Techniques of shooting rain scenes

On rainy days, due to the lack of direct sunlight, the average brightness of the ground scenery is low, which is gloomy and unknown. At the same time, the gap between the sky and the ground is too big. Many friends who try to take pictures on rainy days for the first time complain that they can't always take good pictures. Here is a brief introduction to the precautions for shooting in rainy days.

1. Generally speaking, when shooting in rainy days, it is not appropriate to choose a large area of bright sky as the background, but mostly use darker objects as the background, such as green trees, mountains and faintly visible buildings. This dark background is not only conducive to the main body with bright colors, but also can set off bright rain.

Second, rainy weather is suitable for shooting simple shots with obvious outline lines, large fluctuations and large brightness intervals. For those messy and trivial scenes, it is not appropriate to show them in rainy days.

Thirdly, the brightness contrast between rainy scenes is weak and small. If you need to expand the brightness range between scenes when shooting, you can usually adopt the following methods:

1, when choosing scenes, try to choose those scenes with changing or rich color as the shooting object, and use the brightness of the scene itself or the contrast of colors to expand the brightness range of the scene, so that the brightness in the picture is rich in layers.

2. If conditions permit, you can also artificially match the subject with reasonable light and shade according to the needs of creation to form a moderate contrast. For example, we want to shoot a drizzly street scene. The buildings on both sides of the street are dark, and the ground is wet and dark. There is no obvious contrast in the whole scene, and the picture will be gloomy. If you add two brightly colored umbrellas to this scene, it will form a bright color contrast.

Fourth, when shooting rain scenes, there are various ways of expression. When shooting, you can make a foreground through the door, window and car glass where the rain flows, resulting in a hazy and almost blurred picture effect. Sometimes, for creative needs, a thin layer of vaseline or other oily things will be coated on the foreground glass when shooting, so that water droplets can easily hang on the glass and enhance the effect of rainy days. In addition, we can use the mirror reflection of stagnant water or the reflection formed in the water to compose the picture and increase the level of the picture.

5. When shooting in rainy days, the picture is prone to overexposure, because photographers often ignore that there are many blue-purple components in scattered light that are insensitive to human eyes, and black-and-white and color films are sensitive to these light, so they often cause overexposure. The light changes greatly in rainy days. On cloudy days, the brightness of rain in Mao Mao is high, and that of heavy rain on cloudy days is low, but there is little difference in brightness between scenes. If the picture is overexposed, there will be fewer tone levels and more fog, which is not conducive to the performance of the scenery in the rain.

Six, how to accurately control the exposure of the picture in rainy days is very important, which determines the success or failure of the picture. Therefore, when shooting a rainy scene, you can't estimate the exposure only by experience. It is best to measure the brightness of the scene at any time by photometric tools, and determine the appropriate exposure according to the measured light value and creative intention.

Seven, in general, when shooting a far panoramic picture, if the brightness distribution of the scene is relatively uniform, the exposure is determined by the average brightness value of the scene; If the brightness distribution of the scene is uneven, then the exposure should be determined by the surface brightness of the subject in the picture. When shooting a close-up picture with people moving, the exposure is usually determined by the brightness value of the face.