How to take amazing photos when you see beautiful people?

I especially like reading this kind of book which focuses on pictures. However, I can't go to the camera to take pictures, but I yearn for it. The reason why I can't be here is because my own landscape photos make others completely unable to recognize where the characteristic buildings are, and the photos taken for my girlfriend will be killed in minutes (mainly because there is no digital camera). But I still take pictures with my mobile phone. I believe that as long as I keep taking pictures, I can always take good pictures.

Although I didn't buy a digital camera, I read this book and squeezed the nutrition out of the fruit in the spirit of squeezing juice, so I must write a summary after reading it. What if it helps people with the same needs? It not only exercised my summing-up ability, but also helped some people (such as those who need to take pictures of their girlfriends).

This article is just a summary of my daily photography and reading this book. If there are any fallacies, please criticize and correct them.

Now that I think about it, there are two most important things in taking pictures, one is composition and the other is color.

First, composition

I didn't want to finish a few sentences extracted from the book, so I wrote it myself.

The purpose of composition is to highlight the target and dilute the background.

(1) If it is a static object, it needs to highlight its quietness, such as a calm lake water and a baby's quiet smiling face. Seeing nature gives people a power to calm or warm their hearts.

A sleeping baby

(2) If it is a dynamic object, it is necessary to highlight its dynamic nature. For example, galloping athletes, such as driving cars, flashing lights at night, falling waterfalls and so on. You need to choose a good time to take a snapshot and freeze the most wonderful moment in that action.

A galloping athlete

(3) If it is a scene, it needs to be matched with a reasonable depth of field, highlighting its horizontal distance and aesthetic feeling of composition, and using the lines in the environment to compose a composition, such as corridors, horizons, banks, fences, roads, etc. Through such lines, the structural relationship in the picture is constructed.

long gallery

(4) If you are an animal, you need to capture your moving side, your interactive side or your most prominent side, and think about composition, otherwise the picture you get will be chaotic.

Quiet Hal

(5) If it is a character, you need to grasp the moment when the character's expression changes, such as a girl's smile when she looks back, and an athlete's mood at that moment after winning the prize. Details are often the most beautiful, and what can be grasped is king.

Lotus and dragonfly

Second, color.

Whether painting or taking pictures, color matching is extremely important. Someone once told me that the red flowers and green grass in nature are particularly beautiful, but if a person's clothes are red with big green, they will be ugly. Therefore, color matching is extremely important in composition.

(1) If it is a food photo, it is suitable for being warm, attractive and appetizing, and the pictures should be mainly red, orange and yellow.

Can't live up to the food.

(2) If it is a photo of a person, it should be matched with reasonable colors according to the scene where the person is located. Only when the individual is in harmony with the background of the scene can the mental outlook of the person be better reflected. Of course, this part is an exception for some actors, because some actors can play what they like and are hardly affected by this collocation.

(3) If it is a natural picture, such as a desert, it needs to be matched with shadows to get a better effect; If it is the sea, it is necessary to use the horizon and other compositions to reflect the scene of the intersection of the sea and the sky to show its grandeur and vastness; When shooting waterfalls, it is necessary to match the trees in the environment with the green of the trees as the background to better highlight the white of the waterfalls.

Although we wrote the above summary, we can always find some photos, which highlight the routine and can hardly be analyzed by any theory, but they are extremely beautiful. I want to say that there is always some difference between taking photos and becoming a great artist. It is difficult for artists to learn directly from books, and it is more a reflection of the interactive mapping of inspiration and diligence.

It can even be summed up in the words of the oil seller: "There is no one but familiar ears."

Even if you don't know any skills, you can always find which one looks good from the comparison if you shoot too much, right? Finding out which is more beautiful is the first step towards photography.

I don't know if these tips will help your photo-taking skills.

If there is, please like it and pay attention to "reading and self-cultivation" in the upper right corner.

Liu Fei Falls

Keywords: photography, skills, natural scenery, people, animals

References:

[1] Guangyi Institute of Imaging. Digital photography from entry to mastery [M], Beijing: Electronic Industry Press, 20 17 (9): 1-224.