A reader asked: When traveling to see mountains, water, and buildings, how should I take photos without people?

Geographic Dala has been engaged in photography for 13 years, mainly photographing landscapes, humanistic architecture, and still life sketches. This question raised by readers is actually confusing - what is a "photo without people"? Are there no people in the photo? Or are you going out for a photo shoot without an assistant and you need to appear in the photo and don’t know how to take the photo?

First of all, according to the first understanding - how to take landscape and architectural photography without people?

My personal point of view is to shoot landscapes, buildings, animals and plants, and capture humanistic feelings even if no people appear in the shot. Personally, I think that photography without humanistic value, even if it captures beautiful mountains, green waters, blue skies and white clouds, is just a sugar-coated film that lacks depth and connotation. Therefore, it is necessary to inject humanistic spirit into landscape, landscape and architectural photography.

So how to inject humanistic spirit into it?

Architecture is easy to talk about, just look for, discover and highlight its ingenuity and history.

Animals and plants are animistic, and they can embody the humanistic spirit from the perspective of spirituality and agility of life.

It is relatively difficult to express the humanistic spirit in natural landscapes. There is a famous saying that "the benevolent love mountains and the wise enjoy water." When taking photos of natural landscapes, you can focus on the "artistic conception" and use artistic conception Express your own "realm".

Seeing a mountain as a mountain is only the first level;

Seeing a mountain as not a mountain is the second level;

Seeing a mountain as a mountain is the second level. Reached the third level.

This requires that the photographer cannot simply use the lens to restore what you see when shooting. Rather, through communication, light, shadow, and color, you should highlight the landscape that you think is different from others. It can be highlights, black and white, pitch, or silhouettes, white space, or images. In short, it should highlight the artistic conception and express the mood.

Then follow the second understanding - going out to take pictures without anyone, how to take selfies by yourself.

This is very simple. You can choose to take a selfie with a selfie stick; you can also use a tripod, fix the camera in a good position, use a timer to shoot, or use a shutter cable or remote control to shoot and you can take beautiful photos. Myself!

That’s all! Please criticize based on my personal opinion.

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