How to take pictures on Valentine's Day? Introduction to Japanese photography skills

How to take a good photo on Valentine's Day and how to take a particularly good selfie?

The answer is only one sentence: take the person you love to travel together.

Xiao Mo and a monkey started our honeymoon trip to Japan. From then on, we started taking selfies with tripods during their trip, so we went through Kansai, Kanto, Okinawa and Hokkaido and experienced the four seasons in the rainbow country.

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Kanto-Hakone Town-Pinghe torii

Hokkaido Dengdeng Hell Valley

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Kanto Tokyo Ueno Park

How to take selfies?

The shooting process of all our selfies is roughly like this:

1. Take a picture first.

2. Set up a tripod ~ Let a person stand in the right position and focus manually. Then set the camera's time-lapse photography mode (that is, the function of automatically taking pictures every n seconds). If the camera doesn't have this function, you can buy a cable releaser with time-lapse photography function.

Then run to the planned location.

Sometimes it runs far!

If you want to ask if you are tired, just look at me standing outside 7- 1 1 and eating a cup of noodles on a cold rainy day in Hakone-CHO. ...

How to take selfies? Especially beautiful?

Frankly speaking, we think it has been filmed for a year. Nice photos? It has nothing to do with camera equipment and photography technology. Half of the photos above are from an entry-level micro-camera, and the lens is the default lens. We didn't even have time to understand the aperture shutter when we took half the photos, so we just took a camera and tripod and started shooting directly in automatic mode.

So here's the question. Nice photos? What does it have to do with?

We think this has something to do with. Scenery? About, and? Wear, beautiful? About, and? Late color matching? Related. The so-called five points to see the scenery, two points to dress up, and three points to come later. Heaven and earth conscience, at least these three points can help everyone quickly. Every photo posted in front of us has a note about the shooting location, just like we go to step on the spot in advance for our next trip.

Tomozawa-Fuji Rock Festival 20 15 after the month

Dry goods x q&a

Travel category

Q: How much is the travel fee?

A: Although the photo spans one year, we went on leave for three times, each time for less than two weeks, with a per capita income of a little over 10,000. It adds up to about 60 thousand. In fact, all our travel expenses came from the red envelopes of classmates and friends at the wedding a year ago ~ of course, these happy money will be paid back sooner or later, so consider it an overdraft in advance. Thank you!

Guandong Tokyo Tokyo Tower

Q: Language barriers. Can't I travel freely without Japanese?

A: According to personal experience, yes, provided that you can speak at least basic English. Our Japanese level is basically negative, and we only know "thank you" and "sorry", but these two sentences are used very frequently and easily. Other conversations basically rely on simple English. Another convenient place for Japanese tourism is that the station names are basically traditional Chinese characters, which are easy to identify.

Photography class

Q: How can you hide the wireless shutter so well?

A: Actually, there is no wireless shutter. In other words, these photos span a year, and I tried various ways to control the camera: 1. At first, the camera was remotely controlled by the infrared remote controller on the mobile phone; 2. Later, it was switched to wired release, and time-lapse photography was set (for example, one shot every five seconds). 3. Finally, I suddenly found that my camera has its own time-lapse photography function, and I don't even need to release the cable. ...

Q: How to compose music by focusing?

A: Let one of them stand in a suitable position and wait, and the other person will adjust the camera focus (it must be manually focused). If you want to make it clear to two people, the easiest way is for them to stand left and right facing the camera. In fact, most of our photos are in this form.

Xiangnan-Kamakura-Bagan Palace

Q: What is the equipment model?

A: Camera: Sony micro-single NEX-5N with ferrule (first half), Nikon D750 with Longteng 24-70 (second half), tripod: Sirui T 1205X.

Q: Aren't you afraid of losing the camera stand so far away?

A: I am very scared, so I am going to switch back to micro-single shooting when I take a selfie in the future.

Q: Post-software and programs?

A: First of all, all the pictures are post-processed. Secondly, for a large number of pictures taken during the trip, I will first use Lightroom on my computer to screen, archive and post-color. Photoshop is only used when pictures need complex processing, such as removing passers-by. Due to the limited personal time, intensive training is not allowed, so our own travel photos are mainly post-toning.

Q: What if someone picks up your camera and runs away?

A: Shout: Leave the SD card!

unsung heroes

The first royal photographer to take pictures appeared on the scene! Especially because it was an aluminum tripod, we broke our leg on the first trip. ...

Active self-timer tripod, so far, hard work!