How to take close-up photos?

Photographic techniques for shooting close-ups are as follows:

Try to highlight the theme and shoot it well.

The simplest method of local close-up is to aim the lens directly at the subject, so that readers can see the key points that the photographer wants to express at a glance.

This technique is common in food, flowers, ecology, and even portrait or commercial photography. Its characteristic is to catch people's eyes with eye-catching subjects. However, because it is a direct shooting focus, you should consider the composition before pressing the shutter.

This seemingly simple shooting method actually requires the photographer to think carefully about the arrangement of elements in the picture, and often a tiny composition can bring completely different effects. Don't worry too much if you can't get the ideal composition due to the limitation of equipment or site environment. After that, it can be cut or assisted by other methods (such as adding dark corner effect) to achieve the ideal effect.

Photographic skills of shooting close-ups II. Try to be customer-oriented.

The second method is to focus on the parts related to the subject, such as clapping hands, feet or expressions, rather than taking full-length or half-length photos of the characters. This kind of shooting can focus on customers and reshape the focus of the image.

In many cases, capturing local pictures related to the subject will be more story-telling than shooting the whole picture directly, and it will also reserve more imagination space for readers. In this way, the information of the picture is enlarged.

If we can give up the idea of shooting a panoramic view through local expression and let the original green leaves become the center of gravity of the image, we can not only shoot a successful local work, but also exercise ourselves to break through the thinking frame, cultivate a sharper photographic eye and create a more exciting image.

Photographic skills of shooting close-ups III. Create layers using depth of field.

Depth of field has always been an indispensable element in optical applications, especially for photography. As we all know, the depth of field is determined by the aperture size, lens focal length and object distance (the distance between the camera and the subject).

Generally speaking, the larger the aperture (the smaller the F value), the longer the focal length of the lens, the closer the object distance, the shallower the depth of field and the longer the depth of field. Therefore, as long as you understand the concept of depth of field, you can use it in local close-ups to make the appropriate depth of field show a sense of space and distance.

According to the rule of thumb, using the equivalent lens focal length of 24-35mm, plus the aperture value of not less than f/2.8, shooting as close as possible to the subject will make the image more spatial;

If you use a medium-long focal length equivalent to more than 50mm and shoot with a large aperture, you can shoot a unique compressed image. Although they can also achieve the purpose of blurring the background, the effect and viewing experience are completely different. There is no question of right or wrong. It all depends on what kind of image effect the photographer wants to present.

Instead of sticking to the rules, learn how to make good use of the equipment at hand and turn your observations and ideas into real images.

Of course, the bigger the aperture, the better In fact, we should observe the corresponding relationship between the background and the subject, and then decide whether to enlarge or narrow the aperture to blur or clearly present the background and the subject. Therefore, when looking for local close-up themes, we should also think about the final overall composition of the picture, use the depth of field flexibly and create a sense of hierarchy.

Photographic skills of shooting close-ups iv. Aesthetic feeling of blank space

Although it has been said before that focusing the lens directly on the subject is the simplest local close-up shooting method, unless the subject itself has attractive characteristics, it is easy for the composition to make the work unrecognizable and become a sugary photo that is easily forgotten.

Therefore, if you want to make a simple and clear local work, you might as well leave as much blank in the composition as possible, so that the picture is not so full, which can not only give readers a chance to breathe, but also create empty inspiration.