Autumn photography skills In addition to looking for beautiful scenery, mastering uncomplicated shooting methods and techniques is the only way to appreciate beautiful autumn. In autumn, the natural palette has given enough material to play, and the artistic reprocessing of photography is the magic pen in your hand.
About the shooting time
When shooting autumn scenery, the best time is early morning and evening. The closer the shooting time is to sunrise or sunset, the more prominent the warm color is. Elongated shadows can show detail and depth. If you are shooting autumn colors in the forest, cloudy weather is the best, and a tripod is essential.
About light
In order to enhance the feeling of autumn, we might as well use sidelight shooting at dusk and sunset. At this time, the light is soft gold, shining on a large forest full of yellow leaves, plus appropriate prospects, you can express autumn! You can also see the texture of the leaves under the backlight.
On the application of lines
Lines play an important role in composition or shooting themes. Of course, autumn shooting can't be missed! Rows of yellow-leaf-covered trunks in autumn, the clear and concise dividing line between reeds and lake water, and the sense of extension formed by stone steps automatically form a good picture. Pay attention to the surrounding lines to make a composition!
Use shallow depth of field
When you encounter a distinctive trunk or a complete and beautiful red leaf, using shallow depth of field can avoid the clutter of photos and highlight the protagonist you want to shoot: increase the aperture, lengthen the focal length, choose a distant background, focus on the protagonist, and press the shutter, then your background will become blurred, and you can express the protagonist you want to shoot more effectively.
Use wide-angle and telephoto lenses
Wide-angle lens can expand the sense of space and shoot a "sense of scene", and telephoto lens can compress the foreground and background, which is suitable for shooting mountain environments covered with yellow leaves or red leaves on both sides of long roads. Sometimes you don't have to take the autumn element as the protagonist directly, but you can add the foreground or background of autumn when shooting other themes, which can make people feel the wonderful feeling of being in autumn scenery.
Color contrast composition method
If the picture is all red or yellow, which seems too depressing, then it is necessary to use the contrast of different scenery to form a unique color in autumn on a dark tree trunk, hillside or lake. This is definitely an excellent subject, with a house or blue sky!
Slow shutter
Using a slightly slower shutter (for example,110s or 1/20s), you can take abstract photos full of red and yellow by moving the camera vertically.