Advanced skills of shooting still life

How to shoot a nice still life? In still life photography, we need to master the changing factors such as light, background and angle. Here are the still life shooting techniques I searched for you. Let's have a look.

First, the correct use of background

Choosing a good background plays a very important role in creating a successful work. For still life shooting, it is best to choose a simple and beautiful background, which will not have a great impact on your subject. Plain wall is a good choice.

Second, the choice of theme.

For the choice of subject matter, what kind of photos to take depends entirely on your own interests. But don't think that you must shoot fruits or flowers like others, and you can choose your subjects openly. For example, jewelry and colored stones, which are popular in the market now, are common decorations. They are smaller and have many styles. It is also a good choice to start with them ~

Third, composition

For still life shooting, there is no limit to the number of theme elements. So composition is particularly important. Before shooting, we should fully consider how to make our work achieve the best combination of various elements, which can not only make the picture look full, but also grasp the visual focus of the audience and not make the picture look messy. Below, the author will introduce several commonly used composition techniques for still life shooting.

1. Three-point synthesis method

Three-point composition is the most basic and safest composition method in photography. Divide the top, bottom, left and right of the picture into three equal parts, and their four bisectors intersect into four points, which is called the interesting center point, which is the best place to arrange works.

2. Dispersed composition

For shooting non-single objects, scattered point composition is the most commonly used composition method in still life photography. Random composition is a kind of free and loose composition structure, covering the whole picture without deliberately highlighting an object. Organize the pictures according to density or hue, so that the chaotic pictures are placed in order. This way of composition can give full play to the photographer's creative space, but friends have to work hard to make the picture look too messy.

3. Diagonal composition

Diagonal composition is a composition with the greatest visual impact and the strongest sense of movement. If you choose it properly, the effect will be good.

4. Triangle composition

Triangular composition is usually a triangular whole composed of three themes with the same nature. Because the three sides of a triangle are composed of straight lines in different directions, different straight lines form different forms of triangles, and different trends and changes will bring different feelings to people.

5. Contrast composition

Contrast is a form of composition, and the polarization of contrast is widely used in photography, such as color contrast, texture contrast, size contrast, dark contrast and so on. But this composition method is also the most difficult to deal with, and most of the works that can successfully use comparative composition are extraordinary. Friends who have a certain photography foundation may wish to try more.