In photography, as in life, things we curse as obstacles can sometimes be blessed in disguise. Carefully observation, with good times, and little luck, embrace this often challenging aspect of landscape photography can actually increase the effects and emotional depth of your images.
I remember a winter day a few years ago when an icy storm was suddenly killed because I was driving home that afternoon. At one point, the ice was falling so heavy that I could barely see where I was going, even walking with a wiper on full inclination. The way I started contemplating to contemplate and waited to pass to finish my journey to wait for the storm, it suddenly got up. As soon as the snow stopped and the sky began to clean, it fell into an incredible soft light -covered landscape with a subtle pink color. There were no other cars on the road of the small country, on which I was driving, so I pulled out for a moment and actually exiting my car to perform miracles on the trees on both sides of the road, embellished in fresh snow and illuminated with this amazing, almost other pink light.
I wish I did not have my camera with me at that time, and there are very few time in my life when I regret not having that much camera to regret it.
For a landscape photographer, the weather is very at least on a constant idea, and the worst enemy is fought at every turn – a tireless barrier to the discovery of your craft. Goes with yourself soaked, cool, and uncomfortable field, however, if you are serious about taking a picture of great outdoor. But the weather can also be your biggest partner. If you are conscious of its pattern and are ready to increase the risk of inconvenience to some extent, then he may be ready to keep yourself in the right place at the right time to take advantage of great opportunities, which can introduce the photographer.
As a resident of New England for more than 25 years, I consider myself very lucky to live in one of the most beautiful areas of the United States. Landscape photography opportunities in my region are infinite, but the other great benefits of New England are its diverse and often frugal climate. Here is a saying that goes, “If you don’t like the weather, just wait a minute.”
The chain of mountains that exclude Vermont, New Hampshire and Main, forms their own unique weather patterns, in combination with the glory of the landscape, can produce some breathtaking scenes. To take full advantage of this as a photographer, however, you also need to have something of a meteorologist. It is part of the weather forecasts, but it also helps in understanding the pattern of the weather and how they can affect ambient lighting and atmospheric conditions. For example, winter storms, which cross the area as a snow band, can turn the condition of urgent storm and clear sky duration, during which the winter lights can be luxurious – especially against the dark background of a repeated or storm.
The incredible, other form that I had described earlier was the result of a combination of low winter sun and an upper atmosphere was still heavy with moisture as a piece of snow. Since it is scattered with low-angle light clouds and snow, the small wavelength of light is more strongly absorbed by the blue end of the visible spectrum, which leads to long, red wavelength that gives the light a pink color. As someone trained as a scientist and researched with a characteristic in physics and optics, I have a tendency to be interested in technical details how these atmospheric conditions come – but if you want to take advantage of them as a landscape photographer, it is enough to be cognitive about these season patterns, without any science details. It is really important for photographers, being conscious of weather patterns that often occur with these possible promising conditions to catch a luxurious landscape.
Firmness and time are also important. Being at the right place at the right time to catch a bathing bath in incredible light, which follows the winter storm, you may need to sit out of the storm at your shooting – especially because these conditions often do not last too long, and when they are they need to be ready. Fortune is definitely in favor of a prepared photographer. A very important warning in all this is that Mother Nature always speaks herself regardless of her hopes and expectations. With any natural phenomenon, there is no guarantee when the weather comes. Tributing in your own way through a storm when you are waiting for those magic conditions on a hill, it does not guarantee that they will be for you!
The discovery of extraordinary visual magic that can bring in your landscape photography, both have a waiting game and a number of games – and a one that requires a level of perseverance and firmness for success.
Extraordinary atmospheric conditions can also arise in places where the land meets the body of water such as the ocean or lake. In New England, it is said that the border of the Atlantic Ocean, the sea climate can get some great opportunities to create some (literal) atmospheric landscape images. On the sea shore in the main, where we prefer to leave as a family as a family, we often experience a terrible sea fog that rolls into the sea in late afternoon. This phenomenon, which is known as the consultant fog to meteorologists, when the hot, moist air moves on the cold water of the main bay. This strange fog can roll as a thin layer of only a few feet thick haze in the ocean that embraces the ground and creates an effect that resembles the platform made for music and dramatic presentations using dry ice or commercial fog machines.
You can see an example of this in the photograph below, in which a simple view of the beach filled with people, playing the game, and their summer holidays have been converted into some more esoteric and interesting – a strange sea of ​​figures going into a pool of white vapor.
This confluence of hot, moist air with cold water is also a driver of a lot of ocean mist and fog which is very common in coastal areas. This type of mist sometimes stains the border between the sea and the sky with the effect of eradicating the horizon. This is a phenomenon that likes to take advantage of when takes a picture of the landscape next to the ocean. Funny, pink -like for light that follows a winter storm, this phenomenon can provide a very contemplative and emotional aspect to your landscape photographs, with the power to change the strength, there will be some more compelling in a normal scene otherwise.
The occurrence of these ocean mists is difficult to predict more tangible and large -scale weather events, such as snow storms, require more persistence (and fate) to capture your landscape photos. Armed with some knowledge, how they arise, however, the best way to customize the possibilities of capturing them is to find places for your landscape photography, where these events are known to happen, and the goal of staying in place for your shoot during those circumstances is the most likely to give birth to you – Coastal Maine is a great example of this.
Another technique for the characteristic of the weather as a primary visual element in your landscape photography is to prefer the sky in your compositions. There are times when the sky provides an incredible tableau of texture and tone that can make it the primary subject of your photo. As we mentioned earlier, the conditions that give birth to it can often be the result of weather patterns that are rolling in your area or have just gone through it. In the two images given below, both these scenarios were caught on the heels of a storm – one in winter, and the other in summer. In each case, the most prominent structural elements in the sky view are far and away, which mainly have small slivers of the landscape at the bottom of the frame that serve with some visual context.
As much as the weather can be the enemy of the landscape photographer, the understanding of the weather patterns can be enough to be able to avail different light and atmospheric conditions that they bring that they bring that any landscape can be an invaluable accessory for photographer’s skill tools. For example, the previous generations of artists such as the 19th -century impressive painters, understood the dramatic effects of the ambient light in the scenario. If you have ever gone to the south of France and have seen for yourself incredible, wide light that climate can be produced in that area, it is easy to understand that many of them come there to catch their prestigious landscape on canvas. To some extent, the weather always has an element in any landscape photograph, but an understanding of its shifting pattern, a recognition of this effect that can occur on your images, and your desire to work with it can be really transformative in your landscape work to include your photography more consciously.
