​Tips for taking a good picture of the scenery on a hazy day

During this period, with the continuous arrival of cold air, from north to south, canvas prints winter has entered, and fog has become a common weather phenomenon, which also provides many photography enthusiasts with creative opportunities, but also brings a lot of trouble to the shooting. Mist gives birth to vientiane, mist changes 100 states. Simple hidden in the rich, but also ordinary beauty. Therefore, fog is an important subject in landscape photography.

Taking photos in hazy fog can create a dreamy or even weird atmosphere and add a sense of drama to the photos. Fog is made up of many tiny drops of water that reflect a lot of scattered light. The farther away you are, the more light you scatter, the brighter it looks and the more indistinct the distant object becomes. Therefore, the scenery shrouded in mist can clearly distinguish the foreground, middle scene, perspective, and enhance the depth of the space. Moreover, canvas printing online fog can also give people a dreamy and ethereal feeling, which can cover up many chaotic parts of the environment, making the theme more prominent and the picture more expressive. Combined with the shooting practice, I sorted out some materials for friends to discuss and communicate.

1. Reasonable control of exposure

The whole world was white in the fog. The camera's automatic metering system is easily disturbed by the environment. Exposure taken fog scene, accuracy is a crucial question, fog scene images generally mainly light grey and white, only less content is brunet attune, so the landscape of the fog exposure should be moderately increase or decrease, on the basis of the condition of the film is usually 0.5 1 ev value comparison is appropriate, sometimes if, floating frame canvas in accordance with the normal metering will often appear underexposed. If the image needs to be processed into a high profile effect, you can add 1-2ev exposure compensation, but be careful not to let the highlight part of the overblown, this technique is suitable for the expression of quietly elegant soft artistic conception; If reduce exposure compensation, it is appropriate to express the effect of thick and deep, according to the need to set.

However, the exposure compensation should also be flexible, mainly depends on the proportion of fog in the picture, the larger the proportion of fog, the more need to pay attention to whether to adjust the exposure compensation, if the fog occupies a small area, or not in the metering area, it may not be necessary to increase the exposure. During shooting, we often pay attention to check the histogram of the photo and check the overflow of the curve, which is also convenient for later adjustment.

In the exposure Settings, try to capture the movement of the fog with a long shutter. Sometimes the fog flow speed is faster, can be closed by small aperture or gray mirror, deliberately extend the exposure time, make the fog scene rich sense of flow, is also a good art, often can get amazing effect.

2. Take advantage of the light

Thick fog can hide all colors, shades and shapes, making it easy to get dusty. You need to look for light that can Pierce through the fog to add drama. The sun in the morning and the street lights in the evening are all excellent subjects. Shooting night scenes in fog also works well, especially when it's just beginning to get dark and the sky hasn't completely turned black yet.

Shooting fog is generally the best time 1-2 hours after sunrise, because the sun is stronger at this time, and the fog is also weakened. The distant view appears hazy and fuzzy in the fog, while the near and middle views are clearer and more defined, which can obtain the photos with good perspective effect. Fog day is generally scattered light, but the direction of the sun can be generally resolved, if the use of light, sometimes the scenery will be flat, so the general use of backlight or side backlight shooting, can increase the perspective effect of the picture and three-dimensional sense of the scenery. If there is smoke or other smoke effect will be better. Sometimes when the fog is just right, the sun's rays will form a strong beam through the trees or distant mountains, which is a good opportunity to take pictures.

3. Understand the significance of white space in fog shooting

Photography in many occasions need to do a reasonable subtraction, and the use of white space technology is one of the specific embodiment of subtraction, which is particularly obvious in the fog shooting. White space, that is, some blank parts in the photographic picture except the visible physical objects, are composed of a single tonal background, forming the space between the physical objects. The background of a single color can be fog, sky, water, grassland, land or other objects. Due to various photographic means, they have lost their original physical objects, and form a single color on the picture to foil other physical objects.

Although white space is not the object of the entity, it is also an indispensable part in the picture. It is the link to communicate the connection between the objects in the picture and organize their mutual relations. The role of blank in the picture is the same as the role of punctuation in the article. It can make the picture clear in structure, clear in paragraphs, smooth in spirit and help the author express emotion.

