The key elements of shooting scenery

Good scenery photo composition art is to know the best standing position. This idea is very good, his viewpoint is a key to the success or failure of the scenery. You should stand at the bottom of the waterfall with low Angle adjust its height and size, or taken from above a lot of water pour out from the cliff? The viewpoint that you choose can explain your interpretation of the scenery. And choose different point of view may be a large number of shooting for a location or popular attractions bring new interpretation, help your picture stand out.

Select lens is also important decision -- and with wide Angle lens into the larger scene foreground elements, or a telephoto lens to separate scenes of local elements? With wide Angle lens to shoot a scene, from the perspective of low or high with a telephoto lens locking certain elements in the same scene, the two methods of image and deduction will be very different. Some landscape photographers will to thought they want to shoot the scene, and look for to achieve the required effect of viewpoints and lens; While some photographers will be in the same place for long time, from long to different wide-angle lens in different point of view of different composition. Either way, viewpoints and the choice of the lens is to determine the composition, implementation of a landscape or you place of important steps.

You only can best use nature to give to you. But if you're standing in the wrong position, or only obscured bad vision, your losses will be magnificent beam more heavily than miss through clouds. Fortunately, this kind of circumstance is not hard to avoid, for the most scenery photography, the solution is the correct planning and preparation. Experienced landscape photographers tend not to bring a camera, visiting the same place many times to shoot their way to analysis the best point of the landscape.

The stillness of the subject, move the photographer. Portrait or still life photographer can easily change the position of the subject, or adjust the studio lighting - but for landscape photographers, such changes may mean that in a few mountain roads.

Creative thought is the first step on the scene. You may already be very familiar with the local or your favorite attractions, or have already seen in books, magazines or surf the Internet surveys some of their photos. Thought you want to take pictures of class type can help you save time when they visit scenic spots (whether choose a location or film), but the most important is that doing so can provide the basis for your work. Or, you could grope about after it reached the spot, at the risk of missing or sunset light to find different.

If the thought as the starting point, you just need to find which can realize you have to do is to deduce the correct viewpoint. Prospects or middle if there is a hill, a tree, a rock or a building block the vision, make the photo is the main focus of obscured or interest elements? If so, whether you can climb higher, put it out of the sight, shoot the photos of the cleaner?

You want to advance inspection spots, analysis of the merits of different viewpoints (at the first visit to try not to take the camera). For example, if you can't arrive early in the morning, then you should set aside enough time before sunset for the analysis of the merits of different viewpoints.

When selecting a point of view, one of the most important factors is the interaction between light and the scenery. In different season, the sun will rise and set in the scene? Under the different direction of the sun, all sorts of elements can have what effect?

Next, how to determine potential composition of a picture, think about your point of view. Think about if from different angles, or from the position of the higher or lower, what images. What are important elements in the scene? Cape is rock, winding rivers and waterfalls or curves on either side of the canyon? If you change your position, view, or the relationship between the main elements are influenced by what?

Be familiar with a scenic spot or to choose a location in advance can help you find the best, not keep out the vision, and to be prepared for the wonderful light suddenly appeared. Using wide Angle lens on the broad scenarios (such as 17-40 mm lens) emphasis on the prospect of significant point of interest, such as flowers, stone, boat, driftwood, etc - is one of the most favorite skill landscape photographers. But why this technique can be used so frequently? The answer is simple: we are living in the three-dimensional world, but the camera image is only two-dimensional.

Prospect of interest points can add depth and distance for the image. In addition, the prospect of elements can also be used to create guide line, pull the viewer's line of sight into the image, or to create simple sense, or let viewers have sensed presence - foreground object seems to be within reach.

Wide Angle lens will highlight the foreground objects. The nature of wide-angle lens is they will be more emphasis on close objects, this effect is called the perspective shortening (foreshortening). This allows foreground objects appear more prominent in the picture, add depth and distance to the scene.

Make the whole picture is full of interest. Using wide Angle lens and add foreground objects in images can effectively increase space for the photos. But it doesn't matter you want to make sure the proportion control - objects should not be too prominent in outlook. The prospect of further elements emphasize technology is under the direction of these elements on the Angle of tilt camera. It distorts the picture the rest of the regional perspective, however, the trapezoidal distortion can be repair in the post-processing.

Application of this effect, you have to be careful, for several reasons. If the camera is set too low, the foreground objects (like stone) may cover more distant elements, its perspective effect could compress the foreground, middle, and background have to close to, make them together, each other too cluttered images, the lack of space and depth. High point of view, however, will emphasize relatively empty middle, lead to full of too much useless space between foreground and background. Balance is the key.

When using foreground elements, another important consideration is to keep enough depth of field. Depth of field refers to the specific aperture Settings, clear lenses nearest and farthest in the scene can close the distance between the focal point. Landscape photographers often use a small aperture (large f value, such as f / 16 / f / 22), because they can have the greatest depth of field.

This distance is constant, will only be changed in accordance with the lens focal length and the camera sensor size. Some old the aperture of the lens in the ring will have the depth of field is set, but relatively new lens often only the depth of field scale. Today's landscape photographers using hyper focal distance - will be able to make the object and the object of infinity focus recently clear focus distance. After setting up hyper focal distance, since half the focus distance range can focus to infinity. Through a wide-angle lens to use photographs of foreground objects can indeed make the vigor, but between foreground and background must match, otherwise the image will lack cohesion and clarity.

In the broad scenarios into the foreground elements can create depth and distance, and to pull the viewer's line of sight to the image inside. Challenge from far to near composition of a picture, you want to select a location, it can be agricultural scenarios, coastline, grasslands, mountains, the empty beach, etc., and then you want to use a wide Angle lens have a significant foreground elements and other background elements of broad scenarios. You might want to visit the location before decide the plot in the photo or information, also can and then make a decision after her arrival, but must use the unified theme, information or visual cues relate to all kinds of element. You can use the theme to these elements, such as human control of nature, the passage of time, the source of a river or waterfall, etc., can also be simply by balance prospects and sky or texture, shape and figure on the horizon to achieve unification.