A stroll through Grand Park, Mt Rainier -- Washington, USA [OC] [3850x2567]KafkaSyd t1_itfhcvl wrote
How do you make mountains look big in pictures. I live in alaska for Christ's sake and the mountains always seem so small unless I'm on the side of one looking down. Haha!
BenCL648 t1_itghinq wrote
You use a Telephoto lense. When you zoom in it makes the background look much bigger than it actually is.
satellite779 t1_itgsv66 wrote
Nah. It was manipulated. This is how it looks even slightly more zoomed in.
Kaellian t1_itfm3dv wrote
OP simply zoomed on the mountain.
Or its part of a larger pictures that was cut.
Tit4nNL t1_itfqz0a wrote
It was also edited to make it look even bigger.
But yes having a zoomed in or using a narrower field of view lens does the trick wonderfully.
tianas_knife t1_itg56bx wrote
Some of it is lenses, some of it is composition
KafkaSyd t1_itgbku1 wrote
Well that's about as vague as you can get.
tianas_knife t1_itgg7kx wrote
I was in a pagan passion play in 2007, which was run by a local group of Greek mythology enthusiasts. During rehearsal, one of the women in cast did a remarkable job acting as a hot tempered goddess. I asked her how she learned how to do it. She frustratingly responded "A masters in acting."
The suggestion to return to design basics is short, vague, and not completely unhelpful. There are bunches of different ways to get back to the basics, paying attention to composition and equipment first would quickly solve the problem of how to take a good picture of a mountain like Mt. Tahoma.
If you don't like understanding principal design elements, just keep trying to take the picture in different ways until you're happy with the result. I don't know what to tell you otherwise, there is basically no info given to start giving better advice from.
Groote-Eelende t1_ith9sx5 wrote
Wow, you need a lot of words to say absolutely nothing!
tianas_knife t1_itikevg wrote
Man. You get vauge to explain it so they don't feel insulted and they don't like it. Then you explain in detail, and they don't like that either.
Go take photography classes. You'll figure it out.
cgibsong002 t1_itgjk9k wrote
As mentioned, the question is basically "how do I do photography". Learn the basics, watch YouTube videos of landscape photography introductions and generally intro to photography. Knowing how to use an ilc and what different lenses do is kind of the first thing you should learn.
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