How to shoot with indoor natural light?

Lead: Using natural light to shoot indoors is a professional shooting activity. When taking indoor natural light photography, you can not use flash, but use indoor lighting source or natural light entering from the window. Indoor natural light is characterized by complex and changeable light, strong sense of scene and strong expressive force, which is a favorite light for professional portrait photographers. Therefore, exploring and mastering the use of indoor natural light is an important topic for professional photographers and amateur photographers. Let's have a look!

First, use the natural light from the window.

Indoor natural light mainly refers to the light coming directly from the window. Like the scattered light that is often seen, if the wall around the window is white, it can play the role of a reflector. If the wall is not white, you can paste white paper or white cloth on the wall to reduce the indoor light ratio.

If the indoor light ratio is still large at this time, in order to adjust the contrast between the light and shade of the characters, the photographer can directly use the reflector or indoor lighting equipment to fill the light for the characters.

Shooting skill

When shooting indoors, the side of the person facing the window will have a certain brightness; However, the backlight side will appear very dark, because it can no longer be supplemented by scattered light from the sky in the outdoor environment. At this time, photographers need to use reflective appliances such as white paper and white cloth to balance the light intensity and avoid excessive shadows.

Second, improve the sensitivity of the camera.

Generally, indoor brightness is much less than outdoor brightness. Even if we use tripod and low shutter speed to shoot, it is difficult to shoot the ideal effect. At this time, the sensitivity of the camera to hand-held shooting can be appropriately improved, and richer dark details can be obtained.

Shooting skill

Be sure to pay attention when shooting, too high sensitivity will produce obvious noise and reduce the image quality.

Photography skills

Before improving the sensitivity, we should first observe whether we can turn on the indoor lights (except colored lights) to fill the whole room. If the indoor conditions or shooting theme do not allow, we can adjust the shooting mode of the camera to? Night view? Mode, the white balance is set to? Indoor? The last step is to adjust the sensitivity.

Third, contact with the main characters.

When shooting a single person, the exposure should be based on the measured light value of the person, while when shooting an indoor panorama, the light values of the window and the dark place should be measured separately, and then the two light values should be averaged for exposure. Such dark places will not be too dark, and bright places will not be too bright.

Shooting skill

Indoor natural light portrait photography, sometimes the light and shadow of the window hit people's faces, causing? Flower face? And destroy the image, the solution is as follows:

1. and other light and shadow movements;

2. Choose a position slightly away from the window. If it is cloudy, we can shoot when the sun is blocked to form scattered light. The light will be particularly soft at this time. Of course, we can also use transparent curtains to block the windows and avoid the shadows.