Xiao Bai's favorite mobile phone photo composition skills

May you blossom the most tenacious flowers in the barren land.

? Photography is inseparable from composition, which is as important as writing an article without composition.

? So, what is a composition?

Composition refers to how to arrange people, scenes and objects in a picture to obtain the best layout, the method of combining images and the sum of all means of revealing images. Good composition can instantly reflect the high-level sense of photos.

① Jiugongge composition

Jiugongge composition should be the most common and basic composition method. This composition method divides the picture into nine equal squares with four straight lines. Suitable for all kinds of shooting subjects, the most commonly used are scenery, people and so on.

? The basic principle of Jiugongge composition: the horizontal and vertical lines are arranged in a "well" shape, and the picture is divided into nine equal parts. Four intersections are people's visual interest points and the most attractive places in the picture. When composing a composition, you can get a better visual effect by placing the main body near the intersection.

Jiugongge composition is in line with people's visual habits, can quickly attract the attention of the audience, and is particularly helpful for highlighting the main body. Of course, Jiugongge composition does not mean that the subject can only be placed on four visual points of interest, and the same effect can be achieved by placing the subject on two vertical lines or horizontal lines. ② Transverse trisection

? Suitable for natural scenery such as mountains, rivers and lakes. The natural scenery photographed in this way is very atmospheric.

③ Vertical trichotomy

? People at the three-point line give people a pleasant sense of relaxation. When taking pictures, the five senses or face are facing the place where there is more blank space. The whole picture will be more balanced.

Move it. Forward, or backward, move the camera up, or squat down to take a picture and adjust it to three-point composition. If conditions permit, the composition of photos can also be adjusted according to the three-point method in the later revision.

④ Horizontal composition

? The most widely used composition method in landscape photography, whether shooting the sea, grassland, desert or mountains, can never avoid the horizon.

But it should not be limited to the traditional horizontal composition.

? There are many horizontal composition materials in life, and many lines can be used, such as stairs as horizontal lines.

It should be noted that the horizontal composition should be truly horizontal, and any slight tilt will break this peace and balance. To this end, you can open the camera's nine squares as a reference when shooting in the early stage, or carry out secondary cropping in the later stage, with only one purpose to ensure the level of the horizon!

This photo is a wrong example.

⑤ Symmetry method

? Symmetrical things have the characteristics of stability and harmony. So many buildings are designed in a symmetrical style, in order to give people a sense of tranquility. Such as our Forbidden City.

The map of the Forbidden City adopts left-right symmetry+trichotomy. Magnificent buildings are basically symmetrical. So if you use left-right symmetry when shooting magnificent buildings, the buildings you shoot will be very atmospheric.

Taking landscape photos, taking the ground plane as the dividing line and effectively using the reflection of water, you can get excellent photos with symmetrical composition. When shooting, we should combine the horizontal composition, put the symmetry axis of the water surface in the center of the picture, enlarge and cut off the redundant disturbing scenery as much as possible, and truly highlight the symmetrical beauty of the subject.

The other is that the subject itself is symmetrical and needs more observation and more angles. Objects that are asymmetrical on a large spatial scale may form symmetry on a small spatial scale; An asymmetric object viewed from one angle may form symmetry from another.

The radian of the plate is used as the basis of the picture to make a symmetrical composition.

6. Diagonal composition

? You can get interesting scenery pictures. In the past, landscape photos dominated by horizontal lines were more vivid under diagonal composition. Through diagonal composition, the photos were cut to present two parts of the photo content. Diagonal portrait shooting is also a common method to make rigid portrait photos more imaginative and vivid.

Diagonal composition, the eagle gives people a feeling of imposing manner and bravery.

? The same eagle, with ordinary composition, this effect is greatly reduced.

? Diagonal composition uses many scenes. Scenery such as roads, bridges and stairs all tend to extend in a straight line, and there is a standard and regular shape, which naturally has the advantage of diagonal composition.

⑦ Triangular composition

It is also a very common photographic composition method. Its concept is to take three visual centers as the main positions of the scene and connect three points to form a triangle. A triangle can be composed of many different visual elements, or it can be composed of the outlines of the visual elements themselves.

It means to give people a sense of extension in the photo. Common as patting the road. You can shoot more roads and bridges. Find more angles.

Pet-name ruby blank method

? Blank space means blank space. Do subtraction, except for the subject we shot, and leave some blank parts for the picture. You can use simple background color, single sky, front ground, etc. to fill the blank part and simplify the complex picture.

In addition, when we take pictures, we have some tips to make them look unique. For example, with the help of some tools, design different perspectives. The same thing can be shot from different perspectives, and a good perspective is the medicine of photos, which has the effect of turning decay into magic.

1, foreground, make the photo more brilliant.

From a normal point of view, the street performer above is not bad, but he can only reach the passing line and has no place to shine. But if you take the head of the person in front as the foreground, you can highlight the subject more, make the characters fuller, and add a little more film to the overall picture, so you can get it when you travel ~

? Use the foreground to create a subtle "sense of distance", shoot from the audience's perspective, and easily create a strong story atmosphere.

