Equipment configuration of landscape photography

Lead: Landscape photography is the most common subject for photographers. The ancients said: if a worker wants to do a good job, he must first sharpen his tools and choose the right photographic equipment. This is the first step to success. This paper introduces the standard of equipment configuration in landscape photography.

The equipment for landscape photography is matched with the photographer. In the process of going out for landscape photography, it is necessary to prepare suitable and portable photographic equipment first. For landscape photography, photographers often need to travel across mountains and rivers.

And once you leave, you are unlikely to come back for equipment. Therefore, photographers should attach great importance to the preparatory work in the early stage.

camera

In the process of landscape photography, photographers should never ignore the function of digital SLR camera, which is very necessary for beginners of digital SLR. Digital SLR cameras can give full play to their advantages in terms of frame and resolution. In the practical scene mode of digital SLR, photographers can try to use the scenery mode, which is very effective for landscape photography of large scenes. In the process of shooting, especially the photographer who shoots the landscape outdoors, he can observe the shot pictures from the LCD screen of the camera and decide the choice of photos through the display screen, which is very convenient for the photo storage and space cleaning in the later stage of landscape photography.

In addition, the biggest advantage of digital SLR cameras is that they can change lenses, and photographers can change lenses as needed. Automatic and manual functions are very powerful, and photographers can choose exposure, metering, focusing mode, image quality and so on according to their own needs. This greatly meets the needs of photographers for different scenic tourism photography.

camera lens

Seaside scenery shot with wide-angle lens

Aperture F5.6 exposure time1180s focal length 18mm sensitivity 100.

For landscape photography, a wide-angle lens is essential. Using a wide-angle lens to express the majestic and panoramic beauty of nature can bring viewers unparalleled charm and shock of nature. Of course, the choice of wide-angle lens is also very important. Photographers should try to choose a wide-angle lens with a wide focal range. Because of the diversity of nature, sometimes even a wide angle of 28mm can't meet the needs of photographers. At this time, a super wide-angle lens with shorter focal length and wider viewing angle is needed.

Small scenery depicted by telephoto lens

Aperture F4.5 exposure time 1/250s focal length 124 mm.

For photographers who like to shoot panoramic scenery, although the use of wide-angle lenses is conducive to expressing the atmosphere of natural beauty, it is very difficult to express the photographer's self-style and thoughts. In addition to wide-angle lenses, photographers need telephoto lenses, which is just the opposite of wide-angle lenses. If the wide-angle lens is easy to express the majestic and informal natural scenery, then the telephoto lens is easy to depict the small scenery or delicate mood. For the depiction of such a small scene, photographers need to use their telephoto lenses.

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For landscape photography, the choice of accessories is particularly important. Because scenery tourism photography needs to carry a large number of lenses, especially to rugged or uneven photography venues, the protection of equipment is very important. At this point, the photographer needs to choose a durable camera bag to protect the camera equipment. At the same time, carrying a stable and light tripod is more helpful for photographers to shoot.

A landscape photo taken with a polarizer.

Aperture F8 exposure time 1/200s focal length 20mm sensitivity 100.

In addition, photographers with a little knowledge of photography know that color filters can play an important role in landscape photography and artistic photography. When appreciating some excellent landscape photography works, people often marvel at the blue sky, white clouds or bloody sunset in the works, and guess what kind of high-end equipment and superb shooting skills the photographer of this picture used. Not really. In most cases, it's just that photographers skillfully use color filters according to their own needs. Polarizers play an important role in landscape photography. Polarizer can eliminate the reflection, which is beneficial to clearly shoot the scenery in the water. It can also increase the saturation of the picture, further strengthen the colors such as blue sky and white clouds, green leaves and safflower, and make the landscape photos more saturated and clearer. So if the photographer has the conditions, the filter is of course one of the essential accessories.