from buying his first camera has, Xiao Zhao thought he was a photography enthusiast, a daily pat on the East with a camera, look in the West, leisure Shihai out his own photographs for everyone to see.

However, the recent Xiao Zhao met a troubled, though the number of his photos a lot, but when looking at the others, find it hard to be recognized; even Xiao Zhao's friends say his photos feel something missing.

for this view, Xiao Zhao began to feel the eyes of others may not, so we can not accept their own photos, but more and more people look after Xiao Zhao started to feel some problems may indeed own. Xiao Zhao pulls out his most recent photographs taken two years ago, he began to dislike them.

Thus, Xiao Zhao took these photos to some professional photography friends and play a bit.

after a detailed inquiry, Xiao Zhao know, the reason why his photo is not good, not because of less exercise, but mainly because of their theoretical knowledge too little. While experience is one thing, but there is no theoretical knowledge to guide, even the better scenes, pictures may not be able to photograph well.

Now, let us look, Xiao Zhao in the near future some of the learning experience it, I believe these experiences will be of some beginner readers have a certain inspiration.

A composition

for photography is concerned, it can be said composition is one of the most important factor in the. Good ideas, combined with a reasonable composition, in order to capture the author's intention more prominent. We can say that a work is successful to a large extent also depends on the composition.

Maybe some readers will ask: composition really so important? Look at the following few pictures, perhaps you will understand.

over these two pictures, taken as part of tourism in the photos, according to the classification point of view, is landscape portrait. But I do not know if you find that there are two pictures are actually the same problem, that imbalance figures and landscapes, people face are not easy to see even the people to commemorate the significance of natural greatly reduced, the whole picture is more biased in favor of landscape photography.

Here, we can adjust the photographer and the subject's position between the other person to occupy the entire picture more space . For example, the following figure:

addition to a reasonable size outside of the main position in the picture is a rather important part. Previously issued two photographs, picture the middle of the main location is located, it is very unreasonable position. This will not only lead to disharmony entire photo will reduce the viewer's attention from the main body, the whole picture is difficult to show the photographer's idea.

In fact, the vast majority of digital cameras for our composition provides a very useful auxiliary functions - squared. Through four intersecting lines, such as the screen is divided into nine. Just try to place the subject near the intersection of four, you can take out the main highlight of the photo.

we can not only to highlight the main subject position, but also through actual situation between chiaroscuro to highlight the subject.

In fact, the composition should be noted that a lot of things, not only need to analyze want to show the contents of the main position, but also to estimate the overall balance, make a photo look more symmetrical, in line with people's aesthetic. Definitely do not want anything," click" look so simple.

Tips : the Apex School of channels to" composition" as the keyword contraction, you can search a lot of very practical knowledge of the composition.

Second, the light

photography is the light of art, if not light, photography, nature out of the question. Light, the key is to note the nature of light, direction, color and wavelength, etc.

For the average photographer, the light is mainly side note the angle of light.

light angle

light angle is also a very important concept, and perhaps you will ask: light enough, the composition is not reasonable enough? Also what angle it? As everyone knows, the angle of light for a picture, this can play a finishing touch. Choose the right angle of light, not only the characteristics of your photos more clearly, but also the overall atmosphere of good contrast.

light in photographic processing, the main point of light divided along the light, smooth side light (Xiece light), side, side Backlight, Backlight, Backlight and foot roof light. Various angles of light, and even a little bit of change in the angle of light, so the effect will be very different.

Exposure Control

addition to the angle of light outside, by controlling the light incident volume, and the reasonable exposure control, but also a very important job.

exposure control is mainly used to adjust the picture's overall brightness, if the subject is too dark, you need to adjust the exposure compensation to increase the brightness, and if subjects with high light, you need the right to reduce compensation to avoid overexposure.

a lot of people shooting in the works, over exposure, underexposed phenomenon are obvious. Take the above picture, the vast expanse of the resort itself is a good film theme, but this photo of the author, but did not pay attention to snow for the high-brightness photo impact, and only auto-exposure to complete the photo shoot. Snow shot, if shot with an average metering, exposure may lead to lack of snow will be gray, but if you use partial metering, metering zone was not any in the snow, then it may cause the snow on the entire picture had basically exposure, there is no layering.

Many beginners will ask how a reasonable exposure it? I manually adjust the time is still very prone to overexposure or underexposure ah. In fact, now many models support a manual called" bracketing" mode, in this mode, the camera can shoot continuously in a short time more than one image, in which the exposure settings for each image There are subtle differences in the camera after browsing through the computer, in general, you can choose the appropriate exposure of a photo.

Third, the auxiliary equipment

in addition to shooting skills, this time, Xiao Zhao also learned the importance of auxiliary equipment for photography.

Xiao Zhao:" A lot of friends that go out to shoot, a camera is already sufficient. But it is not, by the recent study, I understand that there are certain photographs of the shooting, need a lot of auxiliary equipment to complete. to say the least, say this little tripod it, looks past I have always felt is true would not have a tripod, and usually also more too lazy to back, but this time, I snapped a photo, if not a tripod, the picture blurred die early."

reasonable adjustment aperture shutter, and with a tripod, you can get a good night photos.

auxiliary equipment, in fact, digital photography's role is quite large, Xiao Zhao said that the tripod is a more common example, other of like a flash, shutter release, reflectors, etc., are in the photo has a significant role.

