Mountain-Light
How to Take Creative Photographs
Play with Colour
Colour contrast can be dramatic provided the colours are harmonious. A great exercise that will improve your vision of colour is the one suggested below - you will enjoy doing it and it will improve creativity.
Do you regularly take your camera when you go out?
Do you Approach 'colour' as a theme?
For example, choose a single colour for a day, then look for in the city where you live. You'll soon discover that you'll photograph your surroundings in a completely different way. This way, you connect all sorts of subjects together thanks to the colour, in all its shades and nuances. Save the photographs at home in colour categories. This will give you exciting collections, which you can later enjoy comparing to each other.
A beautiful photograph starts with you having fun!
"The most beautiful photographs are a perfect mix of a creative eye and an optimum use of the technical possibilities. Landscape photography isn't the easiest of specialisations in that respect. So don't be too disappointed if a photograph is less favourable than you'd hoped. Let it stimulate you to experiment further and investigate what can do to discover the photographer in yourself."
Use a Polarisation Filter
"With a polarisation filter you can achieve different effects. Blue skies become more intense, you will get more contrast and can avoid undesired reflections or dazzle. The best use of a polarisation filter is in combination with a single-lens reflective camera. This is because you need to turn the filter to a particular position, after which you can evaluate the results in your viewfinder or on your LSD display. You need to be able to look through the lens for this."
Blue Skies
"There is a lot of polarised light in a blue sky. With the filter, you hold this back as it were, so that the blue becomes darker and more penetrating. Another advantage is that the clouds look 'whiter' due to the fact that they stand out better against the deep blue heavens. So the polarisation filter ensures more contrast, but it can't change the colours. It doesn't make a grey sky blue, it just amplifies the blue that is already there.
Sometimes certain objects are difficult to photograph because they are damp, or made of shiny material that reflects the light. A wet road surface for example, the silvery underside of birch leaves. You can suppress these reflections with a polarisation filter. Similar to Polaroid glasses."
Canon (UK) Ltd
photographs are ours
Play with Colour
Colour contrast can be dramatic provided the colours are harmonious. A great exercise that will improve your vision of colour is the one suggested below - you will enjoy doing it and it will improve creativity.
Do you regularly take your camera when you go out?
Do you Approach 'colour' as a theme?
For example, choose a single colour for a day, then look for in the city where you live. You'll soon discover that you'll photograph your surroundings in a completely different way. This way, you connect all sorts of subjects together thanks to the colour, in all its shades and nuances. Save the photographs at home in colour categories. This will give you exciting collections, which you can later enjoy comparing to each other.
A beautiful photograph starts with you having fun!
"The most beautiful photographs are a perfect mix of a creative eye and an optimum use of the technical possibilities. Landscape photography isn't the easiest of specialisations in that respect. So don't be too disappointed if a photograph is less favourable than you'd hoped. Let it stimulate you to experiment further and investigate what can do to discover the photographer in yourself."
Use a Polarisation Filter
"With a polarisation filter you can achieve different effects. Blue skies become more intense, you will get more contrast and can avoid undesired reflections or dazzle. The best use of a polarisation filter is in combination with a single-lens reflective camera. This is because you need to turn the filter to a particular position, after which you can evaluate the results in your viewfinder or on your LSD display. You need to be able to look through the lens for this."
Blue Skies
"There is a lot of polarised light in a blue sky. With the filter, you hold this back as it were, so that the blue becomes darker and more penetrating. Another advantage is that the clouds look 'whiter' due to the fact that they stand out better against the deep blue heavens. So the polarisation filter ensures more contrast, but it can't change the colours. It doesn't make a grey sky blue, it just amplifies the blue that is already there.
Sometimes certain objects are difficult to photograph because they are damp, or made of shiny material that reflects the light. A wet road surface for example, the silvery underside of birch leaves. You can suppress these reflections with a polarisation filter. Similar to Polaroid glasses."
Canon (UK) Ltd
photographs are ours
Landscape and Wildlife Photography
