Family photography skills

Home photography is a relatively small category, and everyone's understanding of it may only stay in the advertising of sales and real estate. In fact, it can also be used in our lives. The following are the necessary skills for home photography that I share. Let's have a look.

First, use a tripod.

Tripod is an essential tool for indoor shooting, whether it is furniture or still life. After all, no matter how bright the room is, it is only sunshine that penetrates into the room. With artificial lighting, it looks very bright. In fact, the camera receives very little light. In order to avoid camera shake and provide more reasonable shutter and aperture selection, the use of tripod becomes very necessary.

Second, use real-time view.

Using live view, first, it can be used to assist manual focusing (more accurate than autofocus); Second, low-altitude angle shooting is helpful for framing. The cameras introduced in recent two years are basically equipped with rotating screens, which solves the problem of inconvenient use of optical framing and makes real-time framing more convenient.

Third, create a sense of space with a wide-angle lens.

From the visual experience, the wide-angle lens will make the simple scene extraordinary. Even the room we see every day will become much wider after being enlarged by the wide-angle lens of 16-24 mm, but we should pay attention to the picture distortion caused by the wide-angle lens. Distortion is a double-edged sword. Good use is a bonus, and bad use will ruin your work. Please judge for yourself.

Fourth, multi-angle display

If you really want to shoot excellent home works, you must learn to show what you want to express from multiple angles. A variety of perspectives can not only enrich the content of the picture, but also get rid of the boring feeling of the photo. Psychologically speaking, the change of perspective will make the audience feel more substituted.

Fifth, choose a seat of medium height.

An easily overlooked problem ―― the choice of plane height. Head-up framing is our most common perspective, but it will be boring if we use too much head-up; Low viewing angle can create creative visual experience, but it is not conducive to the display of the actual environment. Therefore, regarding airplane seats, we suggest that the best height is half the height of the house, parallel to the wall. The biggest advantage of this is that it balances the distortion of up, down, left and right, which is convenient for direct correction in the later stage. Because it is difficult to shoot horizontally at this height, we use tripod and real-time shooting.

Six, use a level.

The "level" in family photography is actually a very key point. Many friends may think that it doesn't matter even if it is a little crooked, anyway, it can be rotated and adjusted later. This is also the reason why it is often ignored. Due to the inevitable distortion, once your camera is crooked, post-repair will become unnatural. Whether it is home photography or other photography, we should remember one thing: "What can be solved in the early stage, don't solve it in the later stage."

Seven, the use of stent exposure

When shooting indoors, the light is often uneven, especially when shooting through the window, the difference between light and shade will exceed the tolerance of the camera. In order to preserve the details of the picture, you need to use the "surround exposure" technology, that is, take at least three photos with equal exposure, such as underexposure, normal exposure and overexposure, and then synthesize them with HDR technology to get a photo with all the details.

Eight, the use of flash.

Flash is not only suitable for portrait shooting, but also has many wonderful uses in other photography. In order to make the picture exposure average, in addition to the method of surround exposure, it is also an effective method to make the light hit the ceiling or wall with the help of artificial supplementary light, and to fill the dark part with the light by using the principle of diffuse reflection.

Nine, the use of vertical composition

Using vertical composition can enrich the diversity of your composition and facilitate advertising. If it is for commercial purposes, especially consider the pattern requirements of magazines or online promotion.

Ten, reduce the traces of later.

It is very important to adjust the photos later and grasp the "appropriate" degree. It's okay to shoot it yourself, but if it's for business, it should be as real as possible. Too much later will make people lose trust.