Aperture setting skills of landscape photography

1, Optimal Aperture: Aperture not only controls the exposure, but more importantly controls the depth of field to achieve a unique effect. Theoretically, when taking landscape photos, the aperture should be as small as possible to obtain a large depth of field, that is, the front, middle and back scenes are clear. However, practice has proved that it is difficult for many brand lenses to achieve ideal clarity and sharpness when they exceed F 18. Therefore, it is suggested to increase the aperture setting from the minimum aperture value by 2 to 3 steps, that is, the optimal range is between f 13- 16.

2. Focus mode and focus: Generally speaking, the subjects of landscape photography are mostly static or relatively static objects, so we'd better set the focus mode to single autofocus and the focus to single autofocus.

3. Exposure mode: Among the four available modes: program exposure (P), shutter priority (S), aperture priority (A) and manual (M), a novice should choose aperture priority (A). This is because, in this mode, when you choose the aperture, the camera will automatically choose the shutter speed that can produce the best exposure, and in general, we need to control the depth of field effect through the aperture size when shooting landscape photos.

4, metering method: under normal lighting conditions, it is best to choose the central button metering. However, if the lighting situation of the scene is complex and the tone level of the whole picture needs to be taken into account, the average photometry method should be adopted. Special attention should be paid to the selection of "points" when measuring: first, the selection of measuring subjects should be accurate; Second, the brightness of the metering object should not be too high or too low to prevent overexposure or underexposure.

5. White balance: Whether this setting is appropriate or not will directly affect the quality of photo color reproduction. Scenery shooting is carried out under outdoor natural light conditions. Whether it is sunny, cloudy or foggy, the color temperature will be within the range of 4500-7000 K automatically corrected by the camera, so the "automatic" white balance mode is generally selected. If you want to pursue special color creativity, you can achieve warm or cold effects by increasing or decreasing the color temperature.