Ten composition techniques for shooting landscapes are shared.

Composition is as important to photography as script is to film. If a photo is poorly composed, it will not win the reader's attention even if it has good photography skills and story content. The improvement of composition skills takes time to practice. This paper introduces some basic composition techniques to you, and illustrates them with photos taken with these techniques. These skills will train your eyes to observe the picture, which is very important for taking excellent photos.

1. Remember the trichotomy.

If you want to improve your composition, this is a basic composition skill that should be remembered. People's eyes usually fall on one third of the picture (up, down, left and right). When writing a composition, you should always remember this rule.

2. Space is your friend

Don't always try to fill the picture with themes. Leave some space. It can add a lot of color to your photos. Remember, space is as important as theme.

3. Make good use of geometry

Train your eyes to recognize lines, patterns and shapes. These elements can increase the sense of structure of photos and help to highlight the three-dimensional sense of the theme. Lines can guide the audience's eyes, focus on a topic, and then find lines that can point to it.

Make a photo frame

Using the foreground to form a "picture frame" can effectively guide the audience's attention to the subject. Please note that different shapes and sizes of "photo frames" are not only suitable for windows or fences. For example, in this photo, big trees form a "picture frame".

5. Avoid the horizon in the center of the picture.

First, ensure that the horizon is horizontal; Secondly, don't let it appear in the center of the picture. If the sky is more interesting, let the horizon be lower; If the earth is more interesting, raise the horizon.

6. Bring life to photos

Try to add something vivid to the photo. They can emphasize the size and proportion of the picture to the audience.

7. Avoid overlapping horizons

If the horizon intersects with the subject, it will distract the audience, and in serious cases, it may ruin an excellent composition. Take some time to change the shooting angle to avoid this situation. In this illustration, I pay special attention not to let the horizon coincide with the edge of the barn.

8. A single theme is enough to attract attention.

A single theme-such as trees, barns, buildings or motorcycles-can always make excellent works. I like to put them in photos. This picture is an illustration. There is only one solitary tree in the picture.

9. This is related to size.

Try to take something in the picture that can provide the audience with proportional information. People or things let the audience intuitively feel the size of the picture, such as the car in the illustration.

Think before you press the shutter.

Thinking before pressing the shutter applies to any kind of photography. Specific to this article, it is to make sure that there are no irrelevant objects in your composition. If possible, remove those objects, otherwise move yourself and try to avoid them appearing in the composition.

postscript

By following these simple techniques, you can quickly improve your photography level and point out the direction for your further improvement. The illustrations in this paper are not only suitable for landscape photography, but also suitable for other types of photography.