What are the skills to shoot waterfalls?

Techniques for shooting waterfalls are:

First, a wide-angle lens is easy to shoot momentum.

Even in a shallow stream with little water, a magnificent work can be shot with a wide-angle lens at a low angle on a tripod and a slow shutter to capture the details of the waterline flowing in the stream.

Canon EOS 30D+Sigma17-70mm2.8-4.5macro's 3 1mm terminal. Aperture F/20, shutter 0.8 seconds, IS0 100, manual exposure mode, automatic white balance, RAW to JPEG.

Second, the constituent elements affect photometry.

Before shooting, we should carefully consider the proportional relationship between dark scenes such as rocks and plants and light flowing water and bright parts in the overall composition. If there are many dark elements in the whole picture, relatively speaking, it is easy for the camera to mistakenly think that the shooting environment is dark. In order to make the dark object reach the normal exposure standard, it will decide to increase the exposure compensation by itself;

Results Although dark scenes such as rocks and plants were normally exposed, light-colored running water or bright places were seriously overexposed, which affected the picture presentation. Therefore, when metering, I will use the camera's spot metering or the central key metering, so that the bright part will not be overexposed, but the dark part can still retain more details and texture, making the three-dimensional sense of the front and rear levels more obvious and achieving the effect we want to express.

Canon EOS 30d+Sigma18-200mm F3.5-5.6 DC OS 35mm bottom. Aperture F/25, shutter1/2s, ISO 100 shutter required mode, automatic white balance, RAW to JPEG.

Canon EOS 30d+sigma18-200mm f3.5-5.6dcos18mm end. Aperture F/22, shutter 0.8 seconds, ISO 100. Shutter prerequisite mode automatic white balance, original JPEG.

Thirdly, emphasize the interaction between theme and environment.

After all, the photography of stream waterfall is a part of landscape photography, so we should pay attention to the relationship between the main body (stream waterfall) and the surrounding scenery when shooting. If you only shoot for the current, you will abandon the thinking of "scenery" and easily miss many beautiful scenery because you can't see the forest for the trees.

The theme of this painting is beautiful streams and rocks, which bring the environment near the river bank into the picture and let the audience feel the atmosphere of the scene. This kind of composition emphasizes not the scenery where the stream bypasses the rocks, but the charm of the scenery, which has a strong record.

Canon EOS 30d+EF-S17-85mm F4-5.6 isum21mm terminal. Aperture F/22, shutter 2 seconds, ISO 100, shutter required mode, automatic white balance, RAW to JPEG.

Fourthly, make good use of the prospect and grasp the characteristic flow curve.

When we stand on the shore and photograph streams, we often compose pictures in the form of inclination. We can look for leaves as the foreground and observe the curve changes of water flow, so as to shoot simple but flowing works. If you shoot down the stream at a low angle, you can also look for fallen leaves as the foreground, so that the flowing water layer can flow down the river, which will also make the work more layered.