Photographic landscape building skills

Composition is as important to photography as script is to film. If a photo is poorly composed, even if it has good photography skills and story content, it will not resonate with readers. The following are my photography landscape composition skills for your reference! I hope it will help everyone.

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.

Build a picture 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".

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.

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.

Avoid the intersection of vision.

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.

A single theme is eye-catching.

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.

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.

Remember the dichotomy.

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.

Space is your friend.

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

Photometric skills of landscape photography

Multi-area photometry

The picture is divided into several areas, each area uses an independent photometric element to measure light, and then the internal microprocessor averages the exposure.

Central key average photometry

The camera usually focuses on the center of the picture (about 60% of the picture), taking into account the edge of the picture.

Local (central) photometry

The photometry element of the camera will photometry the area where the center of the picture accounts for about 12% of the picture, and finally carry out average weighting to obtain photometry data.

Spot photometry

The metering element will measure light in a small area where 1%-3% is measured in the center of the picture.

Multi-area photometry

The advantage of this metering method is that it can accurately and evenly expose the light in the scene environment, which is the exposure method that most primary filmmakers prefer to choose.

Central average photometry

When there are Gao Fancha or different colors in the picture, the camera will measure several areas and emphasize a certain area according to the photographer's needs.

C. local (central) photometric determination

This metering mode is very suitable for taking landscape photos with the subject in the center of the picture, but the subject and background are very different.

D spot photometry

This metering mode is mostly used when the photographer wants to fully express the subject, in other words, "measuring who wants to stand out".

Observe the blue sky

Use the central focus or matrix photometry method to read the numerical value of the sky, expose it according to it, and shoot sunrise, sunset, sunny and snowy scenery, evening night scenes and so on. The biggest trouble when shooting is to pay attention to the interference of the sun in the picture. This requires pointing the camera at the sun, which is not included in the picture, and reading the value. But this method has a taboo: cloudy days. Don't look at the cloudy day, it's not good.

Pay attention to flowers and trees

Meet waterfalls in the forest and fields in a cloudy world. The center button photometry mode frames the whole picture with green plants, reads the numerical value, and then shifts to -2/3 (ordinary green) to-1. Third gear (dark green) compensation, which is correct for exposure value.

Use your palm.

When you are not sure about exposure value, under the same lighting conditions, stretch out your palm, fill the whole picture or almost the whole picture with your palm, read the data with the central key, and then make some exposure compensation according to the actual effect, that is your exposure data.

People should not be underexposed and the scenery should not be overexposed.

Landscape photography mainly emphasizes the tone level, and has a high tolerance for the overall noise of the picture. Therefore, as long as there is no highlight washing in the early stage, landscape photos with rich levels, bright colors and moderate noise can be obtained through adjustment and modification in the later stage. The metering principle of cameras (digital and various films) is not complicated. The most important thing is to understand what the camera's metering system (or exposure meter) is based on! In layman's terms, it is how the camera "thinks" what it sees when measuring the light of a scene.