Shooting skills of landscape photography

Lead: Landscape photography is a long-standing and deeply loved shooting discipline. With the improvement of people's living standards, more and more people like to record beautiful scenery with cameras when they go out to play, and keep it as an eternal memory. If you want to shoot better scenery photography, you need not only a pair of eyes that are good at discovering beauty, but also some photography skills. Then, I will talk to you about the skills of taking scenery.

EOS 70D speed:1100s aperture: F 16 ISO: 100 focal length: 24mm.

Tip 1: Choice of camera and lens

? If a worker wants to do a good job, he must sharpen his tools first? So choosing the right equipment is very important for shooting. If you want to take high-quality landscape photos, you'd better choose a powerful SLR camera with high imaging quality and advanced focusing system. Although 1DX and 5D3 have higher image quality and functions, EOS 70D is a very cost-effective machine for shooting landscapes for photographers with general needs.

Wide-angle lens is most suitable for shooting scenery, because it has a wide field of vision and is more suitable for shooting large scenes. Canon's EF 17-40mm is the most practical wide-angle scenery photographic lens, with high cost performance and focal length, affordable price and good imaging. It is a necessary lens for shooting scenery.

EOS 70D speed: 1/30s aperture: F22 ISO: 100 focal length: 17mm.

Tip 2: Use a tripod.

Does anyone wonder that tripod is not a necessary accessory when shooting at night? Actually, a tripod is not. Because of its stability, it is often used in long-exposure photos during our shooting.

People want to have a panoramic view of the beautiful scenery when taking charming scenery photos, so they need to use a smaller aperture (such as f 16, f22, etc. ) to deepen the depth of field, so that the foreground and foreground can be shot clearly. Taking high-quality photos requires low sensitivity (such as ISO100,200), and then the shutter speed will be slow, reaching115 seconds or slower, which is easy to fake in your hand. It is best to use a stable tripod to fix the camera, combine the cable release, pre-lift the reflector and set the camera's self-timer to minimize the vibration caused by the shutter.

EOS 70D speed: 1/8s aperture: f8siso:100 focal length: 50mm.

Tip 3: Selection of filter

When shooting scenery, the exposure of the sky and the ground is very different. The brightest part is often the sky. If exposed according to the reading of the sky, the ground will be underexposed and dark. If exposed according to the luminosity reading on the ground, the sky will be overexposed and lose its layering. In order to balance the exposure, a medium gray gradient mirror is very necessary. According to the exposure readings of the sky and the ground, you can choose a filter with an appropriate multiple, so that both the sky and the ground will have more accurate exposure.

EOS 70D speed: 1/:30s aperture: F22 ISO: 100 focus: 16mm.

Tip 4: Focus skills.

Auto-focus mode is very convenient to use. The photographer can start focusing by pressing the shutter button half-time, and the camera can focus quickly and accurately. When using autofocus shooting, you can also use the focus lock to lock the focus, which is convenient for the photographer to move the camera to re-compose; Photographers should give priority to autofocus mode. Manual focusing is usually used in situations where the autofocus effect is not ideal, such as shooting through water or glass, scenes with different distances from the camera appear in the picture, and the color of the focused picture changes little.

EOS 70D speed:115s aperture: F 16 ISO: 100 focal length:: 24mm.

Tip 5: Accurate metering and exposure

Many landscape photographers mainly use aperture priority exposure mode to take landscape photos, and average metering is the most commonly used metering. As long as there are conspicuous bright spots in the picture, almost all the photometric values of the camera should be compensated for negative exposure. Even in rainy days with uniform light, as long as there are bright colors in the picture, appropriate negative exposure compensation (such as negative 0.3 or 0.7 exposure compensation) should be carried out.

Tip 6: shoot in RAW format

Although the photos taken in JPEG format are bright, if the contrast between light and dark is large, JPEG format will lose some information and details, and it can not take into account the light and dark levels well. Although photos taken in RAW format are larger, they contain more complete information and can be easily modified later. You can also adjust the white balance, which will leave a lot of room for post-processing. Use Photoshop or other software for post-processing to adjust saturation, contrast, light and shade, etc. To enhance the effect of the photo.

EOS 70D speed:1100s aperture: F:5.6 ISO: 100 focal length: 50mm.

Tip 7: Grasp the light.

Photography is the art of using light, and light has a great influence on the quality of photographic works. When shooting scenery, some photographers are willing to wait for a few days for a beam of light. The quality of light will bring great difference to the image. Bright light can bring color to life and highlight the outline of the land.

EOS 70D speed: 1/60s aperture: f11iso:100 focal length: 70mm.

Tip 8: Writing skills

The golden section is a reasonable composition rule. Although a little rigid, it is more in line with people's aesthetic habits. Of course, if the level is higher, you can not insist. Prominent foreground is a common shooting technique, which aims to highlight the sense of depth in landscape photos, help attract readers' attention, bring readers' attention to the picture, and effectively enhance the artistic effect and visual impact of photos. Rocks, flowers, fences, rivers, etc. Everything we encounter on our journey may be a prospect.

EOS 70D speed:115s aperture: F22 ISO: 100 focal length:: 20mm.

After the introduction of the above skills, I believe that everyone has a new understanding of the shooting of scenery and finds different beauty in the scenery that everyone is used to. Pick up the camera to practice and record the most unique scenery on the trip!