Skills of taking good scenery How to take good scenery?

Compared with sports photography, hunting photography and other subjects, the shooting time is usually sufficient, and the photographer can make a round of ideas before shooting, so to shoot a good landscape photo, in addition to the beauty of the scenery, the composition also has a great influence. Many photographers have experience. Obviously, when shooting, the scenery there is beautiful with the naked eye, and the color and light and shade are very exciting, but the photos taken are always much worse than the scenery you saw with your own eyes. One of the reasons may be that the photo lacks the assistance of foreground or middle scene.

In fact, taking a landscape is not necessarily just taking a distant landscape into the picture, because it will make the photo feel like a plane. If the foreground and the middle scene are properly added, the content of the photo can be enriched. There are close-range and middle-range photos, and you can feel that the photos are a "deep" space. Photographers should pay attention to the aperture when shooting, otherwise the depth of field is not enough to cover all the scenes before, during and after.

When shooting, adding some plant foreground at the bottom of the picture can not only enrich the content of the photo, but also not be too conspicuous and distracting. There is a big tree and a cow in the middle scene, and there is a snowy mountain in the distance, which makes the picture have a front and back, not just an airplane.

2, there must be contrast

The proportion of object size in landscape photos has a great influence on the effect of photos. If the photographer sees majestic mountains and vast plains, the beauty of these scenery is "big enough", but after taking pictures with a camera, it is difficult to know how high and wide these mountains are from the photos, and the beautiful scenery will inevitably be discounted.

So it is appropriate for photographers to add something comparable to their photos. These things are often seen by people, such as people, animals, private cars, boats and so on. Everyone is familiar with the size of these things. By comparing them with other things in the photo, we can clearly understand their proportions. But some things are not suitable, such as buildings, stones and so on. There is no clear standard for the size of these things, but they can be large or small. It is difficult for the audience to know the size of other objects in the picture from these things.

3. There is an interesting center.

A good photo must have an interesting center to attract the audience's attention and convey information. In landscape shooting, golden section composition or tic-tac-toe composition is often used. Photographers can usually make more changes in the picture by placing the subject at the golden section or the TIC-tac-toe intersection in the picture without making one side of the picture too heavy.

However, it's too boring for you to look at the photos of 10 and 100 like this. Sometimes, if you deliberately don't follow those composition principles, such as putting an interesting center in the middle, you may get unexpected results, because the center is the position that can attract the audience's attention most, and proper arrangement will bring strong visual impact. If a photographer wants to put the center of interest in the center, he must first make sure that the center of interest itself has very high ornamental value, attractive enough and independent. Otherwise, it is not attractive enough, and the audience will feel bored after watching it for a few seconds, but there are only margins and corners in the picture, so it is difficult to become an attractive place.

There is no suitable foil in the sky. If the sun is placed at the golden section, there will be too much space. It's best to put it in the center of the picture!

4. Don't be afraid of the weather change.

The scenery photos were taken on sunny days, with plenty of light and colorful pictures. Naturally, they are beautiful. However, many photographers limit their landscape photos to sunny days and only go out to shoot on sunny days, but ignore that they can also take excellent landscape photos in rainy days, cloudy days, foggy days and windy days, and lose many opportunities to take wonderful photos. In bad weather, the light is usually dark, the overall color is dark, and the field of vision is also reduced. The most troublesome thing is the rain, which may wet the camera.

However, it is these characteristics that make it easy for photographers to create a mysterious, sad or calm atmosphere for their photos in these weather. Photography lovers may wish to try it, and they may find that they also like these effects. Some "wind chasers" even went to the beach to surf during the typhoon. Of course, we don't encourage people to take risks in storms, and safety is always the primary consideration.

The stereoscopic effect of shooting objects in rain and fog environment is weak, but it can set off the atmosphere that is not available when the sun shines.

5. Repeat and shoot again.

Many photographers have been to good places to shoot, and will not revisit their old places, thinking that they have photographed everything they should, and they will still have the same scenery next time. Although the geographical features of that place may not change much after decades, the sunshine, clouds, people and animals that pass by every day are different. Luck is also one of the factors to take good photos. I happened to meet the beautiful scenery this time and took a good photo. The second time I went, the sunshine and clouds were different, and the shooting effect was very different. So the photographer might as well go to the same place to shoot again. Different times, different seasons, sunshine, plants and clouds add up to different effects and change a lot.

Some professional landscape photographers will live near the shooting location for dozens of days or even months, and carefully observe the effect of light every day in order to find a better shooting opportunity. Although it may not take you months, it is good to try your luck a few times.