Seven most commonly used construction techniques in landscape photography

Lead: Landscape photography may be the first photography category for beginners and the fastest to get started. In the face of beautiful scenery, most of us have the impulse to shoot with our cameras up. When we pick up the camera, the first and most important thing is composition, from which people watch a photo. Composition is a geometry course, because the word composition comes from Latin, and its original meaning is structure, composition and connection. Composition is the process of refining and abstracting everything in the world into points, lines, surfaces and various figures. Mark Lyu3 bu4 once said: Photography is geometry.

The seven most commonly used composition techniques in landscape photography, or you can think of it this way: photography is sometimes like a chess game. You can think of the camera frame as a chessboard, and the object you want to shoot is your chess piece. Think about how you want to arrange and manage them. If you win this game, no one will compete with you. You should overcome your past self and make your next photo better. Let's choose the seven most commonly used composition techniques in landscape photography. I hope these? Most? You can open the door of your landscape photography.

Ricardo Lille

One: the most plump-composition by three-point method

Triangular composition may be the most commonly used composition method in landscape photography. Many good landscape photography works are composed of foreground, middle scene and background, or foreground. This composition method can well represent the level of the scene and fill the picture full. This photo was taken in Tianshan Ranch, Xinjiang. The photographer cut out a large piece of nature with a telephoto lens and divided the whole picture into three parts. The wild flowers in the grassland in the foreground are bright yellow, which is different from the scene and background in the middle. Cattle and sheep on the green grassland in the middle scene become the eyes of this painting, and the grassland in the foreground is mottled with light and shadow, which has a certain perspective effect. This way of composition is clear and full. It is always an important step to make full use of the lines and colors existing in nature to find points, lines and faces.

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Two: the most interesting-diagonal composition

In landscape photography, you must exercise yourself and try to look at the world with abstract geometric eyes. You will find that nature itself is a bit, line and surface. Imagine if you look at a photo, all the lines in the photo are horizontal and straight. Although it can bring you a sense of calm and balance, it will also make the picture boring and tired. So look for curves and diagonal lines to destroy the picture and make it interesting. Diagonal composition is a very common way, allowing the edges of lines or scenes to be separated by diagonal lines. The following photo was taken on a section of the Sichuan-Tibet Highway. In the alpine valley, the brown mountain is cut off by a black asphalt road, and the winding road extends from the lower left corner of the picture to the upper right corner of the picture, that is, the plane divides the picture, forming a good visual guide line, which makes the whole picture have a sense of perspective. Pay attention to the motorcades on the highway. These cars look small against the big mountains. They play a role in expressing the proportion of scenery in the picture, and also add a little vitality to the desolate scenery.

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Three: the most abundant-using the framework

How to take a plane photo full of three-dimensional depth? In fact, you only need to take some real or invisible frames as the foreground in the picture to frame the theme you want to express, which will make the picture have a strong perspective effect. For example, you can frame a person with a door and live in a building with a window frame. Of course, you can't use this trick in all situations. If the picture frame itself has no certain aesthetic feeling or is irrelevant to the theme, don't use it. However, when some pictures are closely related to the theme, can enrich your picture content, or help to express the atmosphere of a scene, you can boldly use them.

Sometimes, the frame is not only a simple visual element in composition, but also carries more functions and meanings. The foreground we use most often is frame objects, such as doorframes, window frames, branches, arches, and the edges of buildings, which can form a sense of composition. There are also many commonly used foreground elements, which are very useful in expressing the relationship between depth of field and perspective, such as large-area colors and moving flowers and plants, which can set off the atmosphere by blurring.

This photo was taken at the site of Ali Guge Kingdom in Tibet. The main building of this site is in the shape of a pyramid on a soil forest. If you show it alone in the picture, it is not bad under the light blue sky in Tibet, but it always feels less interesting. Using a hole in the earth wall as a frame, the audience's eyes can easily focus on the theme behind the frame. This frame composition is very suitable for showing such historical buildings.

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Four: the most concise-minimalist blank space

If painting is addition, then photography is subtraction, especially in landscape photography, only by removing messy scenery and redundant elements can we get natural scenery. Blank space was originally the most commonly used creative language in China ink painting, and it still works when transplanted into photography. A large area of blank space, because of the proportion of simple scenery, appears ethereal and lonely, just like the picture of a tree on this snowy field. Blank can better reflect the beauty of oriental artistic conception in silence than in sound, and is often used in photo photography. Everyone may wish to try this method when creating landscape photography, which will make your photography full of artistic conception and express different emotions. When composing a composition, pay attention to choosing specific and formal scenes to set off the blank space. Minimalism is not empty, but it can also be rich.

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Five: the most symmetrical-mirror symmetry

The mirror effect is very charming, as if it is magical, and it is also a composition effect that photographers often use when shooting landscapes. Perfect and symmetrical mirror effect is very aesthetic in form. There are many scenes in nature that have specular reflection effect, and the calm water surface is the most common one. I even found the perfect mirror effect on the car body. Symmetry is necessary when taking a mirror photo. The perfect symmetry effect of dividing the picture into two makes the ordinary scenery like a fairyland. When taking mirror photos, we should pay attention to balance the light ratio between the actual scene and the water reflection scene. Generally, the brightness of the actual scene in the upper part of the picture will be brighter than that of the reflected scene. Generally, the gray gradient mirror can be used to balance the light ratio and achieve perfect symmetry effect.

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Six: the most fuzzy-fuzzy occlusion

In fact, blurred foreground should be a manifestation of picture composition. By using a large aperture or telephoto lens, the foreground can be blurred, and color blocks or spots can be formed, so that the original ordinary scene can become an element of composition and contrast atmosphere in the picture. In the picture below, the photographer blurred the colorful flags in the foreground into irregular blocks, focused on the distant snow-capped mountains, and combined two important elements of Tibetan areas into a picture, which also improved the two levels of the picture, so it is said to be two levels, one is the depth of field, and the other is the taste and aesthetics of the picture.

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Seven: the most perspective-far perspective

A photo is flat, but the scenery can have depth. How to express the depth of the scene? This requires the perspective principle. There are many perspective lines in natural scenery that guide people's eyes to the theme of the picture, such as this picture of a snowy mountain river. The winding curve of the river leads the viewer's eyes to the distant snow-capped mountains, which well reflects the depth of the scenery and makes the whole picture look very deep. The combination of wide-angle lens and larger aperture is generally used to shoot such a picture, so as to obtain greater depth of field.

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