How to control the lighting in outdoor wedding photography

Outdoor lighting, you can use flash or natural light. Here is mainly about the situation of natural light. There are few photographers who shoot the location completely by suppressing natural light with a flash, and even fewer photographers shoot well. Generally, on the exterior, much sunlight is side light (backlight or side backlight), that is, the sun is behind the head and the front is filled with reflector or flash. This wedding photo has a strong sense of three-dimensional and space, and the facial light is soft. Generally, the sun shines directly on the face, and it is easy to overflow highlights on the face (some muscles on the face are pure white without details), or the contrast between light and shade is too large, and the effect is not good. If the light is soft before 9 am or after 4 pm, the front light (that is, the sun is in front of or in front of the subject) can also take good photos. If it is cloudy, there must be fill light, use a reflector or flash to fill the light, otherwise the face will be as dull and gray as mildew. If you shoot in the sunny shade, you'd better not have light spots between leaves on your face, otherwise your face will be black and white, dirty and ugly.

2. Background.

Choosing a good environment is the key to shooting a good location, and the key to the environment is the choice of background. If you don't pick the environment, why go to the location? Therefore, the beautiful environment, especially the background, is half the success of the location. The wedding photography on location with changeable style. When shooting wedding photos on location, the style of each photo should be clearly distinguished, and the background content cannot be repeated all the time. Remember not to take unchanged or unremarkable location wedding photos. First, if conditions permit, there is a foreground as much as possible (foreground refers to the flowers or scenery between the subject and the camera, which generally plays a role in setting off the picture in front of the camera). Second, the lines of the background should be harmonious and unified, not too messy. Messiness can be divided into color clutter and line clutter. Even if there are curved strips, they should be soft. If it is a forest, try to choose the same tree and avoid the background with different crown heights, long branches and completely different crown colors. Third, the background content should be rich, concise and atmospheric. Too monotonous without characteristics will not look good. Fourth, try not to have modern buildings (except artistic style buildings) in the natural background, otherwise it is neither fish nor fowl. Fifth, try to avoid a single horizontal line in the background, such as a wire, a horizontal road, a horizontal step and so on. If there are multiple horizontal lines, the rhythm of the picture is another matter.

3. exposure.

Exposure is divided into accurate exposure and correct exposure. Accurate exposure means that the bright place is bright, the dark place is dark, the bright place should not overflow with highlights (white without details), and the dark place is not dead black (nothing can be seen). Correct exposure refers to creative shooting when shooting high-profile or low-key photography. This paper mainly talks about accurate exposure. As a customer of wedding photography, how to judge whether it is overexposed? Take the wedding dress as an example. Do you think the wedding dress is all white, like a whiteboard, without the details of the fabric pattern? Face, whether there is one, is also white without any details. If there is, it is overexposed and underexposed, which means that the place that should be bright is not illuminated, such as the color of pants is not clear, or the details of clothes are dark, or a part of the picture is dark and nothing can be seen. Generally speaking, if wedding photos are not well controlled, there is a greater possibility of overexposure.