How to take good scenery photos with Pentax K-3 camera

First of all, read the instructions carefully to understand the parameters and functions. It is not required to memorize them, but only what functions and parameters can be adjusted and where. If you forget, turn over the instructions.

The rest has nothing to do with the camera. Find a book on landscape photography for self-study, shoot more and summarize more.

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How to take good pictures of the scenery

If you want to shoot good landscape photography, you must constantly improve your self-cultivation and integrate natural landscape into your unique perspective. At the same time, we should constantly improve our skills and know how to choose the right lens, position and aperture/shutter combination. In order to take beautiful scenery photos, the application of basic photography skills can not be ignored under any circumstances. However, the use of any technique should play a role in setting off and rendering the theme. Works that play with skills too much can only make people feel bizarre and distorted, and cannot form the aesthetic feeling of the picture.

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1 Characteristics of landscape photography

1 has a wide range of topics. China has a vast territory, and the subjects of landscape photography are very extensive. 127; The prosperous scene of industrial base, the attractive scenery of rural fields, the brand-new look of urban construction, the customs of ethnic minorities and so on all provide inexhaustible rich materials for landscape photography.

Photos with deep artistic conception are good at conveying feelings with scenery. They express or entrust people's thoughts and feelings by vividly depicting natural scenery. Therefore, landscape photos generally have deep artistic conception, which can arouse people's deep association.

An experienced photographer is always good at finding the most poetic images in natural scenery and showing them on the screen with photographic art skills. Therefore, a good landscape photo is not only a simple expression of natural features, but also a simple pursuit of formal beauty, color and brilliance, and should have a profound theme.

The beauty of the picture is the beauty of nature. After the photographer's artistic conception and technical treatment, it became a beautiful landscape photo. The beauty of the picture directly serves the content of the photo. In order to express the theme of the photo in depth, scenes unrelated to the theme should not be included in the composition of the picture when shooting. Because, if you only pay attention to formal decoration, it will often reduce the appeal of photos.

4 Fresh colors The colors of various natural scenery are extremely rich. When these scenes are recorded on color sensitive film, the colors of landscape photos are particularly rich and bright. Even if it is recorded on black photographic film, the level of the scene is very rich. This is another feature that distinguishes landscape photography from other photography.

2 General requirements of landscape photography

The theme of 1 should be clear. Before taking a landscape photo, you must have a clear shooting intention, the theme and content of the photo, and have an idea in mind. According to this requirement, when taking landscape photos, we should boldly choose and avoid unnecessary and messy scenery from the picture, so that the subject is in the main position in terms of position, size and color contrast. Make the picture concentrated, vivid and beautiful.

2 Features We should seize the landscape photos and reflect different local characteristics, so as to greatly enhance the expressive force of the photos.

When shooting industrial scenery, urban scenery and rural scenery, we should not only pay attention to regional characteristics, but also pay attention to the characteristics of the times, and shoot the picture that best reflects the essence of our times.

It is the main task of landscape photography and the focus of shooting to highlight the new things and new features of China. Scenery such as wind, flowers, snow, moon, bridges and flowing water can certainly adjust people's spiritual and cultural life, but they can't be the focus.

3 landscape photography composition

1 Attractive scenery The first step is to find an attractive scenery. Photography is not simply picking up the camera and pressing the shutter. Before you press the shutter, you should ask yourself, what attracted you to this scene? Is it a color? Cloud? Reflection? Or sunset? . . . After determining the theme, the next step is how to express it. Usually, the subject should be large enough to attract attention. If the subject is too small, it can't be a subject. At this time, it is necessary to use a longer focal length or post-cutting to deal with it.

The most common mistake that beginners make when avoiding middle photography is to put the most attractive scenery in the middle. Indeed, the scenery in the middle is the easiest to attract people's attention, but a good photo should attract readers' attention and guide them to other places. If an attractive object is placed in the middle, it is easy to focus only on that object and make the picture dull. At the same time, try not to put the horizontal line in the middle of the picture, because it will easily lead to unclear priorities and not knowing whether to express the sky or the ground. But sometimes when the sky and the ground are equally important, I also put the horizontal line in the middle.

Since we want to avoid being in the middle, we should know the so-called "three-way", that is, the so-called "golden section", "nine squares" and "three-way" are the basic rules of composition, which means to draw two horizontal lines at 1/3 and 2/3 horizontally and 65438+ vertically.

4 Foreground Because we have two eyes, the world we see is three-dimensional, but the photos are two-dimensional. It is not easy to represent three dimensions with two-dimensional photos. Our brains tell us that large objects are relatively close and small objects are relatively far away, so people can feel the distance by comparing the sizes of objects in photos. In the world of photography, the effect of telephoto shooting is to' compress' the scenery together, while the effect of wide angle is to narrow the distant scenery and make people feel distant. Therefore, in this occasion, we generally use a wide-angle lens.

5 Simple Some people say that photography is' subtraction', that is to say, it is best to remove all the objects irrelevant to the theme from the picture, and the simpler the better. I agree with this view, especially for beginners, the composition should start with simplicity.

