Summer scenery shooting Raiders

What season is best for scenery photography? I guess no one will choose summer. Most of the people in the movie would say that the scenery in this season is too light and the light is too direct, except that the high-profile scenery has not changed at all. Indeed, summer rarely offers a natural and exciting scene for landscape photographers. Blue sky, white clouds, red flowers, and water waves make you tired. The advent of wind and rain, thunder and lightning, and dark clouds make it even more difficult for people to pick up a camera and go out to shoot.

The most common light problem - over exposure

How to photograph scenery in summer has become a big problem. How is equipment selection, exposure, and composition different from other seasons? How do you understand what the master of photography calls "Summer is the best season for photographing powerful scenery photos"? This summer allows us to make full use of light, overcome exposure problems, and record the taste of summer.

Equipment articles - wide-angle lens VS telephoto lens

How to choose the lens in the summer scenery photography? Many people think that the weather is so hot and two zoom heads are enough for shooting. This is indeed the case from a convenient point of view. Such a lens configuration is both portable and practical. Compared with fixed-focus lenses at the same level, the loss of picture quality will not be too much, but it can cope with different scenarios. It is definitely a good choice.

So how do you choose between wide-angle and telephoto lenses? The wide-angle lens is preferred for landscape photography. The wide-angle lens can not only satisfy the photographer's requirement for depth of field, but also make the screen more visually impactful. Using a wide-angle lens can also make the composition more vivid, rather than simplifying the picture by blindly satisfying our need for composition.

Exposure

With the continuous improvement of the camera's automatic metering system, the probability of setting the corresponding exposure parameters is also gradually reduced. However, the summer light characteristics are different from other seasons, or they will encounter difficult exposure problems. However, with the characterization of light conditions, it also increases our chances of capturing rare video works.

The most common exposure problem in summer scenery shooting is the sky caused by overexposure. In addition to the rainy weather in summer, most of them are in a condition with adequate light conditions, so the choice of metering point will directly affect the exposure results. If there is not much experience and certainty in the selection of the photometric point, there is still a little trick that can solve the problem of overexposure in the sky. The use of a gray gradient lens can effectively darken the bright part of the sky, so that the dark part can be guaranteed. The details of the performance, the sky will not show a dead white.

In addition to using the gray gradient lens to suppress the dark sky, we can also reduce the exposure difficulty by changing the final image effect. You can choose to deal with the shadowy scene as a silhouette effect, so that you can shoot directly using the aperture priority mode exposure.

Tool accessories

Polarizer can effectively increase the visual impact of summer scenery photography. The first is to remove the negative interference caused by light on the image, such as the reflection of light on the surface of the water, and the glare of the backlight. Secondly, the color of the picture can be adjusted to make the color more vivid and rich.

However, the use of polarizers will change the amount of light passing through the lens, so pay attention to the appropriate adjustment of exposure and shutter speed. If you want to take a picture of the water in a very sunny summer, the light reducer can help you, but avoid using it with other polarizers.

Hyperfocal distance

When the lens is zoomed in at infinity, the closest limit to the depth of field close to the camera is called the hyperfocal distance. When the lens is focused at a hyperfocal distance with a certain aperture, the depth of field ranges from 1/2 of the distance to infinity. Applying hyperfocal distance is the quickest way to get the maximum depth of field or to control the sharpness of the image.

Manual focus method

Autofocus will interfere with your search for the hyperfocal point. You need to find a focal length with the largest depth of field through manual focusing. You need to pay attention to the focus distance scale on the lens.

Aperture method

Set a small aperture of f/11 to f/16 to ensure a sufficient depth of field.

Auxiliary method

Use the depth of field preview feature to see the true depth of field and use the camera's live view function to observe the picture in more detail.

Summer light features

For landscape photography, sunrise and sunset are the most abundant moments of light and color in the day. They are also the subject of scenery photography.

The best summer shooting sunset

Due to the nature of the season, the sunrise time in summer is about 4:30 in the morning, so it is definitely a challenge for photographers. However, the sunset shooting will be relatively simple because the time period of sunset will be extended and the summer may even be extended to Around 8pm. Therefore, it is recommended that everyone photograph the scenery at sunset. There is plenty of time to prepare, select the scene in advance, and compose the design. Wait for the best light condition and press the shutter again.

Color capture is important

Over time, the light is most dazzling in the afternoon from 2 to 3 o'clock in the afternoon, and it also causes shadows to lack levels. It is eroded by dark tone. Too intense contrast makes the light in the image very boring, so try to avoid this time period to shoot. .

Compared to other seasons, summer also has dramatic weather, which is generally recognized as bad weather. However, if you observe carefully and patiently, you will find that typical bad weather contains many worthwhile scenarios.

Compared with other seasons of rain, the summer rain appears to be the cleanest and most thorough, especially after the heavy rain, everything has a new look, and the color of the light has become exceptionally rich. But the most exciting thing is that when sunlight pulls back the dark clouds and returns to the earth, the light has the most colorful state, but due to its unpredictable nature, it is often ignored by the photographer. Must pay attention to observe and ensure that the camera is always ready to capture the most exciting moments, which also greatly confirms the sentence, "Good photos are waiting."

If you run into "sun rain," you may still see a beautiful rainbow. You can use a wide-angle lens to record the entire rainbow, or use a telephoto lens to enlarge the rainbow's fascinating brilliance.