Travel Photography: Mountains

You probably just read about panoramic photography for especially large natural works of art. However, mountains and mountain ranges are only rarely shown in panoramic photographs.

The best mountain scenes are not based on size of the photograph, but on the scale and the lighting of the scene itself. In fact, scale is more important with mountains (peaks and ranges) than with any other subject matter!

With mountain scenery, you really must have something else in the photograph to show just how massive those rocks are. People in the middle ground, flowers in the foreground, a chalet in the middle ground. Things like that.

Trees are always great for including in your mountain photography. They are especially useful and interesting for framing the scene, too.

Secondly, lighting in your mountain photographs also make them the most attractive. Unfortunately, man-made lighting features probably won't do much for your mountain photographs, so you have to deal with all natural lighting.

Sunrise and sunsets are amazingly colourful on their own. But put them with mountain scenery, and the mountains take on a whole new life. On the other hand, you can always use other natural lighting phenomena such as the aurora borealis (Northern Lights) or "alpenglow," which is when blue light is scattered by atmospheric conditions and red light enhances the scene and the clouds around the peaks.

Also, immediately before and after storms can be very interesting times for you to photograph the giant mountain majesty. But that requires some very good timing on your part.

So, there you have it. Getting the best out of mountain peaks and valleys, cliffs and ranges. Now let's get you booked into that wonderful little mountain cabin. Climb on over to www.kingarthur.myttn.com today!