​Capturing City Scenery for canvas prints tip

Capturing City Scenery

City scenery is so modern and attractive forever, no matter how, urban landscapes always have several things in common: the modern cool, typical landmarks, perfect light. Actually the most familiar things tend to be ignored and forgotten, city life is no exception. Street fashion, urban construction, interesting details, dramatic scenes, beautiful night view, all are the goal you can capture. Are you looking to capture the city scenery for the city you live? You can turn some beautiful photo of your city onto canvas prints, to decorate your house. The following are some tips for your reference.

cityscape on canvas prints

No. 1 Location

A wonderful city scenery photo most of the time is to find a suitable location. City scene is usually in a site which can see the whole or the better part of a city. In addition, if you have a very good location field of vision, but the light is not good, also have no effect. So after you are sure to find a correct position, with some estimates the precise location of the sun or moon software, find the best timing light, plan a suitable time, could gain the good results.

No. 2 Light ray.

Like other photos, the light is also as one of the important details of a city photo. As a photographer, you should target in a golden moment or blue moment (at sunrise or sunset), the light of this time can make the whole scene is full of vitality. But this is not necessary, only for city according to this period of time to take more can guarantee the better ones. You can also do some tests in advance, to find the most wanted picture, if you find a noon light of city is the most good-looking, it is as you like, although time to noon.

When your eyes see natural light and city lights together, the feeling is very comfortable. Another way is to try in the sun or the moon light, mixed city lights, capture images, the federation of light make the photo more close to the viewer's real life, when people watch can feel more natural. You can take the photo transfer onto canvas prints, it will bring different feeling for your space.

No. 3 Focal length.

Unlike landscapes can be appropriate "deformation", city scene is not suitable wide Angle lens. Most buildings in the city are erected a straight line, these buildings need to stay straight and parallel as far as possible, so the telephoto lens is suitable for the scenarios, moreover we are from long distances to photograph the city, the telephoto lens is naturally so the most appropriate. At the same time, the telephoto can zoom compression, making the distant city buildings can be closer to the foreground, so that the whole city look bigger, more dense, so photos look more attractive, and rich details.

City sightseeing photo on canvas

No. 4 Panorama.

Because use telephoto lenses, city photography there are a lot of is panorama. This means that they are a few pictures or more stitched together. They also need to zoom to as much as possible for more details. Doing so is that the benefits of high resolution, more details, parallel lines. worst thing: take longer to do later. When you in joining together, the camera upright, to prevent the light changes, need to shoot pictures which are used to finish stitching as soon as possible. Connect the camera to pat patterns at the same time, set the focus, then manually all photos each set (including the white balance) are tuned into the same. Before making correction lens focal length and aperture, by joining together when the sky is not so difficult to join, you may need to manually adjust some focus. By the way, panorama canvas prints is the best way to display panorama photo on wall.

No. 5 Guide line

Cityscape is usually symmetric, but it also depends on the location. You can use the extension line type building, making it the tools you symmetric scenery figure. Bridge is a good role. The side of the bridge in composition, for example, to lead the line of sight of the audience through the whole picture. If you can try to make the two Bridges into your composition, capture a very symmetrical city figure, then you will make a good city scenery photograph.

No. 6 Diversity.

Most people love their hometown, each photographer will have at least one group of urban landscape. Although each city has been bettered several hundreds of scenery, but that does not mean you can't go to take. This is means that you want to break through the past, with your unique Angle paint has not been found the taste of the city.