Shooting skills of street sweeping documentary

Lead: Documentary photography is a kind of photography with recording the reality of life as its main appeal. The material comes from life and reality, and truthfully reflects what we see. Therefore, documentary photography has the value of recording and preserving history and has the unique qualification as a social witness.

I. Understanding documentary photography

Documentary photography is regarded as a good form of expression, which reflects the relationship between man and nature, man and events, and man and man by means of photography. As an art, photography embodies certain literariness and the possibility of creation, so does documentary photography.

Documentary photography is usually used to show people and things in society, and we need to use cameras to explore these objective things. Every recorded instant picture should reflect the author's point of view. Sometimes it can praise and express the beauty of life, sometimes it can record the hardships of life from a critical angle, sometimes it can reflect the real scene of society from a considerable angle, and sometimes it can reflect strong emotional views from a very subjective angle.

1. Classification of documentary photography

(1) news (at present, news photography often appears independently)

② Humanistic documentary

③ Landscape documentary

④ Portrait class

2. Selection and use of equipment

If you want to shoot documentary photography well, you must first have a better understanding of the equipment in your hand, so as to meet the basic requirements when shooting. Here, I still suggest that you try to choose SLR digital cameras, such as Canon's 5d ii/7DII, which are all cross-focused at more than 40 points, which can greatly improve the focusing speed and accuracy when shooting. We can choose to focus on the central point of the cross focus and make a secondary composition, so that we can finish shooting quickly. Secondly, the matching of lenses, usually a standard zoom lens is enough, such as lenses with focal lengths of 24-70mm, 24- 105mm, 18-200mm, and sometimes lenses below 24mm are used, but I don't recommend using them often, because besides the barrel shape in the center, there are also distorted people around the screen. When the subject is too far away, we also shoot with a telephoto lens. Although the scene is out of control, once the picture is taken, the effect is still very good.

Second, documentary photography skills

1. camera settings

First of all, continuous shooting, who set the lens, is very important, because continuous shooting can get a greater success rate in most documentary photography works, especially those with figures. Generally, I will use about 3 continuous shooting, and often change the focal length when shooting, so that shooting is more purposeful. In documentary photography, the choice of sensitivity is relatively simple, that is, to match the sensitivity with the shutter, so as to achieve the speed of shooting clear pictures.

2. The theme of documentary photography

Theme is the most important in every kind of photography, and documentary photography is to tell a story with pictures and a story with a photo, and the story should be relatively simple. Too complicated content should be represented by a set of photos and a special photo. After all, the content of a photo is limited.

As far as the content is concerned, the relationship between the main ligands in the figure is mutual. The more ligands, the easier it is to tell a bigger story, and the smaller the better, but the more ligands may interfere with the performance of the subject, depending on the theme of expression.

Some topics are difficult to explain with a single photo, but need to be explained with a group photo, usually around 4-8 photos.

Example demonstration of group photo documentary

Photographers need good editing skills to take group photos. Here, the author shares a personal experience. Formally speaking, it needs panoramic view, middle view, close-up view and close-up. Such a picture should also cooperate with the panorama in form, so as to tell the story of the picture more thoroughly.

3. The use of timid heart

When people first come into contact with documentary photography, most people are afraid to get close to the people or things being photographed, which is also an inevitable stage. Robert. Kappa once said: If you are not good enough, Nash, is it because you are not close enough? . But this is not to encourage everyone to shoot openly. In fact, close-range sneak shots are also the experience of many masters.

Let's share some skills about documentary shooting.

(1) waiting for him. When you see a good scene, wait here until the right picture appears.

② Concealed method. Buy a right-angle viewfinder to block the subject.

3 shoot blindly. Hang the camera on your chest and take a sneak shot.

4 raid. Set the exposure function in advance, sneak into the subject to shoot, smile at the subject when you find it, or sit down and chat.

Step 4 look for different perspectives

Unique perspective, always pursuing the balance between composition and content. A new perspective can highlight the content of the picture, but many photographers will shoot a new perspective because of the new perspective, which is a wrong judgment. A good photographer often takes many photos of key themes, ranging from ten to eight to twenty. Only after the basic pictures taken in the early stage will there be some creative composition, and this is also the process of gradually understanding and understanding things.

① High viewing angle

② Low viewing angle

(3) Need to find the feeling of candid camera.

(4) capture the difference picture

⑤ Discover the beauty of light

⑥ decisive moment