Pictures of landscapes.

But enough about people, there are other beautiful things out there. Except pictures of people, called portraits at higher requirements, amateurs usually choose landscape photos. What differences from black and white photography should you pay attention to here?? In fact, there are very few of them. Every camera owner has probably already taken pictures of landscapes on black and white materials, even if he is not a special nature expert and only then takes out the camera, to take commemorative photos of your loved ones. We should not ignore the ordinary, even trivial views. If the resulting image is technically good, we can congratulate ourselves on our artistic abilities. Very often, however, everything changes for us and that, what we get back from the lab is completely different from what we originally intended. The subjects have turned gray or the sky is deathly pale, and the forest forms a black spot. A slightly advanced amateur will skip themes, which look beautiful in nature, however, they do not have defined contrasts and lines, emphasizing the picturesqueness of the image.

An amateur has a much easier task, who puts a color film on his camera. If it displays correctly, he can do almost any picture, which, despite some smokiness and color deviations or inadequate lighting, he will be able to watch with pleasure.

The so-called serious amateur and nature lover would like to receive perfect images, which he could later show around his friends circle without apologizing for every fourth picture with numerous defects. Color photos can be approached with different attitudes. There are people like that, who only look for beauty in pictures, others pay attention only to the historical one, cultural, geological or biological significance. However, the technical conditions of color photography are the same.

Reversible materials, compared to negative materials, have two particularly negative properties that are of particular importance in landscape photography. In the air, we should constantly reckon with changing lighting conditions. It's not just the brightness that changes, but also the colored composition of the light. Negative materials are virtually insensitive in this regard, because in the copying process we can even out differences within relatively large limits, and due to the gradation being softer than in reversible materials, the range of useful exposures is two- or three times larger. An experienced photographer can take color photos on negatives without a light meter, however, when reversible materials are used, a photoelectric light meter is absolutely necessary. Nevertheless, for more important photos, it is advisable to take two photos- or three times, with an aperture difference of half or three-quarters. We need to get acquainted with the issues of the varied spectral composition of light and the related difficult issues of filters. Reversible materials are mainly adapted to sunlight, which is mostly used as lighting by amateurs. They reproduce neutral gray colors correctly, because they are the most sensitive to them. Looking more closely, we can say, that by taking pictures of objects in full sunlight, lying in the shade - so that they will receive light from the blue sky - we will get them in the image with a slightly blue tint, while with the eye we see them as completely neutral gray. Naturalists know, that from the primal rays of the sun, that still exist in the upper layers of our atmosphere, on their way to us, the short rays are absorbed by the air, containing dust and water. Ultimately, the sun's rays depend on the position of the sun, so the length of the path, they travel through the air, they are more yellow or red. With a cloudy sky, the light is mixed. It is more bluish than direct sunlight, and likewise shadows against a blue sky will also be very blue.

With some dexterity, we can get two types of shadow colors with a low position of the sun and a blue sky. If we hold a stick over a sheet of paper, then the sun will naturally cast a shadow on us, which will have a blue tint, for only scattered rays from the sky will fall on this place. However, the blue sky will also cast a fuzzy shadow, which will be yellowish compared to the rest of the surface.