文档介绍：Digital Nature Photography and Adobe Photoshop
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Chapter 4 Shooting Landscapes
3. Place your digital camera on your tripod. Even though you might have plenty of light and you can
shoot at a fast shutter speed, don’t be tempted to hand-hold your digital camera while taking the
photo. As a reminder, always use a sturdy tripod for your nature and landscape photos. Your port-
folio will include sharper photos if you do!
4. Compose the scene. The next step is to pose the scene in your viewfinder (if you’re
shooting with a digital SLR) or your LCD. Keep in mind that when you’re shooting photos outdoors,
it can be difficult to view the scene on a digital camera’s LCD. Most digital cameras e
equipped with viewfinders; don’t forget that option to frame your scene. As I’ve mentioned, consider
taking the photo in both landscape and portrait orientations.
Take different versions of the shot by zooming in on the subject, and then zooming out. It’s also a
good habit to frame the scene, but leave yourself a little room—you never know whether you’ll
want to crop the image in Photoshop later. You don’t have to zoom out of every shot—just a little
bit is a good habit. If your digital camera packs a lot of megapixels, don’t worry; you’ll have plenty
of resolution to allow for some cropping later.
5. Choose the shooting mode. Most digital cameras offer a number of different shooting modes for you
to use. Nature photographers typically use aperture priority mode, allowing you to choose the aper-
ture setting for the photo while the digital camera chooses the shutter speed for that aperture set-
ting based on its internal light meter setting.
The aperture setting dictates the amount of light and depth of field that passes through the lens. The
aperture is actually a diaphragm that opens and closes according to the setting you’ve indicated.
Small aperture settings are actually set to the higher numbers, such as f/16, f/18, or f/22. Small aper-
t