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Landscape

Sky scenes
It is rare for the sky to be absent from a picture representing a landscape: it often takes up half the area of ​​the picture and sometimes more than half. The truth is that the sky is an element that changes constantly and forever. While the rest of the elements - trees, pastures and buildings - remain constant, the moving sky transforms the general atmosphere, changes colors and changes the focus of the picture in its favor.

If you look at the pictures in this book, you will notice the important place that the sky occupies in a large group of them: we can say that it plays an important role in the composition as we use it to strengthen the effect of the first level and the intermediate levels. A picture of little importance can be of great importance in the presence of a stormy sky.

The sky can also suggest accuracy: a yellow and foggy sky characterizes the pestilential and stinky atmosphere in large cities and industrial areas and its presence alone suggests a scene with a factory.

In some parts of the globe the weather conditions are extremely variable and change suddenly without warning. You have to anticipate the development of cloud formation and the changing qualities of light and shadow. The sky dominates in the plains more than in the mountains, at least in terms of the space it occupies in the frame. The part of the sky included in the image depends on the final balance of the image: as a general rule, always try to keep a part of the sky in a terrestrial landscape and vice versa, a part of the landscape with the horizon in a scene dedicated above all to sky effects: thus the sky and the land are represented in their natural relationship. Finally, if you want to increase the feeling of emptiness, use a wide-angle lens.

Sky effects with filters.
Filters give additional strength and contrast to the sky or create a certain ambiance to colored scenes. Color filters used in black and white correct or strengthen the color tones to give a better result, especially the blue color. The best filters for the correct result of the blue sky are yellow and red filters. The smaller filter - green has the additional advantage of darkening the blue and lightening the green, which increases the contrast in the scene. There is a line that always occurs in black and white photos, which is the white sky with dark green.

With a red filter:
The blue of the sky has darkened and the image has become

More contrast.

With a yellow filter:
The clouds have become white and the blue of the sky is intense: this
is what gives the contrast dimension.

Without a filter:
Using a regular film, the sky area was very light and without contrast.

To prevent the veil in reverse light:
We can prevent the formation of the veil by hiding the solar disk behind a layer of clouds, especially in summer when the sun is high above the horizon.

The filters overwhelm the veil and give great contrast.
Hasselblad telephoto lens red filter 1/250 sec

Aperture 16 Kodak Tri X

Main subject: sky

Balance is achieved by including the solar region in the composition and by focusing on the clouds: the scene is shaded against the sky.
Leicaflex wide angle lens green filter.
1/250 sec aperture 8 Kodak Tri X