Take the flash, although the body can satisfy the built-in flash to illuminate the role of the subject, but because of built-in flash light angle is too flat, and the hardness is relatively large, so use it to shoot photos are usually more dull, dull. Just use an external flash, slightly adjust the look angle, the reflected light with flash to illuminate the subject, the overall stereoscopic pictures will be greatly enhanced.

In addition, in fact, not only in the light flash when sufficient use, and backlit film, when in use, will get unexpected results.

four advanced skills

slow door applications

Xiao Zhao:" In the past I think the shutter sooner the better, so Not only the photo shoot is not easy to empty, and easier to capture the moment by a recent study, I found the original shutter speed is not as fast as possible, but reasonable, appropriate applications."

through the slow gate of the application, we can take out the special effects, took water shooting, for example, under normal circumstances in the use of 1/30 sec shutter speed, allowing the water more ethereal, dynamic beauty.

follow-style shooting

following the shooting also known as the tracking shot, is shooting moving objects, especially horizontal linear motion effects commonly used objects. Since the moment of exposure, moving objects relative to the movement of the camera is static, and static background relative to the movement of the camera is moving, thus making the movement of objects on the screen more clear while the background is a strong linear fuzzy , and thus the impact force and dynamic picture is also particularly strong.

multiple exposure

use film camera, in a film on the twice or more than twice the exposure, the use of ghost or shadow form content linked to a picture, this method is called multiple exposure photography method. Digital cameras generally do not have multi-exposure feature, but in the latter part of the overlay is more convenient and flexible.

traditional methods, we use spare cover (also can use black paper) the implementation of cloned synthetic photography: the use of spare cover, first block half, once exposed, and then block the other half, re-introduction of the exposure, thus completed a multi-exposure. Or a larger difference between light and dark subjects, we first record the location of a good dark, then light exposure standards once the Ministry of exposure. After that, we recorded dark according to the specific location, the use of dark area (the first part of this exposure is basically no sensitivity) to re-exposure, repeated exposure can achieve the same purpose.

Fifth, post-processing

in the shoot is finished, we often find some shortcomings, But it was too late to go Bupai. Only time will come again, and shooting scenes, the atmosphere may not be long retained.

this time, appropriate post-adjustment, not only can these shortcomings disappear, but also to a certain extent, improve the picture of the overall effect.

Original

This product pictures, taken in itself is not successful, not only underexposed, but also with the main color of the background is a mix, so that the subject is not prominent.

easy to adjust brightness and contrast After

simple to improve the brightness and contrast, the effect of entire photo has been greatly improved, but the overall tone is too dark, giving still not feeling well.

color filter processing

Then, we adopted the layer options, a simple color filter, the whole picture is completely different, not only the main legible, and degree of background blur, but also revealed a clear out.

through the latter part of the adjustment, we can also apply for more photos; a good digital photos, but also needs some post-processing .

Finally, some commonly used terms order a bit, so readers know where.

focus - the lens center to its focal point. Focal length of the unit usually mm (millimeters) to indicate that a lens focal length are generally marked on the front of the lens, such as f=50mm (this is what we usually call" standard lens" ) ,28-70mm (the most commonly used lens) ,70-210mm (telephoto lens), etc.

aperture - the lens is used to control the amount of light the size of the device.

shutter - the length of time used to control the exposure device. Shutter curtain can be divided into between the shutter and mirror steel blade shutter and shutter three. Shutter curtain which can be divided into vertical-travel shutter curtain, horizontal-travel shutter curtain. Steel can achieve higher shutter speeds (currently a maximum shutter speed of 1/12000 seconds). Mirror shutter blade between the maximum speed is generally not more than 1/500 second, but the mirror shutter blade between the biggest advantage is when shooting extremely low noise, very conducive to candid, and can achieve full speed range Sync.

shutter speed - the shutter open time. It is a light sweep of film time (exposure time). For example, the" 1/30" refers to the exposure time of 1/30 seconds, the same," 1/60" refers to the exposure time of 1/60 sec, 1/60 second shutter is 1/30 second shutter speed twice . The rest and so on.

sensitivity - that the speed of light-sensitive photographic materials. Sensitivity of the unit with the" degree" or" fixed" to represent, such as" ISO100/21" said the sensitivity is 100 degrees/21 film set. The higher the sensitivity, the more sensitive the film (shot in the same environment that is normally required for a photo shoot with less light, their performance can be used at a higher shutter or smaller aperture). 200 degrees of sensitivity of photosensitive film is the film 2 times 100 degrees, 400 degrees of the film's sensitivity is 200-degree film twice, the rest and so on.

color temperature - a variety of different colors of light contained in the called" color temperature." Color temperature of the unit" K" (Kelvin). We usually used for daylight-type color negative film that can adapt to the color temperature of 5400K-5600K; light type A, B type can adapt to the color temperature was 3400K and 3200K. Therefore, we must according to the subject, the environment to select different types of film, otherwise it will appear the phenomenon of color cast (unless the color temperature correction filter).

exposure - the light reaching the film surface so that the process of photographic film. Must be noted that, we say that the exposure is the Film, which is necessary for us to get the photos through a process. This non-professionals call" exposure" very different from what they called" exposure" refers to invalid due to camera film leaked cause accidents.


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