Creative photography shooting skills

Looking for creativity in chaos. Creativity is full of chaos. The world of photography is always full of fun. Here are my creative photography skills for your reference!

Creative photography skills 1: various creative methods

1. Turn your camera.

Under normal circumstances, the camera should be taken well to ensure that the exposure will not blur the picture due to camera vibration, but in fact, rotating the camera in a planned way can abstract the picture and increase the artistic color, especially when shooting with different light sources or at night. The trick is to slow down your shutter so that you have enough time to catch light. Horizontal movement and rotation are also common techniques in shooting.

2. Adjust the focal length when shooting (commonly known as "pop-up")

Adjusting the focal length when shooting (commonly known as "pop-up") is actually a simple way to change the focal length when the camera releases the shutter. The picture will be full of motion, but it is only suitable for zoom lenses.

3. Creative focus

Who says the focus must be on the subject? In fact, sometimes turning the camera to manual focus and deliberately letting the subject deviate from the focus can make it feel like an oil painting.

Shoot from a lower place

Try to shoot at an ultra-low angle to make the subject feel different from the normal naked eye. If you add a wide-angle lens, you can highlight the main body and show exaggerated effects.

5. Deliberately expose your photos.

General photos also require "correct" exposure, which will not make photos overexposed or underexposed, but in fact, sometimes deliberately overexposed photos can also express a "science fiction" effect.

6. Flash with slow synchronous shutter

When shooting portraits at night, you can use the slow synchronous shutter to absorb more live light and use the flash to "solidify" the subject. If you add the "pop-up" technology mentioned in Tip 2, you can take creative photos.

Shoot from a height

Compared with the low shot in skill 4, we can also capture the picture from a certain angle, that is, shooting from high altitude. In addition to shooting from the plane, we can actually achieve this effect by using tripod and long cable release or selfie function. It is recommended to use a wide-angle or even a fisheye lens, which will make the photos more interesting.

8. Multiple exposure

Multiple exposure refers to taking multiple photos on the same negative. You can use one normal focus and another out of focus to add artistic color to a photo, or make a person appear in the phase many times like a doppelganger. However, it should be noted that some entry-level cameras do not include the function of multiple exposures, so you need to rely on Photoshop's "layer" technology.

9. Increase noise

When the ISO value increases, although the shutter can be made faster, the noise will also increase relatively, making the photo appear uneven. However, if the noise is deliberately increased and the appropriate environmental atmosphere is matched, the photos will immediately bring nostalgic and cinematic feelings and add flavor to ordinary photos.

10. Custom white balance

The correct white balance can certainly make the photos accurately show the light color of the environment at that time, but if we deliberately change the setting of white balance, it may bring out another special atmosphere and effect! The picture above shows automatic white balance on the left and manual white balance on the right. The picture on the right can bring a dark and melancholy feeling.

Creative photography tip 2: special shutter

Ultra-high speed shutter instantly cures.

Novices usually don't pay much attention to the shutter speed used in shooting, so when shooting high-speed moving objects, the subject is often blurred, which hurts the fun and confidence of shooting! In fact, as long as you use the ultra-high-speed shutter, you can record water droplets, games and other moments!

Key skills:

Shutter speed reaches 1/500s, 1/2000s or even 1/4000s.

Suitable for shooting in full light or sunshine.

If necessary, you can improve ISO and enlarge the aperture (for example, use a large aperture of f/2.8).

Adopt ultra-high speed shutter solidification action.

For normal photos, it is not a good result that the slow shutter makes the hand shake and affects the clarity of the photos (refer to the article "Safe shutter"), but if we use the slow shutter to blur the photos in a planned way, we can create abstract and beautiful works.

Key skills:

If it is hand-held, the shutter should not be too slow. You can try the effect in115s and 1/20s.

If the subject moves (for example, shooting flowers in windy conditions), the shutter can be faster than mentioned above to keep the blur within a controllable range.

It can enlarge the subject, fill the picture and be more poetic.

According to the feeling, the picture can be a simple attempt at first, without too many colors to avoid excessive confusion.

Turning the camera when using a slow shutter will produce interesting effects.

Three-slow shutter captures mysterious scenes invisible to the naked eye.

Looking at the dark place with the naked eye at night may have no special feeling, and it has always been dark. But if you use a camera, slow down the shutter and enlarge the aperture, you can often capture the light invisible to the naked eye and shoot a series of magical scenes! Be sure to try!

Key skills:

When shooting with a slow shutter, a tripod must be used to stabilize the camera.

Learn the skills of focusing in the dark.

White balance can make the colors of photos more interesting.

It is recommended to release the cable.

Sometimes light that is invisible to the naked eye does not mean that the camera is invisible. Try to slow down the shutter!

Four slow shutter shots.

Do you know how to take pictures of people in crowded streets? The secret is to use a slow shutter! Although you may not be able to "flow" all the roles, learning this skill can be applied to more places!

Key skills:

The camera must be fixed with a tripod.

The shutter can start from 10 second and slow down to several minutes or more.

Small aperture (such as f/ 16) and low ISO make the shutter slow.

Shooting during the day is more interesting.

If necessary, you can also shoot with a high-magnification ND filter (for example, the ND filter with 10 reduced).