Photographing Mountains: Experts Share their Top Tips for Beginners
and their Must-Have Victorinox Products

Brought together by a shared love of two things – photography and the beautiful Swiss Alps – a group of twelve young creatives formed The Helvetic Collective in 2015. Although they are based all over Switzerland, the look and feel of their photography is surprisingly uniform. “We formed the Collective because of the strong synergies between our photography styles, although we each have our unique signature” says Tobias Meyer, one of the original members.

It was during the course of this partnership that the photographers discovered just how useful Victorinox gear can be. “Although not all of us live in the big cities of Switzerland like Zürich, Basel or Bern, we are often there for business meetings or just for creative meet-ups in a coffee shop or bar” says Tobias. “For us it is important to have gear that is sturdy and practical not only when we are shooting outdoors, but that won’t look out of place if we have a partnership meeting with a large brand. Some of the group are still students, so we cannot always afford to buy two bags or two different watches for example”.

Planning
Planning is key when shooting mountain scenery: you should know the weather forecast, plus the times of sunrise, blue hour and sunset before you even leave your house. Working with maps can help you visualize the pictures you want to shoot. For example, if you want to shoot a sunrise, make sure that no mountains will hide the sun.

Shooting
When on location and waiting for the perfect moment, make sure you take plenty of test shots to make sure that the composition and the settings are correct. In terms of composition, try to be creative – you don’t always have to put the subject in the center of the frame. Make sure you know how aperture, shutter speed and ISO are correlated. Depending on the effect you want to achieve, you’ll have to balance between those three. To begin with, you don’t need the best and most expensive equipment, just a camera that allows you to set everything manually.

Post-production
After shooting it is now time to sort and edit the pictures you have shot. Before editing, sort your pictures so that you have a small and more manageable amount to edit. When editing, try to remember how you actually saw the scenery that you have shot, and how you felt when shooting it. The goal of editing is to recreate this feeling.

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