Landscape Pictures and its Styles

By the words, it suggests that- in Landscape Pictures, scenic views of nature dominates the image. Even if any living article is included in the image, it shouldn’t any playing role in the picture. The main purpose of Landscape Pictures is to make us remind of the places we visited and to recollect all the details of the location. This gives a completely new perspective in viewing the nature rather through eyes. Thus, the photographer has to take a keen interest in reliving the scenery in the picture. We’ll see how to make better Landscape pictures.

Selecting Equipment: 

While many consider wide lenses for Landscape Photography, you can also use telephoto lenses for the same. Using a tripod can help in stabilizing the image. When you use Polarisers, they deepen the color of the sky and making the picture unnatural. Neutral density filters can prevent this over-exposure of the sky and makes the picture more natural.  

Appropriate Time: 

Nature won’t behave the same at all hours of the day. There are some golden hours when it unleashes itself. The perfect times will be in pre-dawn of the sky and while the sun sets down from the sky. These two time periods of around one hour will make our landscape picture more realistic.

Right Camera Settings: 

To get the control of depth in shots, the aperture is either kept at priority AE or full manual exposure. To get the sharpness of the image, the aperture is kept between f/8 and f/11. ISO settings should be kept around 800. After all, it is the sharpness that guides the depth in a landscape image.

Weather and the Sky: 

Weather plays a major by changing the mood from warm and relaxed feeling in Sunny Pictures to interest in Cloudy Pictures. While experiencing bad weather, you can capture the moments of twisting trees, dramatic clouds. Colour of the sky creates depth in Landscape pictures.

Making use of Panorama: 

Some scenes in nature are too difficult to capture even with a wide lens camera. Shooting a series of Pictures and stitching them together can make the photo that delivers all the details. Overlapping of shots should be around 30% - 50% to make a perfect Panorama. The only thing to take is to adopt same camera settings in all the pictures taken.

Styles of Landscape Pictures

There are three styles depending on the characteristics of the picture.

Representational Landscapes: 

This type of Pictures show the nature as it is. Since these pictures don’t involve any visual manipulation, the pictures should be taken in lighting and daytime. These are mere capturing of nature with the complete detailing of the surroundings.

Impressionistic Landscapes: 

In these pictures, the photographer uses techniques to create an impression of the scene which need not be realistic. By changing the speed of shutter to very low, the movement of water droplets can be captured that cannot be perceived by naked eyes.

Abstract Landscapes: 

Abstract relates to considering all the elements in a graphical way. They leave an imaginary, unrecognizable impression with the viewer after capturing it. This needs a lot of compositional values and artistic skills by the photographer.