What are the simple capture and recording skills of documentary photography?

Because the travel time is not enough, it is impossible to record a city or a country in all directions. In order to

What are the simple capture and recording skills of documentary photography?

Because the travel time is not enough, it is impossible to record a city or a country in all directions. In order to avoid the picture being too vague or too conceptual, we should know the city before shooting, choose a representative thing-barefoot to record, and repeat this theme in the photo, which will eventually play the role of humanistic documentary. Let me take you to enjoy it.

Skills of recording the reasons of barefoot in local people;

1. Poverty: Sri Lanka suffered from war in the last century. Due to geographical environment, religious beliefs and other reasons, the country developed slowly and was not rich. The cheapest pair of flip-flops in the local area is 100 rupees, which is about RMB 6 yuan, but many people still can't afford it, or these people think that eating a meal with 100 rupees is more important than buying a pair of shoes.

2. Religious belief: Sri Lanka is a country where many religions coexist. Anyone who enters places related to religion is required to take off his shoes, including the remains of ancient kingdoms. There are many small Buddha statues on the roadside, some of which are hung on the wall, and they worship Buddha barefoot every time they pass by.

3. Living habits caused by environmental reasons: Sri Lanka is close to the equator. In the Indian Ocean, the sun is shining all year round, the climate is humid and the vegetation is rich. They have been used to walking barefoot on the ground since childhood. Except for Colombo, the largest city, which has more than four floors, all other places have independent three floors. The indoor humidity there is generally painted cement floor, and the tile floor is in good condition. They are used to taking off their shoes as soon as they enter the room, maintaining the most primitive state, which is very comfortable and natural.

Recording skills, shooting skills, post-production

1, don't be too extreme unless you deliberately distort the picture.

This time I used Canon's 5D2, and the lens was Canon's 24-70/2.8,17-35/2.8,50/1.4 * *, which was not used much.

17-35/2.8,50/1.4 is a personal habit, especially the width of17 and the large aperture of1.4. In fact, it is very important to use the lens, but it is often overlooked that in the case of poor control, try not to use the two extreme focal lengths of the lens, especially the wide-angle lens, pay more attention to composition and choice of things to weaken the wide-angle distorted vision, unless you deliberately distort things.

2, distracting killer skills: smile at others.

* * *1* * and so on: this picture has three related points, flowers, Buddha statues and reflections. The flowers have been selected, and the Buddha statue is reflected in front of us, waiting for a passer-by. I waited for a long time, because although pedestrians kept passing by, in order to make the flowers and skirts echo in color, people wearing dark skirts or pants all the way were not suitable. Finally, I didn't consciously capture the photo until a man wore a rose skirt. Moreover, after shooting, in order to highlight three important information points, we must reduce the saturation of the orange stairs in the picture, and at the same time do some dark corner processing on the photo to concentrate our vision.

***2*** Snapshot: All kinds of feet are basically captured, but there are many ways to capture them. Capturing them does not mean shooting casually. Because the photos taken against the feet are special, the subjects will not understand and feel uncomfortable, which also causes the limitations of this group of films in perspective. Thanks to the super wide angle of 17, I was able to take a snapshot close to them.

In addition, because it is inconvenient to shoot with your head down, you might as well try blind shot, but you should pay attention to the picture in your mind, set the camera parameters and smile at others. Haha, it's called distraction.

3. It's all feet and shoes. It is so boring.

The combination of pictures is purely for display. Considering that looking at feet and shoes is a bit boring, I thought of this combination form to express it. Each picture is based on the close-up of the foot, emphasizing the theme, and then according to the composition, vertical or horizontal composition, color tone, same color or complementary color and content of each foot, choose landscape pictures to match. In the later stage, it is relatively simple. Set the size of the big picture and the small picture in PS and put them together. It's convenient and quick, so try it.

Recording skills, shooting actual combat.

1. Don't point the gun at him.

The photo was taken with Lu 75MM3.5T because this camera is a dual-lens reflex camera, unlike a SLR, not pointing a gun at him can reduce the resistance of the subject. Coupled with goodwill and sincere communication, they can shoot in a relatively natural state, so the photos are closer to the real record itself.