Nature photography

Nature photography has always been attractive and favorite for amateur and professional photographers and of course the general public. Nature has a great potential for photography due to its variety of locations and changes in different seasons. Nature photography is a branch of photography art in which different subjects in nature are recorded in a real way. In nature photography, unlike landscape photography, everything should be shown as it is. There are the same subjects in nature and landscape photography. But these two branches have many differences. There are limitations for taking photos of the nature branch. One of these limitations is the absence of human presence in nature photos, which does not exist in the landscape branch. In nature photos, there are no subjects or elements related to humans. Domesticated or trained animals, cultivated plants, huts, bridges, roads, signs, electric cables and many other elements are human-related elements that should not be seen in nature photos. But there is no such limitation in landscape photography and even some of these photos are related to city landscape photography. Another difference is in the type of editing of nature and landscape photos. In nature photography, everything must be seen in reality. It is not allowed to remove or add elements of the nature photo, change the colors and move out of the real color space. But in modern landscape photos, it is allowed to remove additional elements and create a color space outside of what is recorded in the photo. In editing landscape photos, the goal is to increase the visual beauty of the photos, but in nature photos, the goal is to prepare a natural, documentary and real output. To take pictures of nature, you need the right equipment. In nature photography, you will need a camera with high resistance to different weather conditions. A camera that can withstand cold and hot weather as well as high humidity. Zoom lenses such as 70-200 mm with 2.8 aperture, ND and polarized filters and tripods are other equipment that you must have with you. You can take pictures in nature almost any hour of the day. But for professional photography, it is better to take photos during golden hours. Professional photographers adhere to this rule when photographing nature. The first golden hour in nature photography is shortly before sunrise and up to an hour after it. The second golden time is one hour before sunset and lasts until shortly after. To achieve the highest quality in photos, be sure to use the camera’s raw file format. The RAW format gives you the widest range of colors and details to produce a perfect output.

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