Give Me a Minute and I will Give You the Secret of Summer Landscape Photography
Nature photography is great fun. Your landscapes always change as the nature changes its look with SEASONAL VARIATIONS. Besides, lighting is different at different times of the year as solar elevation varies from season to season. Let us speak about summer landscape photography more detailed in the current post. You can also find about spring photography in the article What Photographer Ought to Know About Seasonal Variations.
Summer Lighting
- Summer weather conditions greatly vary from country to country. Still there is one thing, which is common for all countries around the world. Days in summer grow long and the weather gets warmer. However, it is the less suitable season for shooting landscapes. The major reason for this is that summer lighting can be too harsh.
- Often the sky is cloudless when the sun rises and sets, and that is why the light from the sun is too intensive. If there were clouds, they could serve as a diffuser, moreover at sunset clouds acquire different colors.
- Besides, in summer the sun very quickly rises too high, that is why only a few hours after sunrise, lighting can be too intensive, while a heat haze makes the sky look white rather than blue. As a result you have much less time for shooting.
For a summer photo session, you are to get up and arrive at the place of shooting early in the morning. And if you want to take advantage of the most effective evening lighting you should be ready to stay there late. In the middle of summer the sun rises at about 4 a.m. and sets at about 10 – 11 p.m. (although it depends on the part of the world you live in).
Summer morning landscapes often look washed-out, their colors are not bright. When the sun rises towards its zenith, lighting becomes harsh, shadows are too short and thick. You should try avoiding shooting big-size landscapes and detailed images of nature in such conditions.
Polarizing filter is very effective and useful on a cloudless summer day, even when the sun is at the zenith. That is why my advice is CONSTANTLY USE A POLARIZING FILTER.
Though, at this time you can successfully take photos of architecture, patterns, graphic details and other objects, which benefit from harsh light.
Read more about landscape photography:
- What Photographer Ought to Know About Seasonal Variations
- Ten Landscape Photography Tips
- Art Composition: landscape photography
- Winter photography: tips for beginners
- Winter Photography tips: Part II
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