Photographic composition skills. Golden section. Let you take different photos.

"Golden section" is a widespread phenomenon in nature. Simply put, the subject of photography is about one third of the picture, which makes people feel that the picture is harmonious and full of beauty. "golden section" is also called "three-way division", which is to divide the whole picture into three equal parts with two straight lines in horizontal and vertical directions. We put the subject of shooting on any straight line or the intersection of straight lines, which is more in line with human visual habits. When shooting, you can directly call out the auxiliary line of the camera "well" and put the subject on the four intersections, and the picture will come to life immediately.

For the camera with the focus in the center, you can focus on the subject by pressing the shutter half first, and then re-compose the picture. Be careful not to release the shutter during the process, keep the shutter half pressed, and don't move the camera back and forth and zoom.

Highlight the theme with a concise background

For portrait photography, people are the main object of portrait photography and an important part of the picture. It is not only the center of the picture content, but also the center of the picture structure, and other scenery should form a whole around it. So what photographers need to pay attention to most in the picture is how to highlight the characters.

For beginners, the easiest way to highlight characters is to find a relatively simple and clean background. For example, a clean and uncomplicated background, such as a white wall and a piece of green grass, allows photographers only to focus on the characters, without worrying about the failure of the photos caused by the bad relationship between the characters and the background.

In addition, photographers should pay attention to the fact that eyes are very important for portrait photography, especially for close-ups of busts. Therefore, as far as possible, putting the eye part of the character in the prominent horizontal line position of 1/3 can not only highlight the main body of the picture, but also make the composition more appropriate and harmonious.

Highlight the subject with a fuzzy background

If you want to further highlight the main body of the characters, beginners can also consider using the method of blurring the background to highlight the characters. This method of blurring background can also eliminate the interference of messy background on the main body of the character. Using the medium telephoto lens can not only represent the characters more realistically, but also achieve a perfect blur effect. If the environment is of little use to the characters. Can be deeply blurred; If you need to explain some environmental factors, but at the same time you don't want them to affect the main body of the characters, then you can do moderate blurring (the method of background blurring will be discussed later) to achieve the unity of the two.

Reasonable collocation of characters and scenery

If the characters are not properly matched with the background, there will be incorrect composition forms such as trees and columns above the characters' heads or branches growing on their shoulders. This requires photographers to pay attention to the fact that when there is a background such as tall trees or towers behind the subject, it is necessary to consider moving the subject a little bit to avoid overlapping trees and people as backgrounds. Of course, you can also soften the background a little to make the characters stand out.

Grasp the choice position of the character's limbs

Another mistake that novices are prone to make is that when shooting a bust, they can't grasp the position of the limbs of the characters, and often there will be pictures of broken arms and waist. For beginners, take photos with the viewfinder, and pay special attention not to cut through the joints of the characters. In other words, don't cut the bottom of the frame from the elbow, waist or knee, and don't cut both sides of the frame from the wrist or elbow. If you have to cut from the arm or leg, you should also try to skip the joint.

The relationship between characters and scenery

The choice of scenery and the reasonable collocation of characters and scenery are the keys to tourist portrait photography. Everywhere I go, there are the most typical and representative local scenery. Even some small cities have their own scenic features. This requires photographers to properly arrange the subjects in this unique landscape, so that photos can be the most favorable proof of "visiting here", otherwise it is no different from taking photos at home. I have seen someone take pictures under the steel frame of the Bird's Nest. Kind of like a blind man touching an elephant.

Photographers should pay attention to the composition and collocation of characters and scenery during shooting. When taking tourist photos, there are often two problems: one is the improper position of the characters, that is, the scenery is blocked; Another situation is that there are too many scenes and the characters are not obvious (the characters are too small to be found without careful look). Therefore, the position of the subject is very important when taking photos combining people and scenes. The subject of tourist portrait photography is people, and the scenic spots can only be used as the background, but they are also typical and meaningful backgrounds, and their integrity should be maintained.

The main characters should occupy at least one-fifth of the whole photo, because if we take too few people in the portrait photo, the scenery in the whole photo will become a kind of interference, and novices should pay special attention. Generally speaking, in tourist portrait photography, scenic spots account for about two-thirds of the picture, while people account for about one-third of the picture.

The most common composition of people's position is to put people in the middle of the photo, but now the most popular position of people is in the golden grid point of the whole photo, that is, in the left third or right third of the photo, which seems to make the photo more natural, depending on the actual situation.

Of course, wide-angle and standard lenses are widely used because they can better capture and express the relationship between scenery and people. Although the natural scenery is vast, not every detail needs to enter the picture, so when shooting, we should choose some typical details or parts to make the picture more artistic. For local depiction and description, telephoto lens is also essential. In addition, the blur effect of telephoto lens on the background can also give people a different aesthetic feeling.

It is worth noting that people tend to lean toward the center of the photo, and leaning outward will give people a sense of awkwardness. Of course, if you deliberately want to express a certain style, it is a special case, and you can shoot according to your own preferences.

If the light forms a 45-degree angle with the front of the building, the contrast between light and shade is sharp and the three-dimensional sense is strong, it is easy to show the temperament of the building itself.

Add some visual elements appropriately to make the big scene no longer monotonous.

For large scenes, such as sea, lake, grassland and desert, photographers will use wide-angle field of vision extensively. However, scenery shooting is also very particular. If you only shoot the sea surface and sand dunes, the colors will be monotonous.

If some other scenery, colors, footprints and people are accommodated in the picture, even if it is far away, it can play the role of color matching and will have a different taste. So photography is a very self-centered thing, and there are many things to experience by yourself.

Composition review

Story . 1

The collocation of scenes and portraits can combine ever-changing images and results. Sometimes, the composition seems to be disorganized, but there are still some principles to follow.

In the section # 1, let's look at the most common mistakes in portrait photography.

1. False demonstration: In this image from the perspective of people, the lines of building columns are obviously above the heads of people. This kind of situation is just like shooting branches and trunks on the head of a character when shooting outside, which is quite strange.

In addition, the sight space of the figure 1 character seems to be too little.

2. Composition improvement: The above problems can be solved by slightly adjusting the shooting angle, avoiding the lines of building columns, and turning the camera's framing range to the right to leave more lines of sight.

Beautiful photos # 1 (wide-angle lens photography)

Venue: Dublin, Ohio, USA

The focus of photography: the beautiful scenery created by nature and people's beautiful life posture form a picture.

Beautiful photo #2 (wide-angle lens photography)

Venue: Dublin, Ohio, USA

The focus of photography: the beautiful scenery created by nature and people's beautiful life posture form a picture. See right angle. (Full shot)17mm

Beautiful photo #3 (wide-angle lens photography)

Venue: Sudoguksan Museum, Moon Park, Incheon

Photography focus: blend two lovely little girls into the blue sky background. Low angle. (Full shot)18mm

● Canon EOS 300D, 1/640s, F3.5, ISO 100, 18mm.

Beautiful photo #4 (wide-angle lens photography)

Venue: Yuan Ye, Tieyuan

Key points of photography: the picture captures the blue sky, the woman holding autumn flowers, the color of clothes and the yellow leaves synchronously, deliberately exaggerating the thick autumn meaning. Waist shot. 10 ~ 20mm