Shoot different lotus flowers with multiple exposures.

Lead: Lotus is a symbol of muddy but not dirty in everyone's mind, and it has also become the object that photographers want to shoot. So how do you shoot a good lotus? Below I will teach you how to shoot different lotus flowers through multiple exposures.

Use multiple exposures to shoot different lotus flowers. Before I studied photography, my eyes were full of all kinds of lotus works. From the first stunning to the last numbness, to be honest, there are not many lotus flowers that can make my eyes shine. However, lotus flowers only have one season. In the lotus season, no photographer can resist taking pictures of lotus flowers. Ever since 5D3, I've been planning to shoot a group of lotus flowers with multiple exposures, so I took a 500-focus turn-back shot, which made the lotus flowers burn this season.

I. Equipment preparation

SLR camera with multiple exposure function, folding lens, stable tripod, cable release.

Second, the shooting time

In the early morning or evening, when the sun is just rising or near sunset, you can use a lotus pond with lotus flowers. There must be light, which requires the reflection of sunlight on the water. At this time, the light is directional and the color temperature is ideal, which is suitable for shooting.

Third, shooting skills.

(A) About the lens

The folding lens is usually a manual lens, and the telephoto focusing at 500 ends is particularly accurate. It is recommended to use the camera real-time picture to focus manually.

(2) Multiple exposures of the camera

Take my Canon 5D3 as an example. First, turn on the multiple exposure function of the camera. There are four options for multiple exposure control: addition, average and bright and dark. ? Addition? Simply put, it is overlapping multiple images. Because there is no exposure control, the synthesized photo is brighter than before. ? General? It is to control the brightness of photos when synthesizing, automatically compensate the negative exposure for the number of photos taken by multiple exposures, and adjust the synthesized photos to the appropriate exposure. ? Bright? After comparing the basic image with the image synthesized on it, only bright pixels are synthesized. ? Darkness? With what? Bright? On the contrary, after comparing the base image with the image synthesized on it, only darker pixels are synthesized.

What did I use in this movie? General? Control the options, and then appropriately enhance the brightness through manual negative compensation. As for addition, bright and dark mode, you can try more according to your own needs.

(3) Specific shooting

500mm folding lens, constant aperture 6.3, ok! Direct AV file, parameters to the camera, let's just have a look and synthesize it. I took a second exposure to shoot this group of lotus flowers. Before shooting, I first chose the main body of two shots, namely the lotus flower and the small circle unique to Jiao Wai.

Make a composition in your mind first, mainly to determine the position and space of the lotus and Jiao Wai circle. The main requirement of lotus is clarity, without too much occlusion, and it is completed by using the real-time shooting function of the camera; Turning back to Jiao Wai's small circle, we can look for the refraction of sunlight on the water surface, and we can intuitively see the adjustment state of the focus on the real-time screen. There is no need to focus, because the small circle will become very small and dazzling after focusing, and the size of the small circle is determined according to your own preferences. Then manually negative compensation, so that the small circle picture as the background is slightly darker than the main picture of the lotus, in order to better reflect the main body of the lotus.

Just say it, okay General? The mode camera will automatically make negative compensation, but I found that the brightness of the background is basically not much different from that of the lotus, so I still adopted appropriate manual negative compensation for the background. As for who shoots the lotus and the small circle first, this is ok, but the time interval between the two shots should not be too long, and it will fail if it takes a long time.

Fourth, about the later period.

5D3 has multiple exposure function, and the film can be in RAW format, which provides more adjustment space for later stage. Because we choose to shoot in the morning and evening with good light, the original film has a strong sense of light and shadow and rich colors. My film group just made some basic adjustments on LR.

In order to create that kind of quiet atmosphere, reduce the color temperature of the dot appropriately to make the picture feel a little blue; Reduce highlights, so that those small gold rings in Jiao Wai don't look dazzling; Then reduce the saturation, reduce the overall saturation, and then fine-tune the specific color on each piece to adjust it to the feeling you want; Finally, sharpening, noise reduction and output.

The shooting method mentioned in this tutorial is to use the function of multiple exposures in the camera to directly image once, without the need for computer post-synthesis. The operation process is also very simple, and you can fully master it after trying once or twice. Of course, this is just technology, and thinking and creativity are the most important things when shooting.