Teach you how to shoot city scenery.

Lead: When we imagine the scenery, we always see the scenery with a wide field of vision or the majestic mountains. But what is the urban landscape? Cities are as striking as nature, at least in terms of vitality. Cities not only have sunshine and seasonal changes, but also endless crowds accompanied by noise.

Teach you how to shoot the city scenery and observe the city from a medium-distance perspective.

Usually we stand in a narrow building and observe the city from the height of the street. This makes people feel constrained and dark. If you want to bring life to a city, sometimes photographers need to find a middle-distance angle to give people a sense of intimacy. The magical time of day is before sunset and the moon rises. The outline of the city is still visible, and the buildings inside are flashing with lights. You don't have to look down, the moderate distance is still close enough to feel the city. In any city, there are barrier-free restaurants and bars that can give you a glimpse of the inside of the city. Google Maps is very helpful in finding such a place. Before you travel to a city, you'd better spend some time on it, which will give you such a medium-distance perspective. This photo was taken at the James Hotel in Lower Manhattan. The wide-angle lens gives the work and the city a sense of space.

Urban Landscape, Manhattan Photography: National Geographic Creation

Photo details

Camera: canon 5D Mark III lens: EF 16-35mm 2.8 II at 23mm shutter speed:1/6s aperture: f/4.0 ISO: 100.

A little further.

To really see the skyline, sometimes it's best to keep a certain distance from it. The Staten Island Ferry is some distance from new york City, but it is beyond the real perspective. This photo combines the city skyline, ferry workers and long-distance ships to create a picture? Come and go? Urban scene. 50mm for photos? Ordinary? In camera shooting, photographers usually need to stay away from the camera. With this lens, the photographer must pay attention to his position when shooting.

Manhattan skyline, Staton Island Photography: National Geographic Creation.

Photo details: camera: Canon 5D Mark III lens: EF 50mm f/ 1.2 shutter speed: 1/400 seconds aperture: f/5.6ISO: 125.

Not all the scenes take place outdoors.

Urban scenery can also appear inside buildings, and there is hardly a better place to take pictures than Central Station. This is the most dynamic place in the city, and one of the challenges of shooting is to give the photo a sense of movement. If you want to play it? Feeling busy? When shooting a movie, you can use a long shutter speed (originally as 1 sec) to insert the illusion of movement into the whole photo. In this photo, the man in white stands alone and quietly with vivid details. Is he the man for this job? Fix the Poseidon needle? .

Central Station Photography: National Geographic Creation

Photo details: Camera: Canon 5D Mark III lens: EF 16-35mm 2.8 II at 35mm shutter speed: 1s aperture: f/ 10.

Pay attention to the blend of people and scenery.

In a place like Central Park, people, scenery and city scenery can be well integrated. The park is spacious enough, and you can see the skyline of new york and the wonderful people activities around it. People are usually vivid elements in landscape photos, giving the work a focus.

Flying kites, Central Park Photography: National Geographic Creation

Photo details: Camera: Canon 5D Mark III lens: EF 16-35mm 2.8 II at 26mm shutter speed: 1/2000s aperture: f/5.6 ISO: 200.

Wait for the right combination of elements.

When you look for a suitable location to shoot, Times Square must make headlines. It is the destination of most tourists' journeys and one of the most photographed places in the world. How do you make it different? In this photo, photographer, street artist JR and his works? Internal and external engineering? . JR and some volunteers graffiti portraits of ordinary people in Times Square. These portraits and the overwhelming advertisements on them constitute this work.

Street Art, Times Square Photography: National Geographic Creation

Photo details: Camera: Canon 5D Mark III lens: ef16-35mm 2.8IIAT16mm Shutter speed:1160second aperture: f/4.0 ISO: 400.

overlook

Sometimes the photos are right under you. This photo was taken in the street below high line park, new york. The photographer is waiting for a yellow taxi to pass below. This taxi took this photo. It can let you know where you are without photographing the city skyline. Strong light makes the contrast strong, and shooting in this condition is a challenge. However, this photo is successful because of it. The yellow taxi is in sharp contrast with the black shadow.

Yellow taxi, high-speed photography: National Geographic Creation

Photo details: Camera: Canon 5D Mark III lens: EF 16-35mm 2.8 II at 35mm shutter speed:1/800s aperture: f/7. 1 ISO: 200.

Fixed camera in low light mode

Even if photographers are allowed to take tripods to the 86th floor of the Empire State Building, it is impossible to use tripods because there are too many people there. Imagine the most congested driveway on earth, and the night on Fifth Avenue is just as you think. Photographers have to squeeze out some space, take some scenery and squeeze it out. As the sun sets, the city becomes vivid, so how to keep this scene in the photos becomes a problem. This generation of SLR cameras performs well under high ISO. Fix the camera on the guardrail and use an unusually slow shutter to give a good answer.

Overlooking Fifth Avenue Photography: National Geographic Creation

Photo details: camera: Canon 5D Mark III lens: EF 50mm f/ 1.2 shutter speed: 1/50 seconds aperture: f/2.5 ISO: 1000.