Even if it’s still winter, when you least expect it, summer will come. And the hotest season of the year offers beautiful lighting for landscape photography. Waiting until the end of winter is a great opportunity to study and train some photographic techniques to practice when summer comes.
Summer is the time of year when flowers and trees are in full swing. Instead of brown branches, there are many green leaves; instead of dried grass, flowers of all colors grow.
- However.
- To photograph all these colorful elements of summer.
- You have to pay attention to the lighting.
- The mid-afternoon sun at this resort is usually very strong.
- Creating a lot of shadows and making the landscape photographs less beautiful.
As in all seasons, the best time of day to photograph not only landscapes, like any other type of photography, is the so-called “golden hour”.
The golden hour is usually 15 minutes before and after sunrise and sunset, the lighting characteristics of these times of the day are perfect for your photos of summer landscapes: the colors of the sunlight are brighter and have more yellow tones , these tones give us a feeling of melancholy, lightness and warmth.
Another advantage of the lighting of this period is the low incidence of the sun, which makes the shadows softer and more ideal for this type of photography.
Going down to plant and flower level with a wide-angle lens can be a good choice for you who want to capture a field of flowers, for example, these fields usually have lines that guide the view of who will look at your photo. , which makes the image very interesting.
In addition to searching for the most interesting parts of a green and flowery field, take the time to look for something interesting on the horizon, it can be a tree, an interesting combination of clouds or even the sun, these elements, if they are composed of the main characters of your image, make your landscape photographs even more beautiful, especially with the hottest and most vibrant colors of summer.
If you are photographing into the sun, use smaller openings to create a beautiful flash effect, but if you want to avoid this effect, place a sundance and avoid directing the camera directly into sunlight.
To take pictures of landscapes, it’s also worth using a tripod, especially if you’re in a windy place, it will stabilize the camera and soften any possible camera movement and the main element of your image. The tripod also gives you space, to compose the image more carefully.
At sunrise and sunset, the contrast between the sky and the foreground of the image will be too high for the camera to record many details in both parts of the scene. One option to solve this problem is to use a density filter on the camera lens. . This works by darkening the sky and making it look more like the other elements of the photograph.
To find out if the brightness of all areas of the photo is correct, select the camera depth of field button. If the hills and trees are projected into the dark part, leave the filter and make two separate exposures, one for earth and one for one for heaven?Then join these pieces for later editing in Lightroom or Photoshop.