How to take good photos with SLR

How to take a good photo with a SLR camera? Here I have compiled the basic photography skills of a SLR camera for you, hoping to help you!

First, how to take a good photo

Many times, when we have a camera with good performance, we can't take satisfactory photos. The reason is that the printed effect is not the same as that seen when shooting, especially in terms of pigments.

Former AFP photojournalist John? Yi, whose works have been published in major newspapers in China. Among them, in last year's South Asian tsunami incident, he took amazing photos of the disaster scene in Phuket, Thailand, and let the world see Phuket, which was hit hard by the tsunami. Besides, he was the only professional photographer on the island at the time of the incident.

Cosgrove, a well-known photographer, pointed out that in order to take good photos, digital camera users only need to know the following four elements to control digital cameras: white balance, color space, how to maintain digital cameras and control shooting speed.

1, new machine reset

He reminded users who just bought digital cameras not to let them keep "automatic settings" when they leave the factory. These automatic settings include: white balance, ISO speed and contrast. Adjusting these settings to initialization settings will help improve the visibility of photos.

2. Make good use of white balance

He also suggested that photographers should try shooting in different white balance modes. In particular, shooting some pictures with characters inside can create a different feeling. For example, using sunlight or candlelight mode, the characters in the picture are brought out of the breath of life through photos, making the photos look vivid.

3, understand the camera color gamut

Digital cameras process photos through digital chips and analyze the colors in the photos. Controlling the color gamut of these important parts of color distribution enables digital cameras to identify various colors. He also pointed out that in the color gamut, there are red, blue and cyan respectively, instead of the traditional red, blue and cyan.

He pointed out that general digital cameras use sRGB color gamut, which is often close to the natural color gamut of the real world. Now there is an Adobe RGB color gamut with a wider color gamut, which can make photos look brighter.

Users must understand this to avoid any difference between the photos taken and the results developed.

4. Fully maintain the camera

For a battery-driven camera, if it is not started for a long time, it is best to take out the battery to avoid affecting the camera body. In addition, every time the photos in the memory card are downloaded to the computer for storage or modification, the photos will be stored or burned on the CD. Do not use the memory card for long-term storage to avoid losing it.

At the same time, after each photo download, format the memory card with the camera to make good use of the space in each memory card. When not in use, please store it in a clean and dry place to prolong the service life of electronic instruments.

Secondly, it must be silly to introduce digital photography.

Nowadays, digital cameras are becoming more and more powerful, and some functions are not even available in professional optical cameras, such as white balance adjustment, enclosed photography, scene mode photography, multi-point area evaluation photometry, multi-point focusing and offset focusing. And the automatic exposure function is becoming more and more powerful and perfect. It seems natural to take good photos with a digital camera, but it is not that easy in fact.

If you want to take more good photos, especially in harsh environmental conditions, it depends on your familiarity and deep understanding of your own photographic equipment, which requires a little basic knowledge of photography and aesthetic cultivation, and more importantly, long-term experience accumulation, so it is not easy to get. I'm still a novice in digital photography. I don't have much experience, but I have encountered many nails. I often get different photos and the results are satisfactory. I can also sum up something after careful memory and experience. Some below? Stupid trick? It may have certain reference value for filmmakers who are still exploring their experience. These stupid tricks are:

Multi-lens selection

More shooting means more practice and more experience from a macro perspective. Specifically, we might as well try more shots to win more, choose the best from many, or carefully re-shoot a scene after exploring the best scheme. This is a stupid trick, but it is really a trick to give full play to the advantages of digital cameras. Optical photographers have no laws. You see, optical cameras shoot with film, so you can't know whether you are satisfied or not on the spot. We won't know until we develop it. Winning with more is bound to waste a lot of film, the cost is too high, and optical photographers often cherish it. Mirror? For example, if you don't press the shutter easily, you won't know the result until you carefully grab the lens and take a photo. It is difficult to be dissatisfied, and it is too late to remedy it. Therefore, old friends often lament that optical photography is an art full of regrets.

Digital photography is different. The image is now stored on the magnetic carrier of the machine, and can now be played back and observed. If you are not satisfied, get rid of them and start over. This is a great advantage of digital photography. So now I usually set a topic first and select several scenes around the topic. First, each scene revolves around it several times, and the shooting scheme under different angles and different lighting conditions (backlight, shun-light, photometry, fill-light, etc.) is drawn up. ), and then I did not hesitate to shoot. Sometimes I shoot the same project from the same angle several times and then stop to play it back. Unsatisfied scenes are deleted on the spot, often ten to seven or eight. Then shoot a scene and brew it until a special topic is completed.

Generally speaking, two or three hundred or even four or five hundred shots were taken, leaving only seventy or eighty figures. After you come back, save it on the hard disk, then use ACDSee to enlarge and play it back, and delete a part. Then use the editing function of ACDSee to play back and do preliminary image processing. Generally speaking, one is to correct the deviation, the other is to delete and improve the composition when necessary, and the third is to use? Automatic level? Functional correction makes up for the deficiency of individual photo exposure. After this process, the photo can be considered as a preliminary finished product, and then it can be taken back to ACDSee for amplification and playback. If it is too mediocre, you can delete it again, so that there are only twenty or thirty or even a dozen photos left in each topic.