How To Photograph Roads

Posted by Stretch | Filed under Blogs, Photography

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Sure, shooting a road is pretty simple, but to get the most out of your photo, you may want to bring into consideration of some of these tips. Your style may not go along with these, but thats OK, that’s why its your style.

Road construction requires the creation of a continuous right-of-way, overcoming geographic obstacles and having grades low enough to permit vehicle or foot travel. This means you will find interesting sinuous shapes of roads.

Notice that in most of the cases the road should be free of cars and walkers. Two exceptions are noticeable: the pictures depicting intense city traffic and the night roads when a car leaves behind a rail of light.

As I said many times before, following the weather helps a lot: fog or rain give special effects, and, in the case of train rails, sunrise is also creating a mystical atmosphere.

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Permalink | March 6th, 2007

2 Responses to “How To Photograph Roads”

  1. apriel Says:
    March 6th, 2007 at 12:40 pm

    can i use zoom lens for this job :??

  2. Stretch Says:
    March 6th, 2007 at 2:48 pm

    Use whatever suits your style and needs.