7 composition tips for landscape photography

Introduction: For a landscape photo, if the composition is not good, even if the photographer has good skills, he will not be able to win the applause of the viewer. To improve composition skills, you need to practice regularly. Here are some composition skills that allow photographers to connect the composition methods of the picture, so as to take excellent landscape photography.

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1. Picture balance method

Picture balance is very important in landscape photography. These balances are balanced with the horizon, which suits the ever-expanding landscape in front of us and most of the scenery people see. Horizontal lines help people compose their shots from one side to the other. Under normal circumstances, the photographed scenery appears in the composition structure of foreground, middle ground and background, but it can also be expressed in the form of one side to the other or top, middle and bottom. If the horizontal line is placed in the center of the picture, or the distracting elements of the composition always appear on the left and right edges of the picture, it will bring some interference to the horizontal composition.

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Composition method? Analyze the foreground and background

Choose a beautiful foreground and then observe whether it is suitable middle ground and background, and then analyze whether their relationship matches.

2. Blank and concise method

Blank and concise is a commonly used composition method in landscape photography. The so-called blank refers to the sky and the ground. White space is also an element in a picture. If considered in this way, white space can also form a balance with the rest of the picture. If a picture is full of scenery, it will make people breathless. With white space, people will feel cheerful and comfortable. Your eyes will also get a rest at the same time.

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3. Chiaroscuro method

Chiaroscuro is the cornerstone of composition. In practical exercises, People often use this method to express the relationship between light and dark in the landscape. In fact, most of the better landscape works use rich tones to highlight the natural scenery, and obtain rich levels of light within darkness and light within darkness. For example, use a dark rock to set off a bouquet of flowers, or set off a birch tree in the white snow.

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IV. Warm and cold contrast method

Under the same ambient temperature, the green grassland will feel The cool, empty desert will feel hot. This is a psychological reaction. This psychological effect is used in the color of photography and is called the cold and warm contrast method. It is a common method to use the cold and warm contrast of colors to combine pictures. For example, a small object jumps out clearly from the background and functions as a prominent point in the picture. In the same way, placing a small piece of contrasting color into the picture will have a focusing effect. Due to the implanted area There will be differences in size, and the contrast effect will also be different. The most obvious contrast effect is when the environment is bleak and two solid colors occupy part of the picture. This special color contrast is particularly prominent.

Composition method? Analyze the foreground and middle ground

Choose a beautiful foreground and then observe whether there is a suitable middle ground. During the observation, you need to consider whether the exquisite colors contrast with the foreground? Is the line shape beautiful? If it is not coordinated, the orientation can be adjusted.

5. The method of alternating density and density

The method of alternating density and density is a layout method that deals with the relationship between density and density in photographic composition. The dialectical art of density and density is manifested in photographic composition as: The sparse place can be used for carriages and horses, while the dense place is airtight. That is to say, sparse but not scattered, dense but not chaotic. A good picture composition must have sparseness and density, relaxation and degree.

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Author: Zhishui

6. Emotional release method

Some people say that how big a photographer’s heart is, what he shoots No matter how powerful the scenery works are, it can also be said that how deep the emotions of the photographer are, how broad the aesthetic emotions released will be. Because all actions of everyone are completed under the control of emotions, and various means of photographic composition are effectively used to express inner feelings in the process of managing the picture.

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7. Summary< /p>

The aesthetic nature of landscape photography allows photographers to consciously accept the influence and infection of beauty in nature, thereby achieving the development of governance, spiritual pleasure, spiritual purification, emotional stimulation, personality cultivation, and ideological improvement. Sublimation, making the creator unforgettable in scenes that touch the soul.

Because photographic creation is the interaction between state of mind, object lens and phenomenon, it is a process in itself. This process plays a crucial role in the management of pictures. Sometimes it is indivisible and unanalyzable. Once rationality is introduced and judgment is made, Reasoning means that the work is successful. Only in this unfettered state of mind can good works be created.