Five mountain scenery photography skills

If you wish to take photographs of spectacular mountain scenery, the best time is when you are hiking. But remember in the mountains you may encounter so many unexpected challenges. The following tips may assist you in to avoid some difficulties in the next hiking during filming.

1. Don't waste time on the "golden time"

In general, the best time to take pictures of scenery is an hour after sunrise or before sunset, which is the "golden time". Scenery in the changeful sun at this time will be very attractive, and full of change. However, if you want to wait for prime time in the mountains, you may be completely missed it or you will find the effects will not be as magic. Therefore, hiking in the mountains to shoot, don't waste your time to wait for "golden time".

2. Using the gradient ash filter

Light is more complex in the mountain, the problem which you will often encounter is that the sky over exposure or shadows area without any details. This is why gradient ash filter becomes necessary. Use Stan DE Z series square filter, you can balance the sky and ground scenery of exposure, and get more wonderful pictures.

3. Pay attention to the shadow of unnatural.

In the film, you may have to be back to the sun, use light to eliminate the shadows on front of the mountain. However, the result is likely to generate the shadow of the trees or other objects on the ground. It's not easy to avoid this unnatural shadow, you can arrange the composition beside the lake or stream.

4. Think carefully before shooting panoramas

When you climb the mountain, it is likely to see a spectacular panoramic views open picture. But no matter how hard you try, it's hard to take beautiful photos. This is due to the focus of this scenario is not clearly, it is hard to balance the picture. So, although there is no doubt that the immediate scenery is spectacular, but the picture you get will probably not have this feeling.

Usually it is better in the future include some objects, increase its balance and depth for images. Another problem of panoramic photo is the sky often makes the distant mountain with blue color. You can use a yellow filter or polarizer weakened partial color, but not completely eliminated.

5. Use ultra wide Angle record the whole scene

Huge scenes can normally attract live audience, so you should take some of these photos, or the audience will be hard to appreciate the beautiful scenery of you see. Sometimes the trees on the hill are very high, too fast to complete, at this point you can use the vertical picture composition.