Distributing images correctly

Question

I'm writing this text, and I have some images which I would like to put in the text. I am using

\usepackage{subfig}
\usepackage{float}

in my preamble, so I can force the figures to stay where I want, instead of go flying. Now, I'm trying to put three images at once, but they stay in one page all together, wasting good space from the previous page. Breaking everything into two environments figure makes the labelling (a), (b), (c) go away. I want to keep this labelling. Also, removing the [H] does not help. What do I do?

Code:

\begin{figure}[H] 

\centering 

\subfloat[A aplicação de Gauss no
 $R^3$.]{\includegraphics[scale =
 0.7]{Imagens_L3/Capitulo_7/Mapa_de_Gauss_R3}}

\subfloat[A aplicação de Gauss de uma superfície tipo
 espaço]{\includegraphics[scale =
 0.7]{Imagens_L3/Capitulo_7/Mapa_de_Gauss_Sitter}}

\subfloat[A aplicação de Gauss de uma superfície tipo
 tempo.]{\includegraphics[scale =
 0.7]{Imagens_L3/Capitulo_7/Mapa_de_Gauss_PH}}

\end{figure}

How it is now:

Answer 1

You can use \ContinuedFloat from caption package and for subfigures, use subcaption package.

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{graphicx}

\usepackage{caption}
\usepackage{subcaption}
\DeclareCaptionLabelFormat{continued}{#1~#2 (Cont.)}
\captionsetup[ContinuedFloat]{labelformat=continued}

\begin{document}
\begin{figure}
\centering
      \begin{subfigure}{\linewidth}
        \includegraphics[width=\linewidth]{example-image-a}
        \caption{}
      \end{subfigure}
      \begin{subfigure}{\linewidth}
        \includegraphics[width=\linewidth]{example-image-b}
        \caption{}
      \end{subfigure}
      \caption{Some figure and its caption}
\end{figure}
\begin{figure}
\ContinuedFloat
\centering
      \begin{subfigure}{\linewidth}
        \includegraphics[width=\linewidth]{example-image-c}
        \caption{}
      \end{subfigure}
      \begin{subfigure}{\linewidth}
        \includegraphics[width=\linewidth]{example-image}
        \caption{}
      \end{subfigure}
      \caption{Some figure and its caption}
\end{figure}

\end{document}