Sunday, January 1, 2012

The Best Landscape Photography Tips

1. High vantage points that give you a good overview of the scene are ideal - and if you have a camera that has the controller (eg an SLR) over the exposure settings, a small aperture of f/11 or f/16 you will keep an eye on everything .
2. The best landscapes are rarely found on the side of the road. So ready to look for a hike with a map or a GPS device in an effort to go the most interesting places.
3. Wide angle lenses are often used for landscapes because it allows you more close to the frame and open perspective. There is a wide-angle zoom lens gives you more leeway in setting the scene and cutting unwanted properties.
 
4.Early morning and late evening are the best times for landscape photography. This is because the low angle of the Sun seeks shadows and textures shows.
 
5.Whenever possible, to place something of interest to the forefront of recording a sense of depth. At the same time, make sure you use a small aperture to keep everything in focus.
 
6.Another great but simple landscape photography tip is to slow the camera on a tripod to anchor your pace of work at taking pictures of scenery - this means that you have less, but to make better pictures. Get an easy model to reduce the weight, if you do lots of walking to your locations.


7. Look out for scenes can you produce the upper and lower edge of the image to a dramatic "letterbox" panoramic composition.


8.Use a polarizing filter to darken the sky and saturate the colors in the landscape (this is a must-have filter for landscape photographers).


9.Use gray or graduated neutral density filter to darken the sky and to reduce the contrast between land and sky. Polarization filters are not much use for bright overcast sky, but the course filters. Often the sky is burnt in the photos, because the movies or record digital sensors do not have the range to the brightness differences between him and a dark foreground landscape. (Films and sensors are not as good as the human eye!)

10. Use the color correction filter to the color of light on a change of scenery. These filters can either warm up or cool it down landscape, used depending on the filter color. This image was a sepia filter over upside-down in the foreground rocks only color used.

11. Try a soft focus to an ethereal quality to add the scene. These filters blur the bright areas of a scene to be in the shadows, the image of a glow.

12.  If you are an experimentalist, try your own filters. There is no guarantee you achieve good results, but your photos will certainly look different. You can apply a filter of something that is at least partially transparent - a bit of old stockings, colored candy packaging, petroleum jelly rubbed on an old filter (not always rub Vaseline directly on a lens - you will ruin the long term!) Or you could try , breathing gently to get on the lens (in cool conditions) to a soft-focus effect.
13. Use Hyperfocal distance to get to the fastest shutter speed with the greatest depth of field. Hyperfocal focusing allows you to focus all of the things close to the camera far away to the. It is safer than just set focus to infinity. You need a camera that allows manual focus but.

14. If you are using a digital camera and your camera is capable of shooting RAW images as JPGs. The RAW takes up more space on your memory card but there is no in-camera processing on the image (since for JPGs) done. RAW images give you more latitude for image processing (Adobe Photoshop, Photoshop Elements, Paint Shop Pro or another image editing application package).

15. Be original! Develop your own style and unique vision. Any competent photographer can duplicate others' work. Really great photographers produce unique images. Avoid clichés Photography. Go for non-standard viewpoints, say from ground level rather than eye level. Set in front of the world as seen from an animal's perspective rather than a human!
16. Tell a Story! Why did you tell your camera? Well, for one thing, the people who watch a lot of fun images on a story about a snapshot of each day. Tell stories with your camera to force you to slow down and think about what you are doing. What is it about this scene that you can take a picture? What motivates you or pulls your eye? Is there a theme, a phrase or a position that you collect and preserved?

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