Using Dynamic Cloud Movement for Outdoor Photography

You like photographing outdoor scenes with dramatic cloud formations, but there are many ways you can manipulate fast-moving clouds inside your camera. In this premium video, Outdoor Photography Guide’s David Johnston helps you capture dynamic cloud movement.

Photographers can lengthen the time a photo is taken. It’s called Long Exposure Photography, and the results are dramatic. To create cloud movement in your image, you may need a 30-60 second exposure. David suggests setting up your tripod so that the clouds move toward or away from the camera. He sets up low along the ground and uses a neutral density filter to darken the scene because the time is mid-day. No need for the filter if you are shooting in early morning or at twilight.

The image result is clouds captured in a creamy movement. Beautiful.