Use the weather and light to improve your photos

As the saying goes, scenery photography depends on the weather. In the shooting, we will encounter all kinds of weather, canvas prints red clouds all over the sky is beautiful, but it is impossible to shoot every time the fire clouds, and every photo is red clouds will also cause aesthetic fatigue. Especially when you are on the road, you can't choose the right weather to shoot in the same way as you do at home. Any weather conditions are possible. If you are lucky, you can get red clouds, but you can also get dark clouds or bright sky. Photography is painting with light, light and weather are closely related, and the same scene in different weather and light conditions presented by the atmosphere is completely different. Good use of all kinds of weather and light in the best creation time, help to improve the production rate.

Case study of all kinds of weather

For landscape photography, canvas prints online common weather can be easily divided into two categories: cloudy and cloudless. Cloudy conditions can be divided into burning clouds and cloudy, cloudless conditions can be divided into the sun and the sun is a completely different light. Facing the sun is what we usually call a flat sky, backlight, large light ratio, you have to use a filter to balance the light ratio, while the sun is in the opposite direction, and you will see Venus at the intersection of the horizon.

The basic concepts of different types of light, floating frame canvas such as backlighting, are not covered. Generally, articles on light are illustrated with examples of different scenes. In this paper, a group of examples taken in the same scene but in different weather and under different lighting conditions will be used to explain how to create with the best light in all kinds of weather. I believe that photos of the same scene can illustrate the problem more intuitively.

There are two important shooting times in landscape photography, the golden time of sunrise and sunset, and the blues time before sunrise and after sunset. The light discussed in this article is also based on these two periods. Prime time refers to half an hour after sunrise and half an hour before sunset. This time, due to the low Angle of the sun, close to the horizon, the clouds shine a warm color, often there will be gorgeous sunrise and sunset.

The blues, on the other hand, is the dark blue tint of the sky before sunrise and after sunset, when the sun is between -4o and -6o below the horizon. At this time the sky is close to the ground, the light is very soft,

A sunny day

There is the greatest variety of light on a clear day, with both prime time and blues as creative Spaces. But clouds and no clouds in the sky will be different situations; clouds will make the picture more vivid, high clouds than low clouds in the prime time color changes are more abundant, there will be a transition from red to orange to gold. If the upper and lower clouds are interlaced, the picture will be more hierarchical and three-dimensional. The distribution of cloud cover can be analyzed by weather forecast websites and satellite images.

It's cloudy

On cloudy days, the light is mostly scattered, and the sky is covered by low clouds. Even during the prime time, the sunlight may not penetrate the thick clouds, so the pictures taken on cloudy days are mostly blues.

The initial stage of shooting scenery is always looking forward to the appearance of red cloud weather, but also specialized in a variety of research, there is "no red do not shoot" snobbery. It was not until the shooting experience of bad weather in northern Europe that I had a completely new understanding of the concept of good weather, and finally realized the true meaning of "extreme weather makes a big movie". Cloudy days don't have a lot of color, but you can use long exposures to capture the flow of clouds.

Rain/fog/snow

It is difficult to give a precise and proper definition of atmosphere, which is a kind of feeling that can only be understood and cannot be described. It is the emotion and feeling conveyed to the audience by the photographer through various renderings. Rain, fog, snow and other weather is the perfect material to create atmosphere, can create a calm, large stretched canvas quiet or depressive mood, and can cover up many messy details, simplify the picture.