6 lead-in line "lead-in line" as its name implies is the path to guide readers' eyes into the picture. The lead-in line is a path, a small bridge and a small river. . . Or anything that comes into the picture. Usually, the lead-in line should guide the reader to the most attractive place in the picture, and should try to avoid guiding the reader out of the picture. The lead-in line is a part of the picture, so the lead-in line itself should be attractive and coordinated with other parts of the picture.

7 Sky In landscape photography, the sky is a very important part. Many times the sky is the main part of composition, and the beauty of many natural imaginations in nature is enough to shock people. Therefore, a good photographer should always pay attention to the changes of the weather, so as to sum up some natural laws, such as the sunset glow after the rain is the most beautiful, if the sun shines after the rain, you will see a rainbow and so on. . .

Everything in the world has a texture, and a beautiful texture is easy to attract people. Every time I talk about beautiful textures, it always reminds me of desert textures.

4 landscape photography practice

1 The scenery in the space should be clear before and after and have a certain depth to increase the expressive force. Backlight can strengthen air perspective and distinguish the distance between foreground and background from hue. The use of color filters can also enhance or weaken the perspective. When shooting a scene in the morning or evening, clouds can be used to make the scene have a perspective effect of far light and near thickness, which increases the sense of space in the photo. Because clouds can reflect sunlight, the fog is heavy in the distance, the reflected light is strong, and the negative film is more sensitive, so the color of the scene is light; The fog nearby is thin, the reflected light is weak, the negative film is not very sensitive, and the scenery is strongly colored.

2 time refers to the scenery photo, and it means the time of shooting. In the early morning, the prospect was shrouded in thick fog and looked hazy. At this time, the sun comes out of the east and scatters light through the morning fog, which can give people a fresh and pleasing feeling and a sense of progress. In the evening, the flaming sunset glow gives off gorgeous light, putting on heavy clothes for the surrounding scenery and shooting with suitable color filters, which makes the atmosphere of the picture more rich and infectious. When shooting urban scenery and industrial scenery, night lights can be used to render the atmosphere of night activities.

The performance of weather landscape photos is the background of the picture, which enhances the artistic effect and often pays great attention to the performance of the weather. When shooting a rain and fog scene, the light changes due to the reflection of rain and fog. Sometimes good results can be obtained. If you shoot in the sun, the foreground and background are easy to overlap and difficult to distinguish, and sometimes it is not very effective to use color filters. However, in rainy and foggy days, the effect of photos is very different. The reflection of drizzle can reflect the scenery and lights into reflections, making the picture very beautiful.

The effect of snow scene is also unique. When it snows, the light is dim, and it is difficult to express the feeling of shooting snow. When the sun shines directly on the snow on the ground, there will be a bright snow surface and beautiful scenery. At this time, if you add a yellow filter to shoot against the light, the tone level of snow will be richer and the texture of snow will be stronger. Snow has a strong ability to reflect light, so you should wear a hood when shooting to prevent the reflected light from entering the lens. The exposure time of backlight shooting should be calculated according to the dark part of the scene.

Clouds can decorate landscape photos, enrich content and adjust picture composition. Common clouds are floating clouds, clouds, flake clouds, strip clouds, fish scale clouds, sea of clouds and so on. , according to the seasonal characteristics and photo content to choose. Add light yellow and medium yellow filters when shooting to increase the effect of clouds.

4 focus and adjust the landscape photos not to be blurred, which will make people feel unhappy. So aim at the subject and adjust the focus, so that the clearer the prospect, the better.

If you use a small camera and a wide-angle lens, you can ensure the necessary clarity in almost any case. However, such clarity is not good for the overall depth of the photo, because the artistic conception of the photo has been weakened, and the scenery is clear and boring. In order to ensure the artistic conception of landscape photos, the range of scene clarity should not be too large. The maximum clarity of the picture should be used for the subject and foreground, and all distant objects should be slightly defocused. This picture has rich layers, clear priorities and deep artistic conception.

5 exposure control the exposure of landscape photos should be based on the main body, which requires accurate exposure. At the same time, the shadow part of the landscape must also ensure the necessary exposure. Therefore, the exposure determined according to the subject often needs to be slightly increased to show the details of the shaded part. Generally speaking, silhouette photos with the setting sun should be exposed according to the bright parts of the scene. For deep and dark forest scenes, or scenes illuminated by backlight, exposure should be made according to the shadow part of the scene, and it is best to use sensitive film with greater tolerance. When shooting scenes with moving objects, the exposure time should be short, especially when the moving objects are in the foreground. When shooting waterfalls, fountains, waves and other scenery, the exposure time should not be too short, otherwise the water will condense and lose its momentum. Generally,110-1/50 seconds is appropriate.

The position of moving people and other moving objects, such as trains, cars, ships, planes, etc. Appearing on the screen will make the scenery more vivid and the still picture more dynamic. But the activities of animals should be coordinated with other scenes in the picture. No matter the expression, action, posture of people and the size and direction of other animals, they should be properly placed in the picture to avoid usurping the role of the owner and becoming a burden.

In order to take landscape photos with moving objects, it is necessary to use sensitive film with high sensitivity and high photosensitive speed, otherwise, color filters can not be used and smaller apertures can not be fully utilized.