3/25/2017
Landscaping PhotographyYou should never head out on landscapes in new locations without using a good map, you should at least research some of the trails that you will be on so you know your way back. You should already have wokr out elevations and know exactly where the mountain peaks, lakes and scenic places are, which road you should take and how to reach them, you will need to the best positions to photograph the landscapes from. This also means that all you need to think about is taking brilliant shots, as soon as you get where you need to be.
Think about your scenes and how to find where you are and where you should shoot from to make the most of your surroundings. The sun's position in relation to the landscape around you, will ensure you're in the right place at the perfect time. Before you start ever click that shutter and start taking landscapes, stop to survey the lie of the landmass. Make sure you're in the best shot posible in alliance to the position of the sun. Also look for a focal point that leads the eye into the photograph, maybe it's a farmhouse, a line of trees or foreground interest. Whatever it is be sure of what is in the image, and that you want it to be there. Some common mistakes when taking landscapes, is that we get out of the car, take a few hand-held snaps of the scene, and drive off again. To improve your photographs, use your feet for the zoom. Walk around, get down to the lakeside, base of the mountain, or even walk up to a higher viewpoint, just so you're involved in the scene rather than just a passing viewer. This will incredibly help to improve your compositions. Golden hours of a sunrise are an hour or so after, and with a sunset and an hour or so just before, which are the best times of day for capturing a scenic landscape shot. and just to add to it, added with spectacularly colourful skies will make a gorgeous landspace image. Clear skies with just a small smattering of clouds will usually create some of the most colorful skylines. It is always best to shoot landscapes using your camera's RAW quality setting, the resulting images will contain much much more information, then the common JPEG. Which also allows you to scope more contrast, increase or decrease the exposure, or just enhance the tones, colours in Adobe Camera Raw, without ever compromising quality. You'll can often find yourself shooting landscapes in low light conditions, so its up to your shutter speeds to fight it, if your shooting to slow of shutter speeds it begins to keep the camera steady enough to shoot hand-held without risking camera shake. When shooting scenic landscapes, also best if you use your camera's manual autofocusing point selection. If you leave your camera on auto point selection, chances are it will only focus on objects closest to your lens, which is not an ideal problem when shooting landscapes. If in doubt, select the central AF point, then focus 'one third up' the scene to ensure your photos are sharp from front to back. Use a wider aperture such as f/2.8 for a more shallow depth of field and a narrower aperture such as f/22 to create a deeper depth of field view. As you'll be shooting with a tripod you won't be needing to obtain fast enough shutter speeds to shoot out of hand, so keep your ISO locked to its lowest setting of ISO 100. You'll be able to capture reasonable landscape shots with your standard 18-55mm, 24-70mm lens at its widest focal length. To take really expansive, dramatic landscape shots you'll be better off with a decent wide-angle zoom lens. Try to have a lens with a focal length range of around 10-20mm for dSLRs with a crop factor of 1.5x/1.6x. ~Jordan Shaw Credits to www.techradar.com & www.techradar.com/author/jeff-meyer |
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