Simple four strokes to shoot distinctive landmark buildings

Lead: When traveling, most people will come to the local landmark buildings to take photos as a souvenir. Over time, these buildings can no longer stimulate the visual experience of tourists, so it is a pity not to take pictures. Do you need some tips to take a new photo at this time? You know? These buildings may take photos of your favorite landmark buildings. This article will develop four shooting techniques for you to make these landmarks look less normal.

Take a simple four-stroke characteristic landmark Tip 1 and turn a color photo into black and white.

Indeed, this is a simple method. Black and white photos always make people feel strong and durable. Black and white photos are not affected by the weather. In contrast, color photos are obvious. Exquisite In case of cloudy or rainy days, the photos are inevitably unsatisfactory. Try changing to monochrome (black and white) mode, and another feeling may impress you.

Model: EOS 50D speed: 1/250s aperture f11ISO:100 Focus: 16mm Low angle, super wide angle, black and white effect is more shocking.

Generally speaking, there are two forms of making black and white photos. One is monochrome shooting with a camera, and the other is RAW format shooting, which is converted into black and white mode in the later software. The latter is recommended here, because the dynamic range of RAW format is wider and there is more space in the later stage.

Model: EOS 5D Mark III Speed: 1/50s Aperture F4 ISO: 100 Focus: 24mm high angle, overhead shot, black and white effect. The photos above are post-produced in three RAW formats, and the multi-level black and white tones make your photos look more classy.

Tips2 boldly use spaces

Sometimes, the beautiful photos we see are simple, even as simple as the subject only takes up a small part of the picture, but we don't think the photos are empty, so you can try one or two large blank photos when shooting buildings, but you should seriously think about where the subject should be placed.

Model: EOS 5D Mark III Speed:110s Aperture: F8 ISO:200 Focus: 6 1mm Pure dark blue background is used to highlight the exquisiteness of Kuala Lumpur Tower, and cool and warm colors are also reflected here.

Model: EOS 5D Mark III Speed: 1/320s Aperture: F7. 1 ISO: 100 Focus: 70mm The huge sky just highlights the towering Twin Towers.

The above two photos were taken in a large area, but the photos are very interesting and you can recognize what the building is at a glance. For most people, you always want to take all the buildings into the picture, but often everything in the picture is not outstanding. The ultimate goal of this method is to attract the first visual focus.

Tips3 borrow props to assist shooting

In fact, many ideas are interlinked. Shooting toys can also make toys the finishing touch in your photos.

Model: EOS 5D Mark III Speed:1160s Aperture: F7. 1 ISO:50 Focus: 70mm Twin Towers are far behind, but they reflect the local environment.

Putting your car in the middle of the road at the risk of your life, the visual focus is of course on the car, but with the extension of the picture, you can clearly identify where it is, which is also the purpose of taking commemorative photos. You can use props to properly interpret interesting travel photos.

Model: EOS 5D Mark III Speed: 1/80s Aperture: F 14 ISO: 100 Focal length: 70mm to reproduce the retro feeling.

The above two photos show the Petronas Petronas Twin Towers, a landmark building in Kuala Lumpur, from different angles, but use the same props. They don't shoot Petronas Petronas Petronas Twin Towers directly, but indirectly integrate the buildings into the picture. It is precisely because of the addition of props that the picture comes alive and becomes story-telling. If you are imaginative and can take a series of photos, your photos of tourist buildings will become very valuable.

Tip 4 Choose the right time to shoot.

If you want to gain something from this trip, then the shooting time must be considered. Only sunrise and sunset are recommended here.

You can easily find the local sunrise and sunset time from the Internet. The light in these two periods is softer and the color feels good. Gold will cover the building in a short time, and the sunset will make the photos more beautiful.

Model: EOS 5D Mark III Speed: 2.5s Aperture: F 16 ISO:50 Focus: 35mm The golden tone sprinkled on the Malacca River is very charming.

As the sun goes down very fast, you have to arrive at the shooting location a period of time in advance, set up a tripod, prepare some compositions in the shooting first, and shoot as soon as the light arrives. It's best not to shoot a replay, which will delay the time, and the shooting will end in ten minutes at most.

Model EOS 5D Mark III Speed: 80s Aperture F 16 ISO:200 focal length 45mm When the sun shines on the building, it is very warm.

It is also suitable to wait for the shooting of flaming clouds after sunset, but if there is no flaming clouds, the sky will also reflect some gorgeous colors. You just need to take more photos to get photos with great colors.

When shooting architectural photography, some people mentioned using shift-axis lens (such as Canon TS-E 17mm f/4L) to shoot architecture, because there is almost no perspective in this way. When we are traveling, this kind of characteristic lens can be completed by ordinary lens unless it is used in more rigorous landscape photography. The above four tips can also be used as a reference to help you take unusual photos in architectural photography during your trip.