Canvas prints can make sensational pieces of wall decoration when the composition includes mist. Seasonal mist and fog can quickly transform a familiar landscape. One of the great myths about landscape photography is that you can take all the time in the world because the landscape is stationary and isn’t going anywhere. If only this was true! Landscapes are only as dramatic as the accompanying weather and the subsequent light this brings, and both can change in an instant.
Here are some great locations for mist and fog:
The Lake District, Cumbria
This tourist hot spot is a mecca for mist hunters. Fog lingers longer on west facing slopes and in sheltered bays on the larger, cooler lakes. Try the Derwentwater jetties, Blea Tarn, Bassenthwaite and Buttermere. Click here to view our Lake District Gallery.
The Lake District
The Broads, Norfolk
Pick a photogenic windpump and frame it with reeds… there’s plenty of potential for ethereal mist pictures here. Head for Turf Fen, Horsey Mere or Thorney Dyke - You’re certain get some shots to make stunning canvas prints.
Snowdonia, North Wales
This mountainous National Park contains several bodies of water perfect misty morning views when spied from above. Llyn Parc, Llyn Dinas and Llyn Crafnant.
The Buachaille, Scotland
Head towards brooding, desolate Rannoch Moor and Glen Coe on the A82. On cool damp mornings, mist hangs about the shoulders of a mighty pyramidical peak, Bauchaille Etive Mor, like a dramatic curtain.
The Somerset Levels
This coastal wetland is famous for its mists, sprawling between the Mendip and Quantock hills. Galstonbury Tor and Burrow Mump make excellent subjects.
Whitby Abbey, North Yorks
Facing out across the North Sea, this mystical abbey and quaint seaside town get their fair share of sea fog through out the year. Small wonder Bram Stoker got his inspiration for Dracula here. You can also see how numerous photographers have been inspired to come here, which normally results in beautiful canvas prints.
We like to help you achieve good photos here at Canvas Prints Online. This is a post in our series of photography tips: Focusing and Depth of Field
Depth of field is the space in front of and behind the plane of best focus, within which objects appear acceptably sharp. Though accurate, this definition tells or example, use it to imply space, to suggest being inside the action, or to emphasize the separation between elements within the picture area.
Varying depth of field
Your chief control over depth of field is the lens aperture: as you set smaller apertures (using f/11 instead of f/8, for example), depth of field increases. This increase is greater the shorter the lens’s focal length, so that the depth of field at f/11 on a 28mm lens is greater than it would be f/11 on a 300mm lens. Depth of field also increases as the subject being focused on moves further away from the camera. The corollary of this that at close focusing distances, depth of filed is very limited.
Using depth of field
An extensive depth of field (resulting from using a small lens aperture, a wide-angle lens, distant focusing, or a combination of these factors) is often used for the following types of subject:
- Landscapes, such as wide angle- general views.
- Architecture, in which the foregrounds to buildings are important features.
- Interiors, including nearby furniture or other objects, and far windows and similar features. As a by-product, smaller apertures tend to reduce lens flare and improve lens performance. A shallow depth of field (resulting from a wide lens aperture, a long focal length lens, focusing close-up, or a combination of these) renders only a small portion of the image sharp, and can often be usefully applied to:
- Portraiture, to help concentrate viewer attention.
- Reducing the distraction from elements that cannot be removed from the lens’s field of view
- Isolating a subject from the distracting visual clutter of tits surroundings
Autofocusing
Two main methods of autofocusong are used. In compact cameras, a beam of inferred light scans the scene when the shutter button is pressed. The nearest and strongest IR reflections are read by a sensor, which calculates the subject distance and sets it on the camera a fraction of a second before the picture has been taken.
The other main method is ‘passive’. Part of the light from the subject is sampled and split up, but only when the lens is in focus do the parts of the image coincide (or are said to be ‘in phase’). The crucial property of this system is what the phase differences vary, depending on whether the lens Is focused in front of behind the [lane of best focus. Autofocus sensors analyse the pattern and can tell the lens in which direction to move in order to achieve best focus.
Though sophisticated, autofocus systems can be fooled. Beware of the following circumstances:
- The key autofocus sensor is in the centre of the viewfinder image, so any off centre subjects may not be correctly focused. Aim the focusing area at your subject, ‘hold’ the focus with a light pressure on the shutter release button, and then return the viewfinder to the original view.
- When photographing through glass, reflections for the glass may confuse the IR sensor.
- Photographing beyond objects that are close to the lens, through a bush or between the gaps in a fence for instance, can confuse the autofocus system.
- Moving close-up subjects may be best kept in focus by setting a distance manually and then adjusting your position backward and forward in order to maintain focus,
- With very fast moving subjects it may better to focus on a set distance and then wait for the subject to reach that point before shooting.
Hopefully this provides you with some good advice to get the best out of your images on canvas.
Keep checking back to this blog for further tips on photography and image preparation.
Canvas Prints Online are now offering a unique range of creative, hand painted artwork. We have been working a long side one of Manchester’s most talented artist’s to provide you with an exciting and affordable selection of iconic artwork.
Every piece in this range is hand painted and available to purchase as beautiful giclee canvas prints. Our first addition to the gallery is a painting of the beloved Bob Marley. Produced using oils an canvas, this painting has already received lots of attention and we have orders requesting original reproductions, where the artist paints the piece on order! If you are interested in bespoke orders then please contact our sales team on: info@canvasprintsonline.com.
Most of our customers our keen to purchase giclee print reproductions of our artist’s original painting’s. This is mainly because they are priced less than if you were to buy an original. The quality of the print reproduction is however, exceptional.
It is an interesting and methodical process that the artist undertakes to complete one of his painting’s. We will show you exactly how they are produced in an article due to published next week. Please come back to see how it is done!
Bob Marley Original Painting
