Genre: Travel and Landscape
Skill Level: Advanced
I have had a love-hate relationship with the sky during my peewee photography years. Sometimes it helps me get better photos, and the other times it gives me junk. Nowadays, I find it essential to always consider the sky when I'm photographing outdoors. Most of my travel photography work involves a lot of sky. Probably around 50% or more have some sky in it. Its a personal choice. I feel it adds either to the drama of scene, or gives a lot of texture to the photo as a background. I love texture.
If you're planning to do travel photography, then learn to deal with the sky. It is one of those things that can make or break your photography.
I have had the pleasure and honor to learn from a good friend of mine, and if I may say the best Filipino Landscape Photographer of his time, Richard Larrios. Here's a little trivia: Most of the time, when he joins a photo contest and its a landscape theme, he'ld get both the first and third prize, but never second. Have you ever won second, Chard? He has been a great influence in my photography. :D
Anyway, one of things I've learned from Richard is to watch the sky. I never really understood much of what he said back then (Hehe, sorry dude) but I did get it later on. The relationship between land in sky in photography is very important specially on the subject of light. So for those who want to do travel photogaphy, watch the skies.
Here's a skyscape photo taken from our backyard. I did this because skies have always been great backgrounds but often not deliberately used as subjects.
Shot at f/5, 1/250th of a second, 35mm, ISO 400. Since I shoot RAW, I adjusted the white balance during post processing to fluorescent to make it really blue. You can do that with Tungsten too but I felt the blue was too much with that setting. I didn't adjust anything else.
I have a travel photography workshop tomorrow night and I might be out the whole day also so I hope I could still share a photo despite my schedule.
Have fun everyone.
Karlo de Leon
Photographer Extrordinaire
Skill Level: Advanced
I have had a love-hate relationship with the sky during my peewee photography years. Sometimes it helps me get better photos, and the other times it gives me junk. Nowadays, I find it essential to always consider the sky when I'm photographing outdoors. Most of my travel photography work involves a lot of sky. Probably around 50% or more have some sky in it. Its a personal choice. I feel it adds either to the drama of scene, or gives a lot of texture to the photo as a background. I love texture.
If you're planning to do travel photography, then learn to deal with the sky. It is one of those things that can make or break your photography.
I have had the pleasure and honor to learn from a good friend of mine, and if I may say the best Filipino Landscape Photographer of his time, Richard Larrios. Here's a little trivia: Most of the time, when he joins a photo contest and its a landscape theme, he'ld get both the first and third prize, but never second. Have you ever won second, Chard? He has been a great influence in my photography. :D
Anyway, one of things I've learned from Richard is to watch the sky. I never really understood much of what he said back then (Hehe, sorry dude) but I did get it later on. The relationship between land in sky in photography is very important specially on the subject of light. So for those who want to do travel photogaphy, watch the skies.
Here's a skyscape photo taken from our backyard. I did this because skies have always been great backgrounds but often not deliberately used as subjects.
Streaks of White and Blue
Shot at f/5, 1/250th of a second, 35mm, ISO 400. Since I shoot RAW, I adjusted the white balance during post processing to fluorescent to make it really blue. You can do that with Tungsten too but I felt the blue was too much with that setting. I didn't adjust anything else.
I have a travel photography workshop tomorrow night and I might be out the whole day also so I hope I could still share a photo despite my schedule.
Have fun everyone.
Karlo de Leon
Photographer Extrordinaire
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2 comments:
Heyyy I am very new into photography and lately with my shots, I have realized that the skies look sad on my photos as its blueness never shows especially when I travel on places that changes weather all the time. Now my sentiments are being sympathised reading this blog. i Will do something about it - filters that's one thing and ready my camera when the sky gets it happy in its real blue color.
Cheers !
Hi Dara :D Thank You for visiting my blog. I could probabaly give you guys tips on how to make the skies blue and things to look out for depending on the weather. Just wait for that. Probably when I get back from Baguio :D
You have a great day, because I am :D
Karlo
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