The best place to see swans in Rongcheng Swan Lake

The best place to see swans in Rongcheng Swan Lake is Chezhugou Village.

From mid-June 10 to the end of March next year, tens of thousands of big swans have flown here for the winter, becoming the largest concentrated wintering habitat of big swans in China, praised as the "Oriental Swan Kingdom" by experts and scholars at home and abroad, and becoming a big winter landscape in northern China.

If you want to see the most authentic swan, you must come to Chezhugou Village. There are large reeds around the Swan Lake wetland here. Whether it's sunrise in the morning or sunset at night, it's beautiful to watch swans playing in the lake and taking pictures. When the sun rises in the morning, the images are full of waves, distant mountains, fishing boats moored in the harbor and quiet geese, which is absolutely art.

The way to shoot swans

First of all, the most important thing to shoot swans is the choice of time. Like shooting portraits and landscapes, swan shooting is actually only at sunrise and sunset in a day. Because swans are white animals, at sunrise or sunset, the sunshine is not very strong and the light ratio is not very large, so it is easier to take good photos. Moreover, because the sun is golden at sunrise and sunset, the white swan will have two colors: high-gloss gold and shadow blue, which will be more textured and layered.

In actual shooting, although the aperture of 100-400mm II is not very large, and the maximum aperture is only F4.5, the moment when a swan flies can still be photographed at sunrise and sunset with ISO 1600.

In the shooting of sunrise or sunset, the super telephoto advantage of 100-400mm II lens is suddenly highlighted. Usually before sunset 15 minutes, I don't shoot other swans, but aim at the sun with a focal length of 400mm and concentrate on waiting for the moment when the swan flies out of the sun. Because of the long focal length, the whole picture is as beautiful as a swan flying out of the sun.