Wednesday, July 9, 2014

Contemporary Landscape Photography Tips For Beginners

By Rosella Campbell


Landscape photography is one of the most interesting forms of photography in the field simply because it deals with taking beautiful pictures of breathtaking scenery. Now if one would want to take up contemporary landscape photography, he has to realize that it is not all just about snapping his camera at the sky or at some mountains. There are a lot of techniques that he would have to know about.

Now one of the most important things to take of when taking a good photograph would be to know when is the right time to capture the photo. Of course this would depend on what kind of picture the photographer would want to take. Most photographers would take pictures at either dawn or dusk so that they can get the best lighting.

The next thing would be to take note of the focal point while taking the picture. This is the key principle in knowing how to take a really good photograph. One has to decide which point would be the dead center of his picture before he clicks on the shot.

Now a tip on getting a good focal point would be to chop the picture up into four parts with the focal point as the center of these four parts. Now it is best for photographers to make sure that the focal point is a rather empty spot with the four parts all having some scenery in them. This technique is often used by beginner photographers in knowing how to locate that focal point.

One of the secrets of landscape photographers is that they would never leave home without bringing a polarising filter. The purpose of this filter is to make sure that the saturation and contrast is concentrated. Also, this would take out the glare that some photos have whenever there is excessive light.

Now if one would want to take pictures of seascape like beaches or cliffs, then what a lot of photographers would do would be to use slow exposure in order to take the water. This would produce a rather milky looking effect on the water that is really beautiful to look at. Now if one would want to use this kind of slow exposure, he has to use a tripod so that the camera is sturdy otherwise he will not be able to get that milky effect.

Now another great technique that photographers would use when they are trying to get the perfect balance between the lighting of both the sky and land would be to use some ND filters. One would often encounter some problems when he would take a picture of the land and the sky together because of the exposure. If he would use the ND filters, he would not need to worry about those kinds of problems anymore.

These are some of the tips that one can use if he would go into the field of landscape photography. This specific field of photography can actually produce a lot of beautiful photographs of scenery as long as the photographer knows how to work the camera. These tips will definitely be of help to him while he pursues this kind of field.




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