How to shoot static scenes in photography

Novices who are exposed to landscape photography cannot accurately grasp its key points in focusing and exposure. How to set up a camera in order to incorporate this beautiful mountain and water into the lens? The following will tell you that shooting scenes from focus mode, using EV exposure method, and shooting modes of dynamic and static scenes can all get good pictures!

Select the best focus mode.

At present, the autofocus system can focus in almost complete darkness, or continuously focus on birds, and can automatically choose which part of the real scene to focus on. Some new generation systems can first identify faces to focus on, or automatically select the best focus when multiple faces appear in a photo at the same time. In short, all kinds of focusing methods have their own advantages, so it is recommended to choose the appropriate focusing method for the subject you want to shoot.

Focus mode

Single autofocus: a single autofocus of a static theme. Press the shutter button halfway at the shooting target and the camera will focus once.

Continuous autofocus: suitable for moving objects with changing focal length. If you keep pressing the shutter button for half a time, the subject will be continuously focused.

Manual focusing: set the lens focusing mode switch to, and turn the lens focusing ring to focus, so as to confirm whether the subject in the viewfinder becomes clear with naked eyes.

Timing of using AF and MF

Generally speaking, the basis of photography is accurate focusing. When shooting static scenery such as mountains and rivers, you can use a single autofocus; It is recommended to use continuous autofocus when shooting free cars, sports and other subjects.

When using single autofocus, the camera will automatically focus on the object when the focus overlaps with the subject. When the shutter is half pressed, the focus position will be locked, and the composition can be re-composed with a fixed focus. If you use the continuous autofocus function, you must track the moving state of the object from the viewer.

If focusing may not be successful, you must switch to manual focusing in the following cases:

Examples of low contrast themes are blue sky and monochrome walls.

Examples in low light are mainly night scenes and starry sky.

Examples of objects with strong backlight or reflection: cars with reflective bodies.

Birds in cages, far and near scenes cover autofocus points at the same time.

Examples of repeating patterns are lattice windows, computer keyboards.

The difference between focus position and imaging

Different focus positions will also change the impression of photos. Even the same picture will be very different because of the different focus positions. When the focus is close to you, the background will be blurred and the focus will be clear; Relative to the shooting distance, the farther the camera is from the background, the more blurred the background will be. Therefore, in order to get a clear background, the distance between the background and the subject should be very close. In addition, when the focus is farthest, the fuzzy foreground can set off the sense of distance of the subject. This method can be used when emphasizing the sense of spatial distance.

Exposure mode

After determining the metering mode, the next step is to choose the correct exposure mode. When shooting a dynamic scene, you can choose the shutter prerequisite mode, which can decide the shutter speed by yourself, and the action has been accurately captured; When shooting static scenes, the aperture priority mode which can freely control the depth of field is more suitable.

Select the exposure mode according to the subject.

Automatic ISO

In negative photography, the sensitivity of different negatives to sensitivity is expressed. In the digital age, the sensitivity can be changed by adjusting the sensitivity of photosensitive elements (CCD or CMOS) to light. Today's cameras can directly change the sensitivity to obtain different degrees of exposure. Some high-end cameras will even automatically improve the sensitivity of the photosensitive element in the case of insufficient light at the scene, that is, Auto ISO (automatic sensitivity function), which can shorten the shutter time to the safety shutter when shooting manually (which will be explained later) to avoid hand shock.

Exposure compensation

According to the intention of the performance, we may think that if we can increase or decrease the exposure, the effect of the photo will be better, which is usually subjective. Sometimes it's not that the camera's metering system is wrong, but that it can't read your creativity. At this time, as long as the exposure is reduced (minus eV or negative compensation), the image will become dark, while the exposure is increased (plus eV or positive compensation), it will become bright, which can increase the creativity of the work. If you can't determine the best exposure value at the moment, you can shoot with peripheral exposure, and then choose the best imaging.