How to photograph landscapes
How to photograph landscapes? In this first post I have exposed some techniques and some tricks that in my opinion will save your ability to photograph landscapes in a way that, as mentioned, whether they are natural, urban or industrial landscapes.
With this post that you are reading now I want to continue in some way the speech that has just begun by bringing you further updates that in my experience in the field have always proved to be very useful for the creation of “memorable” landscapes.
POLARIZING FILTERS
Polarizing filters have proved to be excellent “aids” in landscape photography thanks to their ability to reduce unpleasant effects such as glare from light and at the same time improve the overall chromatic effect of the shot. This is why they are very useful, for example, when taking photos of natural landscapes in which some colors, for example the blue of the sky or water, could otherwise be saturated by sunlight, losing their original chromaticity.
Little trick: if you are taking the photo with a smartphone and therefore have no way to mount a polarizing filter as you would on your reflex, don’t worry, you can still get the effect simply by placing the lens of a pair of polarized sunglasses in front of the camera. ‘target. Seeing is believing.
LOW ISO
The basic idea is this. You are about to take your landscape photo. Good. Now choose the aperture and shutter speed; do it freely by referring to those values that seem to be the optimal ones to you at that moment. Once you have defined aperture and speed of shuttering, and here comes my advice, do some tests until you find the lowest ISO possible that however safeguards the photographic result you have in mind. The better you are at keeping the ISO low, the easier it will be for you to prevent the photographed landscape from being grainy.
FOCAL OPENING
If the goal is to have an image that is as sharp as possible, the aperture that I suggest is around f / 8 levels. Moving away from this level you will easily risk making photos gradually less and less sharp.
That’s all? Not necessarily. In fact, there may be variations to this golden rule.
For example, if you are photographing a landscape in which, however, there is something in the foreground, for example a tree, then if your intention is to give it greater focus you should operate with apertures between f / 11 and f / 16.
Dually if you want to intentionally blur what is in the foreground you will have to rely on very low apertures such as f / 2.8.
