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Tips and tricks for picking up abroad

We don't need expensive equipment to create expressive daylight photos. It suffices to think a little, with a little novelty, in addition to a percentage of the element of choice, to transform ordinary topics into others that can impose themselves.

If the subjects outside are landscapes, people, or buildings, we will find it easy to capture them with modern cameras and films if we are the kind who are content with postcard-like pictures and accurate recordings, but it is better not to be. Making good pictures, not just taking pictures, is not difficult if we give some thought and are guided by some simple foundations.

What is the meaning of a good picture, accurately?
The meaning can be summed up in the best way by saying that a good picture is a personal expression, or in other words, an expression that uses only the materials facing the camera as a basis for producing a picture that displays the atmosphere, moods, and emotions. So that becomes it. An experience » experienced by the beholder.
This can be achieved on stage or in a darkroom - or a combination of the two. Dealing with black and white is much easier, especially in a dark room, and is often more effective because it takes one step further from realism.
The sudden popularity of Cokin filters, Hoya, and all other multicolored lenticulars is due to the subconscious feeling on the part of color workers that their images are more realistic.
It should, and these connections become boring with time because a huge number of people started working on them without discrimination. They are like filters. When they are used to add something to an already good picture, they are justified. However, it is often used merely as an attempt to give a deceptively artistic appearance to a poorly formed subject.
As for the direct emergency footage, it has very little impact because the viewers are already stubborn about the subject, or they are accustomed to the type of this subject as it is shown. The only exceptions are possible when the viewer is not familiar with the original subject, which explains why Baalik Castle, for example, is less fun and exciting for a person from the Bekaa region compared to a person from outside the region, and that the pyramids excite Arabs and foreigners, but they have less influence on the people of Egypt. .

However, the creative photographer still searches for viewing points, lighting, angles, and presentation that are unfamiliar to both the citizen and the stranger, studying everything from the point of view of
A different view is the way that gives the photographer - an eye that watches - and the result is that he thus gets much more from life and travel even in his own environment.
It is one of the advantages of serious landscape photography as a hobby, in that a good photographer will always try to visualize the final image before making an exposure and will decide at that point how he intends the print and what process to adopt.

Some simple instructions:

We offer here some simple observations that should be memorized by heart, and acting on them should help produce a different image.
1 - Try as much as possible to take your pictures in the early morning or late afternoon, so if you work in colors, you will get a pleasant heat, and with both colors and black and white, you will get long shadows that help create an impressive atmosphere - add to this the light contrast It is usually less severe than it would be when the sun was higher in the sky. This will solve the problem of light contrast, usually with color films.

2- Avoid picking at eye level. This only gives a familiar viewpoint, so if I lie down or pick up from above, or climb a ladder and pick down. Your photo will contain something more exciting.

3- Avoid capturing with the sun behind you, because when the light source is on one side, it will give a much better formation of the image or a separation of the flats with longer shadows, and all this will help you to give an impression of space and depth, and it will even help you in some circumstances to have the sun facing the camera in a way that makes the flats defined with light.

4- Try to avoid working with a standard lens from normal distances. and use a wide-angle lens for landscapes, if at all possible; And if you can't, go ahead to a closer location with your standard lens. The advantage of the wide-angle lens when working outside - and working on special landscapes - is that we can get a target in the foreground within focus just as you get this distant scene, and the large target in the foreground helps to give depth and space, there is no doubt that the image without it may appear far from The effect is all-dimensional and two-dimensional in its appearance.
It should be noted here that the open landscape, which is easily covered by the eye, loses all its pleasure without a point, a front focus to give a scale, and usually it is not necessary to work with a telephoto lens for external scenes unless you want and collect flats in order to create some effect: it used to make A road crowded with cars appears even more crowded, so that the cars seem to be sticking together, and the fact is that the most recent of them are a few feet away from the other.

5- Although these instructions may seem arbitrary to you that you can adhere to on all occasions, they remain reasonable to some extent, and you certainly will not, because in order to create an effect in a certain image, this image should move away from what is familiar and normal as possible. Realistic presentation can only be a recording. Although it may show technical skill, it is only a copy of the artistic work of nature, and not an artistic or personal interpretation at all. This means that the more we can get away from realism, the better the result will be.

With Monochrome, we move away from realism one step, by removing color, but with colored work, we return to this realism to adjust the color values, and we spread them in our own way.
This, however, shows some transparencies unless we deliberately make some good colored moves because the subject is limited
The same is characterized by attractive coloring, and when you see a topic in which colors were deliberately used to obtain special effects, we realize that colors can be used creatively. The biased opinion of the principle of color for the sake of color alone is still applied to many transparencies that participate in competitions, and they do not satisfy only a few. non-owner
We did not mention the important aspects of the content, along with the elements related to consistency and light contrast, and all of these play their role in improving the impression that the image gives ⏹

⏺ The six commandments

1- Pick up early or late in the day.
2- Do not pick up from eye level.
3- Do not shoot with the sun behind you.
4- Find a target in the foreground to give a measure to your cat.
5- Use a wide angle lens or a telephoto lens if you have one.
6- “Circle” the image with a natural target or with a color gradient when that is possible◾