How to take photos, how to take photos of daily life.

If you happen to have a macro lens in your hand, you are lucky, and you can get the effect we want with it. Otherwise, we need to make good use of the existing lens resources and know the nearest focal length of the lens. If there is neither a macro lens nor a lens with close-up ability, we can also highlight the details of the subject in the photo by cutting it properly in the later stage, but this requires us to ensure the quality of the picture in the early stage. I remember that our smart phone is actually a good macro photography tool, and generally has the ability to focus at close range.

Daily life photography course discovers the beauty of the unknown.

Looking for contrast

The "contrast" we emphasize here refers not only to the contrast in tone, but also to any element in the photo that can visually create a contrast impression, such as the contrast of object materials or the contrast of motion state. I have to say that the contrast of materials is really our best friend to create interesting pictures. Even if it doesn't look beautiful, we can create fun by comparison.

Top3: low angle, close to the racket.

Imperfections that are easily overlooked in life often appear at our feet, such as some deciduous weeds, rusty hinges and peeling walls, which are all good shooting subjects. If shot properly, its beauty will never be inferior to that of a blooming rose. But when shooting these subjects, we need to put down our bodies and shoot at a low angle as much as possible.

Top4: Arousing deep thinking

Never underestimate the power of symbols. When we see a photo that is not beautiful but full of desolation, we will instinctively understand that what this photo wants to convey is a feeling of loneliness, loneliness or being forgotten. In recent years, it seems to be a new trend to shoot some "relics" in places far away from the hubbub. Many photographers like to go deep into places abandoned or forgotten by people to find shooting materials, hoping to add those mysterious, lonely or horrible feelings to their photos. On the contrary, when we see a photo depicting a small flower blooming in a piece of rubble, we will feel hope again. So learn to use the tool of "symbol" to enhance the power of photos.

Daily life photography course discovers the beauty of the unknown.

Top5: Don't forget the ultimate artifact of photography-light.

Light is enough to make ordinary things look new. Learning to run out of light is always a compulsory course for everyone who wants to be a photographer. When we find and prepare to shoot an object, we should walk around it several times before composing a composition, and carefully observe the changes of light at different positions to see if there is a beam of light pouring down and hitting the object, or if there is a chance to use the "Tindal effect" to emit the light of God. Many times we will emphasize the prime time of shooting, that is, at sunrise or sunset. However, even if we shoot at noon, we can still take interesting photos with the shadow created by the sun.

Finally, you may find that by focusing on finding interesting shooting themes between those weeds and drains, this way will also benefit us when shooting other themes. If we only pay attention to those moments or things that look beautiful and perfect, we will miss many beautiful moments. The next time you are filming a wedding or a child's birthday party. Even if you encounter some unplanned situations or imperfect moments, you can calmly deal with them and shoot better works. Instead, these works will become the focus of discussion among relatives and friends in the future and will be remembered by people for several years.

Daily life photography course discovers the beauty of the unknown.

Find beauty in the ordinary.

As photographers, many times we hope that our works can attract the audience to stop and stay. Sometimes this kind of work may be a wonderful portrait, and sometimes it may be a photo recording an epic landscape. However, most people actually don't have many opportunities to experience or touch the shooting elements that can help us create excellent photos, and they rarely have the opportunity to own their own professional photography studio. Faced with this situation, we need to learn to find inspiration from ordinary things around us, knowing that life often hides beauty.

Daily life photography course discovers the beauty of the unknown.

Top7: Unknown Beauty

Another reason for finding the true meaning of beauty in ugliness is that we will be attracted by those imperfections, which is human nature. Imagine that the last photo that caught your attention was a model photo of a magazine. After PS, the skin was flawless, or an old woman was wrinkled? The more interesting things in life are usually imperfect. We prefer to be close to reality rather than create ideal perfection. Therefore, this spirit of looking for interesting things urges us to dig out the beauty from ugliness and bring back things that are often overlooked by people.

In the process of seeking beauty from the ordinary or ugly, we need to change our minds and learn to abandon those obvious shooting subjects. We can start with our daily living environment, including our living environment and working environment. All the photos of this topic are taken from the neighborhood of my neighbor's house and the campus environment where I work. The purpose of doing this is to see the world from a different angle and then take some different photos. Remember, what matters is the way we look at things, not the quality of the equipment in our hands, so we can use smart phones, a convenient camera tool, to try to discover those unknown beauty.