Photography School: How to Capture Real Examples

Some people can completely relax by posing in front of the camera, but most people are always nervous when facing the camera, always making false expressions and unnatural gestures to hide themselves. Snapshot technology is to avoid the above problems by shooting when people don't find the camera. People at this time can often capture their truest side. If you use this technique correctly, you will get attractive photos. There is no far-fetched and pretentious gesture, no forced smile, only the real vitality and humor of people captured by photographers. Relatives and friends at home will like the photos you took for them at parties and special occasions. Moreover, because the capture method requires you not to be noticed by the subject, you can also use this method to capture the joys and sorrows of street people's lives. Because people are busy with their work in daily life, they don't notice that the photographer who is staring like an eagle is preparing to take pictures. Required equipment camera: SLR digital camera is an ideal choice for taking snapshots, because it has fast response, powerful function and simple operation, and it also allows you to replace a series of lenses and accessories. The high-end portable digital camera with manual function is a sharp weapon for experts to capture photos, especially suitable for "street sweeping" enthusiasts. Lens: telephoto lens is widely used in snapshots because it can draw the subject closer at a long distance and make it fill the whole picture without being found. The depth of field of a telephoto lens will be very small under a large aperture ―― for example, f/4, f/5.6―― which can blur the background of the photo taken, thus highlighting the subject. A 200mm telephoto lens or a 70~200mm zoom lens is enough for most shooting environments. Wide-angle lenses are also very useful for shooting close-ups in crowded environments. Because the viewing angle of a 28mm or 24mm lens is so wide, it is impossible for your subjects to realize that they have been photographed even if they see your camera pointing in their direction. Sensitivity setting: In most outdoor shooting environments, ISO 100 is enough, which allows you to use a higher speed shutter when using a larger aperture. When shooting indoors or outdoors in dark light, we can appropriately increase the sensitivity to obtain a higher shutter speed, such as ISO400, ISO800 or higher. It is gratifying that the high sensitivity performance of the new SLR digital camera is getting better and better. How to achieve the shooting location anywhere. When you find people doing things outdoors, taking part in activities or enjoying their own lives, you can find plenty of shooting opportunities to take interesting photos. Towns and city streets are ideal shooting locations. The crowded and noisy life provides endless shooting opportunities: for example, the entertainment of mothers and children, the performances of street performers, people's quarrels, paving workers and so on. Street performers provide an ideal object for snap shots ―― not only because they are used to the camera facing them, but also because they don't care about it. This photo was taken in Covent Garden in London. This is a gathering place for other street performers and artists, and it also provides photographers with opportunities to shoot martial arts. Looking forward to the coming situation, the photographer waited until the child was ready to beat the adults in front of him with rolled-up paper, and then used the camera to freeze the vivid expressions of the two at this moment. Markets and car trading places are also ideal objects for photographers to take snapshots. There are many places to hide, and most people are busy with their own affairs, so you won't be found by others. This also applies to street parties, festivals, important national activities and carnivals. Holidays are also a very good time to shoot. When people take off their clothes, they also let go of their depression, so the beach is an excellent perennial destination for snapshots. The old people dozed off on the couch, and the young couple warmly hugged and kissed their children at sea. The scenery of burying their father on the beach was so beautiful that it was a good opportunity to take pictures. The key to focusing on successful shooting is agility and quick adjustment. The opportunity is fleeting. You need to learn to concentrate on observing the subject, predict the future development, wait for the best opportunity, and then press the shutter without hesitation to freeze this moment. (This picture is collected from the Internet) To do this, you must learn to use the camera intuitively. When you are taking a picture, if you are still wondering whether the exposure setting is correct or whether the button or dial is set incorrectly, then you will definitely not take a good picture. So you need to learn to use the camera in a few seconds. That is to say, when you pass an interesting subject, it only takes 1~2s from the time you raise the camera to adjust the focal length to take the next photo, so that others will not find you. The best way is to set your camera to automatic exposure mode. This program is always the fastest, but using aperture priority mode allows you to control the depth of field. Usually, the technology used in snapshots is to use a large aperture-for example, f/4 or f/5-which can blur the background and highlight the subject, but this requires you to focus accurately. If you use an autofocus SLR, as long as you put the subject in the AF target area of the viewfinder, there will be no problem with accurate focusing. If the camera you use doesn't have autofocus function, you need to practice the ability of focusing quickly and accurately until you have confidence in it; Or you need to estimate the subject, so that you can adjust the focus of the subject as far as possible in advance. Finally, the secret of successful snapshot is that you should learn to blend in with the surrounding environment. So avoid wearing bright and eye-catching clothes and don't put your camera in a special camera bag. In fact, if you only bring a camera and lens, you don't need a camera bag at all. To take a successful snapshot, your subject doesn't have to face the camera. The two elderly women walking hand in hand in the street in this photo formed a very touching scene, so the photographer waited until they passed by before holding up the camera and taking this photo. The trick is to keep your camera with you at all times, so that you won't miss any shooting opportunities. Try not to attract attention, thus reducing the chance of being discovered by others. When you are caught, face your partner and politely explain what you are doing and why you are doing it. You know, not everyone likes being photographed.