Tip shooting landscape in the golden hours to become lighter

As many know, one good tip for shooting a landscape is to choose the right time is at sunrise or before sunset. But surely the constraints is that we will lack the lighting for our landscape photography.

A simple way to overcome lighting limitations when golden hour is by utilizing the reflection of skylight with the help of water. This will add the bright to our landscape which will avoid the image that is not shaped or underexposed of it foreground.

Putting water in landscape photos will lighter the area. It would be more interesting if we get a unique cloud formations and other colors.

It also takes some experimenting to get the perfect position of skylight reflection in water, so we can get the balance of lighting. But however it turns out it will still be lighter than without putting water into the area.

photo by Bram & Vera

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Midday Shooting to Get Textures on a Photo

The light settings and angles to shoot in order to create a texture in a photograph is a very important thing. we can use natural light sources or from light to highlight a texture of the subject which we will shoot with a certain angle.

Special time such as at dawn or dusk is usually able to help us to get perfect lighting because a lower angle of light that will makes shooting the subject become easier even in subject face. But we do not ignore shooting at midday as they were also able to produce something else, especially relating to highlight the texture on vertical surfaces.

As an example we will be photographing an old building at midday heat. The roughness of the walls of the building could highlight a small shadow of light along the wall that will add real texture and a point of interest for many image, this possibility can not be obtained in the photographing at dawn or dusk.


photo by rarcarman

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