How to shoot beautiful women gracefully in the street?

The streets are full of fragrant shoulders and beautiful legs, and summer is the most exciting season for men in a year. However, in summer, Oda is always tortured by a desire not to try. ...

Oda is my good friend. He is a photographer. He likes and is good at photographing people. He usually attends friends' parties and weddings. The photos he takes often amaze professional photographers. Every summer, the streets are full of beautiful women from va va voom. They dangle in front of his eyes, stimulating his nerves and often making him feel the urge to shoot in the street. However, Odako, who is naturally shy and introverted, has the unique skill of taking pictures with one hand. She didn't dare to aim at the beautiful woman and raise her camera in the street, for fear of being scolded by the beautiful woman and making passers-by laugh. Once, under my urging for several days, I finally got up the courage to take my camera to the street, but in the face of an endless stream of beautiful women, his camera seemed to be filled with lead and could not be lifted. As a result, I wandered around the street for several hours, and only took a picture of the road, on which I could hardly see a vague woman's heel. The next day, when he reported the results to me with a wry smile, I almost fell to the ground laughing.

Later, ODA went to participate in several street shooting and outing activities organized by photographers. But he doesn't like that twenty or thirty people are crowded into a pile, and those so-called models who spend money to buy them are crazy to press the shutter and say that everything is crazy, and even the slightest inspiration and creativity are not felt.

A few days ago, ODA suddenly had a good idea. He called and said he wanted to invite me to play street shooting, but instead of filming me, he asked me to be his bait (that is, a fake model, covering for photographers and distracting others). First, I think it's novel. Second, learning to surf the Internet and play blogs on weekdays often troubles Oda. This is also a reward for others, so I readily agreed.

I made an appointment to shoot in the street on Sunday afternoon, so I went to Oda's house first. It was still early, so we had a chat. Speaking of street shooting, he was really excited and showed me a lot of street shooting photos he collected from the internet and magazine pictorial. While tasting Oda's ice cream and coffee, we talked about the fun of street shooting. ...

Fun and Skills of Street Shooting Fashion Beauty (Photos)

First of all, the photo taken in the street is the natural state of the person being photographed, and most people don't know that they have been photographed. Although the expressions of the characters are different, they are all true and natural, or focused, or lazy, or complacent, or hurried ... These expressions, which need to be performed by well-trained professional models in front of the camera, can be seen everywhere in street shooting and have a natural and true display. Compared with the photo of grinning at the camera and saying "eggplant" with a V-shaped hand, street shooting is much more lively and interesting. The beauty of street shooting is not only beautiful, but also makes people feel really close.

Fun and Skills of Street Shooting Fashion Beauty (Photos)

Second, the content of street shooting is rich and colorful. Because we are not staring at one person, but catching all kinds of people who attract photographers' attention anytime and anywhere, which is more varied than inviting a few fixed models. No matter how beautiful the model is, dozens and hundreds of photos are put together, and everyone is tired of aesthetics. Although the success rate of street photography is low (but it is hardly limited by the number of digital cameras), many people are photographed, and all the bad ones are deleted. The rest are almost all fine products that can be published in magazines, and there are often unexpected surprises.

Fun and Skills of Street Shooting Fashion Beauty (Photos)

Third, street shooting tests the basic skills of photographers. First of all, we should have keen observation and capture the subject in the busy street. Once the object is locked, the opportunity is often only a few seconds, fleeting. Search, lock, site selection, framing, zooming and shooting must be done in one go. In addition to focusing with the help of automatic function, other steps are challenges to the basic skills of photography. And sometimes in order to pursue more perfect picture effect, photographers have to focus in a semi-automatic or even full manual way, which requires higher light estimation and operation.

Fun and Skills of Street Shooting Fashion Beauty (Photos)

Finally, it is self-evident that street shooting has psychological requirements for photographers. Unless you are a professional photographer or journalist, it is a psychological challenge for ordinary people to point your camera at a complete stranger in public, but you can't make the subject feel uneasy or even let him know, and you have to finish shooting at the same time. Oda just can't get through this. Although telephoto lens helps to keep photographers at an undetected distance, it also has many limitations.

Fun and Skills of Street Shooting Fashion Beauty (Photos)

In short, the fun of street shooting comes from its technical and psychological challenges to photographers. Oda is shy and introverted, but she is also a person who likes to challenge herself. At Oda's home, we exchanged the skills of how to cooperate with each other and rehearse and cooperate repeatedly. Around four o'clock, we set out to see when the sun reaches the best angle.

Fun and Skills of Street Shooting Fashion Beauty (Photos)

Oda uses a Sony SLR digital camera with a zoom lens of 38 ~ 145 mm, auto focus, semi-automatic with full automatic, shutter priority, aperture priority, and automatic continuous shooting with pure manual function, six shots per second. The whole street shooting process is exciting and very interesting. We found that we are the most tacit partners. We walked the streets, kept shooting, kept delivering pies, and even neglected dinner. Finally, we got a bumper harvest and returned home with a full load.

Fun and Skills of Street Shooting Fashion Beauty (Photos)

Let's talk about several skills of our cooperation:

First, the time difference. This method is very effective for approaching and capturing relatively static (standing or sitting) objects within the range of 3 to 7 meters, and it is unlikely that such a close distance will not be detected (unless the back is patted). The method is that I first stand between the subject and Oda and try to get close to the subject. When Oda finished filming, I said "OK" and walked away sideways (someone seemed to take a picture of me), and then he pressed the shutter.

Second, differences in positions. This method is suitable for snapshots with medium distance (5 meters away). I'm still standing between the subject and Oda, but a little to the side, Oda pulls me out of the viewfinder with a medium telephoto lens and shoots directly at the subject (people don't know I'm not in the camera without looking at the viewfinder).

Third, wait for the rabbit. This method is used to catch people coming head-on, front or side. In the past, ODA didn't dare to lift the camera at all. Now all he has to do is aim the camera at a point where the subject will pass. I'll stand on the edge of that point and pretend to be "funny", let the subject pass first, and Oda will shoot when the subject passes that point, and then I'll stand at that point and pretend.

Fourth, better late than never. Sometimes the opportunity to take a snapshot is fleeting. Oda couldn't wait for me to take the cover, so she picked up the camera first. Sometimes, the subjects will notice and show puzzled eyes. At this time, I hurried behind the subject and rushed to Oda and said, "Hey, it seems to be blocked. Let's take another picture. "

There are some other tricks on the cover, but the main one is the one mentioned above, which is flexible and changeable. Oda's courage increased that day, and our cooperation became more tacit.