? Making good use of the foreground when taking portrait photos can instantly enhance the creativity of composition and make the picture more layered. With a sense of hierarchy, everyone's attention will stay in the photo for more time ~

During your trip, you will often visit some local landmarks. You don't need to shoot them at once. You can first find out if there are any doors, windows or plants nearby that can get a good perspective and use them to complete the foreground composition ~

? Just like the above picture, there are many flower trees around, so make rational use of flowers as the foreground+clear blue sky, so that the scenic spots are not visited at all!

Tips: No matter what you use as a foreground, you should avoid the complexity of the foreground and pay attention to the contrast between reality and reality. Otherwise, it is very likely to grab the topic and grab the limelight ~

2. Learn to use light and shadow

? Photography is the art of light and shadow, and light and shadow have magical power, which can make many things especially photogenic ~

? The following photos were taken by Beijing photographer who won the first prize of IPPA architectural works in 20 16.

? This photo can stand out from so many entries, and light and shadow are really important! ! ! The same scene, the same composition, I'm afraid it won't achieve this visual effect on rainy days.

# Dream Backlight

? Some people may say that backlight is underexposed, but believe me, as long as you master the right method, backlight will also produce different artistic effects!

? Because the face is backlit, it is easy to shoot a big black face. In order to avoid this embarrassing situation, the side backlight is preferred when shooting backlight. Simply put, let the light source be at the left or right rear of your head instead of directly behind it!

? In addition, to shoot the best effect of backlight, it is best to shoot two hours after sunrise or before sunset, because the light at this time is generally soft ~

? Even if the face lighting is not very good, the whole photo looks more natural because of the blessing of the backlight atmosphere.

? The photo above also tells us a truth. The posture that best matches the backlight is "looking back and smiling"!

# Aestheticism Silhouette Photo

? There are always people in the circle of friends who send beautiful silhouette photos from time to time, especially when they are on vacation at the seaside. Are you a little impatient to see these beautiful photos?

? Take a silhouette with your mobile phone. Under the backlight condition, focus on the subject, and then reduce the brightness (pull the small sun to the bottom to minimize the brightness).

# Props to make photos more lively

? When it comes to posing for photos, many people say that they don't know where to put their hands ... At this time, adding a little fun interaction to the photos with props can avoid putting their hands in front of the camera ~

? The most common props in the trip, the camera you carry with you, all kinds of delicious food, the cats and dogs you meet, the roadside telephone booth and so on. , it can be the object of your interaction or the scenery in the photo ~

# How to shoot long legs

I feel in my heart that backhand is the first choice to shoot long legs. The sense of depth we mentioned above, the tall building photographed from above, has a sense of extension, right? The same is true of people who take pictures of long legs. Every time my son takes a picture of me, I look particularly tall. Because he is shorter than me, he should lean back slightly when taking pictures of me, and the effect is still very good.

The operation method is as follows:

① Using vertical composition, from the visual effect, vertical composition will be more slender than horizontal composition.

(2) Use nine squares in the mobile phone to form an auxiliary line. Pay attention to putting the model in the middle of the picture as much as possible, and put the legs below the three-point line, that is, the red frame area. Stretch the long legs through wide-angle distortion. The closer the feet are to the bottom of the picture, the more slender they feel;

Let me show you a comparison.

(3) Leave a suitable space above, and master different proportions of blank space with the help of Jiugongge composition auxiliary line, which will have different degrees of elongation effect.

? If you want long legs, don't shoot from a overlooking angle. The correct angle is to raise your head slightly?

When shooting from bottom to top, the close-up legs will occupy a large proportion of the picture, while the relatively distant face will be smaller, which will visually lengthen the figure. ? PS: Photographers can squat, squat or stand. Squat posture makes it easier to see the screen clearly and adjust the appropriate picture at any time. The height of the camera is roughly the same as the waist of the model, and the camera rises slightly with an inclination angle of about 15 degrees. If you feel that this angle is not easy to grasp, you can adjust it yourself. Standing posture: First of all, of course, it is to hold your chest and abdomen, straighten your body, stagger your legs back and forth, focus on your hind legs, straighten your front legs, and immediately raise your visual height. The action of stretching one foot forward can stretch the long legs, make the legs look better and show a small face? Sitting posture: Don't cross your feet, keep straight forward and close to the bottom of the picture.

Straighten one foot and bend the other, which can lengthen the picture, or put the feet together in the lower left corner or the lower right corner of the picture.

Composition is the skeleton of a photo, but a person doesn't look good just because he has a good skeleton. Photography itself is artistic creation, and photo appreciation is also a highly subjective thing. For composition, it is not an absolute either-or state. Sometimes you think it's good to shoot without composition, just judge by your natural aesthetics. You look good if you think it looks good.

? I hope everyone can take good photos that satisfy them!

This article was shared by Cui Jie, the second training camp of May Home Flower and Bone Blossom. Some pictures come from the internet. If there are duplicates, please contact the author to delete them.