What are the methods of reflection expression in landscape photography?

In landscape photography, many authors skillfully show various reflections, and there are indeed many excellent works. Therefore, this paper wants to talk about the beauty of reflection from the perspective of photography.

The beauty of quiet reflection

Lijiang River is as green as jade, and the stone peaks in Yangshuo are majestic and beautiful, close to mountains and waters. The reflection of the mountain peak is elegant and moving, just like a fairy, which fully shows the quiet beauty of the reflection. In landscape photography, many works highlight the quiet beauty of reflection. However, some works shoot reflections, but the real scene does not appear on the screen, which reminds people of a quiet world from the quiet reflection.

Symmetrical reflection beauty

Reflection is always accompanied by its entity, that is, the "second self" of the entity. The so-called "inseparable" well describes the relationship between the real scene and the reflection. The reflection of many works, because it fully shows the beauty of symmetry, gives people rich beauty of association and symmetry. The beauty lies in that the reflection and the entity set each other off, and all parts of the scene, even the tiny plot, are perfect, just like a pair of conjoined babies, with a sense of humor and implicit beauty.

Symmetrical composition is formed by expanding the camera lens upwards and bringing the main scene into the picture with a quiet reflection. Symmetrical composition makes people feel balanced and harmonious, but it should also be changed to avoid rigidity.

Deformation beauty of reflection

Reflection comes from the entity, but under certain conditions, it is relatively independent and forms a completely different form from the entity. It is like an abstract concept expression technique in modern photography. If it is used well, it can make people have multi-level rich imagination. Such as shaking, distorted reflection, like naughty children's graffiti, but also like pure abstract curve patterns. For the viewer, let his own understanding arouse the wings of association and paint it with all kinds of colorful and wonderful colors.

With the turbulent changes of water waves, the deformed beauty of reflection splits into charming phantoms with different shapes and artistic conception. Some transformed reflections give vitality to the entity through the contrast between dynamic and static, curved and straight.

Shoot reflection

Wonderful reflections can be seen everywhere: rivers and fishing ports, lakes and ponds, stagnant water after rain, smooth floors and ice. And you can almost see all kinds of reflections. Whether it is direct light, scattered light or even night light, there will be reflection. As long as the photographer pays a little attention, it is not difficult to capture attractive masterpieces.

Specifically, you need to pay attention to the following points when shooting:

1. It is necessary to understand the characteristics of various reverse colors, master moderate exposure data, and correctly select the shutter, aperture combination and viewing angle. Because most reflections are generated on the water surface, bright reflections will deceive photographers and exposure meters, resulting in the illusion that the illumination is higher than the actual state. At this time, the aperture should be opened to compensate. To ensure accurate exposure, it is best to take more photos in stages and choose the most satisfactory one. The water often reflects light. In order to prevent lens glare, it is best to add a polarizer when shooting.

2. Composition should be mastered: the ratio of distant reflection to real scene is similar; Due to the different heights of viewpoints, the closer the reflection is, the more points are displayed. The height of reflection is inversely proportional to the height of viewpoint. Except for special needs, it is generally not appropriate to put the reflection in the normal water of the picture to form symmetry, and it should be slightly biased to one side, so that the composition will change uniformly and evenly to avoid rigidity.

3. The reflection in the breeze will often be divided into strips or deformed illusions, and intermittent or partial reflections will also appear on uneven roads due to accumulated water. At this time, you will often get unexpected results. Photographers should not miss this opportunity easily.

4. Neither reflection nor entity should be perfect. We should shoot more real scenes and less reflections, more reflections and less real scenes, or even all reflections without real scenes, depending on the scene situation and performance intention. Some distorted reflections are well taken. There will be interesting things to do.

Here is a supplementary introduction to a shooting technique to obtain reflection effect. Put a glass mirror about 10x 12cm under the camera lens. Because the lens angle can accommodate the glass mirror, the subject and the reflected image on the glass mirror will be brought into the lens together, and a charming "lake" will miraculously appear before you shoot the real scene, so as to obtain an "artificial" reflection photo, which can be taken skillfully and confused with the real one. However, it should be noted that such photos can only be taken with a single-lens reflex camera. Because the composition can only be observed directly from the camera frame, and the best effect can be obtained by continuous adjustment; In addition, the shooting viewpoint should be lower than the horizon of the subject, otherwise the reflection of the scene will not be seen from the picture.