If a picture is filled to the brim with physical objects without any blank, it will give people a feeling of oppression. Only when the blank is properly left on the picture, can people's vision have room for maneuver and their thinking is likely to change. People often say: "the picture leaves three minutes empty, angry subsequently hair." Appropriate blank, will make the picture lively, ethereal handsome. The blank space is often filled with the author's feelings, the audience's thoughts, the realm of the work can be sublimated. The blank of the picture does not exist in isolation, it is always an extension of the reality. So-called empty place is not empty, it is blank place and actual place set off each other, just form different association and emotional appeal. The most classic example is master qi baishi's drawing of shrimp, a few transparent and lively shrimp around the large blank, no painting water, but people feel around the empty space is water. The operation of the blank space and the real place of the photographic picture should also arouse the rich association of the audience, and make use of the blank to create artistic conception, which plays a creative role in other arts.

Landscape photography, usually beautiful scenery, but to take a good picture, take a new idea is not easy, if there is fog this god granted "beauty" to join, it is more patient to operate. Whether it is a big scene of clouds and clouds, or a small piece of moving scenery, the photographer needs to use a unique vision to capture, with a unique creative expression. Photography is the art of subtraction, the reasonable use of "white space" to enhance the artistic conception of the picture.

4. Focus on arranging the composition of photographic elements

In foggy weather, everything is covered by the original face. In the composition, we should pay attention to the shape and line, but ignore the original face of things. The combination of lines and shapes creates a more abstract image. Pay attention to the use of distance to reflect the depth of the picture. Such as parallel tree trunks, street lamps, telephone poles and so on.

Generally speaking, fog, fog when the visibility is low, is not suitable for the expression of a large scene, shooting the remote scenery is also due to the influence of fog clarity decline, dark color, so suitable for shooting close - based scenery film and some sketch subject. If it is light fog or flowing banding fog is suitable for shooting landscape, scenery and other large scene subjects.

When arranging the picture composition of fog scenery works, we should try to choose the pictures with distant, middle and close scenes to show the depth and air perspective of the scenery. Fog of scenery photography because of poor vision, middle details, so close shot often become the visual center, must be careful to choose carefully, generally should choose dark things for the future, as far as possible to jump out from the big fog, visual distance between, often can choose modelling beautiful tree, colorful rich details of construction, form a dark silhouette of the boat, the birds, reeds, irregular railing, working character as a prospect, good visual effects can be obtained.

In the foreground, the main body of the picture should not occupy too much area. In this way, a large area of light color can be used to highlight the subject with a small area of black tone, so as to form a strong contrast between light and dark, which is conducive to the expression of fog and to increase the sense of space and depth of the picture. Medium scene had better occupy larger area, prospect is the foundation that foil foreground and medium scene, pass before, medium, the different tone contrast of prospect, picture level appears more rich. In the shooting practice, specific shooting should be adapted to local conditions, give play to imagination and creativity, and fully express the characteristics and atmosphere of the fog scene, in order to get the ideal work.

5. Black and white processing of fog scene

The exposure accuracy of fog-scene works in the early stage is very important, because the definition and contrast level of the medium perspective is generally low, if the late excessive adjustment will often lead to serious picture quality decline, particle sense and color fault, so we should pay more attention to the exposure accuracy of shooting.

The later processing of fog scene is generally turned into black and white is a common technique, because the fog scene is generally low color saturation, processing into black and white pieces can often make the tone more simple, more expressive. Black and white photography because it USES a single tone of black, white and gray to show, and the reality of the color world opened a certain distance, can be said to be an abstract, with obvious subjective characteristics of the real world expression. More attention needs to be paid to contrast, light, contour, texture. To express the hierarchy accurately, special attention should be paid to the transition of the hierarchy. If you want to "de-color" and then convert to black and white photos with rich layers, you need a color photo with accurate exposure and rich layers.

In the fog, the scenery is indistinct, with rich sense of layers and space. At the same time, the fog can make the scenery incomplete, and the incomplete scenery can be recombined to form a new landscape effect. The natural blank left by the fog on the scenery will produce the artistic conception and effect in traditional Chinese ink painting. All of this, we need to carefully manage, aluminum photo prints treat seriously, reasonable control, seize the opportunity to draw the outline of the mood... .