How to take a picture like an oil painting, and what are the oil painting skills?

MattMolly was inspired by time-lapse photography. Time superposition is to condense a video into a photo. In the photo, the trajectory of clouds in the sky is like painting with a brush, which makes people feel that they are enjoying painting. This set of photos gives people a different view of time and a unique sense of movement. He combines photography with abstract art to capture the charming scene where the sky has been moving. What would happen if ClaudeMonet lived in the digital photo revolution?

Shooting skill

1. Use tripod and shutter remote control to ensure that there is no movement between pictures (slow shutter) when shooting the trajectory of time lapse. Find a scene that combines static and dynamic, such as the church bell tower and the fast moving clouds. Sunset is a good time to use this technology.

2. Manual mode shooting ensures continuous and stable exposure of photos. Measure the brightest part of the playground scene except the sun (that is, the details of the brightest area should be preserved first), and the object at this time is usually the cloud in the sunlight scene. If the clouds are overexposed, the final shot will be pure white lines in the sky.

3. Take more photos, about 80 to 600. Usually take a picture every five seconds. When the cloud moves fast, you need to shorten the interval, and when the cloud moves slowly, you need to increase the interval. Otherwise, the images you take will lack motion.

4. I suggest that not all time stacks need to use every photo material taken in the early stage. If you merge too many photos at once, it may make the picture look confusing, so reduce the number of photos. Usually, I will start with all the photos, get a rough effect, then selectively subtract some and try again. So there is not an accurate number of photos here, and you need to keep trying and finally merge them into a perfect work.

Matt explained that open the first photo of the time-lapse image you took and use it as your background layer, and then put the second photo in it to create a new layer. Set the blending mode of the upper layer to brighten mode and merge the two layers. This operation can keep the brighter pixels in the mixed color and replace other darker parts.

After that, you can choose the appropriate number of photos according to your personal preferences and repeat the above operations. After mixing the images, I will further adjust the picture level and contrast, as well as shadow highlights to deepen the tone. After some practice, you will finally get the effect you want.

During the day, we can shoot the sky like oil painting, and at night, the stars in the sky can also let us shoot beautiful starry sky.

With the camera's higher sensitivity and less noise, it is no longer difficult to take a clear night view. Shooting, focusing and composition in dark environment are all problems, so you should practice more related skills before starting shooting. Switching the camera to manual focusing mode and using the real-time preview function to provide assistance are often more ideal than using the viewfinder to observe the effect. The exposure mode should also be set to manual. Because the brightness of starlight in the sky and the brightness of light pollution in the city below are different from place to place, it is necessary to take many shots before the official shooting to determine the best exposure combination.

Cloudless Wan Li is the best time to shoot the starry sky. Pay attention to the weather forecast before you leave. If the moon is too big, it is difficult to capture the details of the whole sky in one exposure. In order to control the exposure time and prevent the stars from pulling out of the wake, at least the sensitivity should be adjusted to ISO 1600 or ISO3200. Even so, you still need to turn the aperture to f/4 or even f/2.8. In other words, it is difficult for us to get a picture with the foreground as clear as the starry sky through one exposure. The best choice is to shoot twice, once focusing on infinity and once focusing on the foreground, and then synthesize it in Photoshop.

The above is about how to take pictures like oil painting, I hope it will help you!