Landscape photography is one of the most popular genres going, but that means that finding ways to make your images stand out from the crowd is becoming harder than ever. The solution, as with most things in photography is to be creative and try new approaches to your picture taking.
With this in mind, we’ve pulled together five great tips that may help your take your landscape images to the next level and outshine the competition. Let’s get started. . .
Use Natural borders:
Including a natural border with your landscape image serves a double purpose. You can use leaves, the stones of a wall, anything, but the border instantly helps place the viewer in the surroundings, helping them connect with the environment. What’s more, adding a border will frame the images, helping to focus viewer’s attention towards any main focal points in the middles of the frame.
Branches and other greenery works well as a natural border.
Play around with scale:
Many photographers make the mistake of always trying to the main subject fairly large in the frame. A little variation can work wonders and placing a subject so that it’s tiny in the frame can somehow increase its importance in the picture. Combining a scene with plenty of negative space with your small scale subject can enhance the impact of the effect.
Playing with scale helps tell a different story.
Shoot in silhouette:
Photographers spend huge amounts of time trying to achieve perfect exposures to ensure the scene is perfectly lit. However, by purposely underexposing your subject, you can cast them into an inky silhouette, focusing the viewer’s gaze on their shape and form, rather than being distracted by colour. Silhouettes work even better when you frame your subjects against dramatic skies, so consider shooting at sunrise and sunset.
Go back to black with a striking silhouette.
Be part of the image:
Just because you’re taking the images, that doesn’t stop you from becoming part of the image. By including yourself in the frame, you only add instant scale to the scene, but you also change the perspective. Look at the pose of this image; the position of the legs makes it look like the camera’s view is actually the photographer’s first-person view.
Switch up perspectives by becoming part of the image.
Inject some texture:
Sometimes you’ll come back from a shoot, take a look at your photos on the computer and feel something is just missing - you know, that extra special something. One great trick to try is to inject some abstract texture and how you do this is completely up to your imagination. One basic, yet effective, approach is to grab a sheet of paper from your printer. Scrumple it up so there’s plenty of creases, unfold the paper and take a picture of it. Then, open the image alongside your landscape shot in Photoshop and drop the paper texture Layer on top of the landscape before switching the Blending mode to Overlay.
Textures can help landscapes come to life.
. digitalrev.com2018-7-6 03:00
