carefully wipe the foot lock parts, so that no accident later.

The sea is a subject that photographers can never finish, it’s varied and unique charm make photographer is full of unlimited creative enthusiasm for it. If you are an invoice and want to change your photo style, the above tips may be helpful to you. Start to have a try now!