10 landscape photography composition skills

Lead: Composition is as important to photography as script is to film. If a photo is poorly composed, it will not win the reader's attention even if it has good photography skills and story content. The improvement of composition skills takes time to practice. This paper introduces some basic composition techniques to you, and illustrates them with photos taken with these techniques. These skills will train your eyes to observe the picture, which is very important for taking excellent photos.

Tools, digital cameras

tripod

Tip 1 remember the rule of thirds.

If you want to improve your composition, this is a basic composition skill that should be remembered. People's eyes usually fall on one third of the picture (up, down, left and right). When writing a composition, you should always remember this rule.

Space is your friend.

Don't always try to fill the picture with themes. Setting aside a certain space can add a lot of color to your photos. Remember, space is as important as theme.

3 Make good use of geometry

Train your eyes to recognize lines, patterns and shapes. These elements can increase the sense of structure of photos and help to highlight the three-dimensional sense of the theme. Lines can guide the audience's line of sight, focus on a topic, and then find a line that can point to it.

4-structure photo frame

Composed of prospects? Frame? Can effectively guide the audience's attention to the main body. Notice the different shapes and sizes? Frame? Not only windows or fences can be used. For example, in this photo, big trees are made up? Frame? .

5 avoid the horizon in the center of the picture.

First, ensure that the horizon is horizontal; Secondly, don't let it appear in the center of the picture. If the sky is more interesting, let the horizon be lower; If the earth is more interesting, raise the horizon.

6 bring life to photos

Try to add something vivid to the photo. They can emphasize the size and proportion of the picture to the audience.

7 avoid the cross of vision

If the horizon intersects with the subject, it will distract the audience, and in serious cases, it may ruin an excellent composition. Take some time to change the shooting angle to avoid this situation. In this illustration, I pay special attention not to let the horizon coincide with the edge of the barn.

8 Individual subjects are eye-catching.

Single theme? Like trees, barns, buildings, or motorcycles? You can always compose an excellent composition. I like to put them in photos. This picture is an illustration. There is only one solitary tree in the picture.

9 is related to size.

Try to take something in the picture that can provide the audience with proportional information. People or things let the audience intuitively feel the size of the picture, such as the car in the illustration.

Thinking before pressing the shutter

Thinking before pressing the shutter applies to any kind of photography. Specific to this article, it is to make sure that there are no irrelevant objects in your composition. If possible, remove those objects, otherwise move yourself and try to avoid them appearing in the composition.

Note: Be prepared and leave room: It is best to arrive at the shooting location one hour in advance and make all the preparations for shooting.

Be patient: people who have no patience can't be good landscape photographers.

Be familiar with your equipment: the change of natural light often makes the situation of the subject change rapidly.

Take more photos: When you are intoxicated with the charming scenery in front of you, you will think that what you have taken must be perfect landscape photography.

Flexible use of composition: never apply the rule of three-point composition when shooting.