среда, 8 июня 2016 г.

Photographing mountain scenery

Photographing in the highlands has its own characteristics, without regard to where to get a good picture hardly succeed. Atmospheric conditions in the mountains is changing rapidly and unpredictably, while it is fraught with not only challenges but also opportunities to take spectacular photos.

Low flying clouds shreds, gradually dissolving in the rainy haze gave ocherchёnnaya clearly in the dark sample beam Distant peak - all this can be an excellent subject for landscape photos. In such circumstances, the photographer should be as operational and able to respond quickly to the changing environment and illumination.


It is known that mountain air is very clear. This is due to there low dust and moisture. Already in the 2000 m altitude the humidity is reduced by about half, and that is why atmospheric haze inherent in the flat land in the mountains almost does not manifest itself.

The best conditions for filming in the mountains is the period after the rain or in the morning when there is a light fog, and the air is saturated with moisture.

Slightly improved spatial perspective, when the foreground snatched dark objects. Photographing with the exposure to the optimal work out the details of such objects, causes overexposure distances, which has a positive effect on the final image.

When natural light, none of the photographic genre is not as complicated as compared with the mountain scenery. Shooting period in the mountains are limited to a rapid succession of atmospheric and weather conditions. The best results can be achieved at midday, when the lighting is most contrast. Mountainous landscape in itself contrasts, especially if the frame contains the snow-covered peaks bathed in sunlight and dark, perhaps covered with pine forests rocks located on shaded slopes.

The brightness difference of lighting and shadow areas in the mountains on the order of magnitude greater than on flat terrain. The clear mountain air scatters less light, so the percentage of diffuse light flux illuminating the shadow areas is small. In most cases, to reduce the contrast, it is necessary to choose a country in which the shadows are illuminated by reflected light from the illuminated surface, covered with snow.

The most uncomfortable and difficult lighting conditions are narrow and deep gorges. In such situations should be chosen areas consisting of light rock. Shooting in the canyons are often limited to a short period of time with the most advantageous for the scene position of the sun. Often, oblique sliding sun rays create beautiful lighting effects, but at the same time significantly increase the luminance range of the scene. As a result, the role of reflecting surfaces increases.

White clouds in the sky background reduce the overall contrast in comparison with the clear and cloudless weather. Typically, mountain landscape lighting occurs zonally - one tops the sun lit, and some, on the contrary, are hidden in the shadows. Best of all, if the further plans will highlight brighter than the neighbors.

Preparing for the shooting process in the mountains, do not forget to bring along anti-hood, because it is too bright, the sun shining on the mass of ice and snow can lead to the appearance of the veil in the photos.

Forming the composition of mountain scenery, should be based on the feeling that you want to transfer in the frame - a sense of the immensity of the world around us, savagery and pristine nature, the height of the mountains, the purity of the water of rivers and lakes, etc...

The mountain scenery is almost never used low horizon, because taken separately from the whole mountain range peaks will not be able to make an impression on the viewer. Obscheplanovye images are also undesirable because they abound in small details and look alyapovytymi and malovyrazitelnoe.

Shooting in the mountains of aspect in most cases, the photographer is very often necessary to attach the camera tilts up and down to turn into the frame the desired item, but it is fraught with the emergence of perspective distortion, which has to be tolerated.

All the charm of mountain scenery in the pictures are transmitted better if the survey was carried out from bottom to top. Building a composition, it is desirable to include in the frame of figures of animals, people or buildings, which will only exacerbate the majestic mountain scenery.

Due to the high mountain air transparency effect of almost all filters only increases, which sometimes leads to higher contrast and without contrast scene. If the sky occupies only a small portion of the frame is fine blue filter that best reproduces the atmospheric haze, thereby increasing the depth of space. For shooting snow, ice, mountain rivers with wet boulders on the banks best suited polarizing filter, because of its "anti-reflective" qualities. High contrast scenes, such as the dark rocks or pine thickets on the background of snowy peaks, better shoot camera armed semifilter is shaded. Using lenses with an ordinary enlightenment, the presence of UV filters is necessary.

To shoot in the mountains, it is best suitable small-format SLR camera, to which does not interfere to grab some raznofokusnyh lenses. A particularly important role to play wide-angle lens. Telephoto lenses are not used as often, but they feature "draw" plans often makes it possible to get impressive pictures of mountain ranges. The optimum set for small-format camera to include lenses with a focal length of 28 mm, 50 mm and 135 mm.

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