Usage Skills of Canon 5D Mark II

Canon 5D Mark II is a high-end Canon SLR camera with many skills. Let's take a look at the following usage skills of Canon 5D Mark II that I carefully recommend for everyone. After reading this article, maybe your questions will be answered.

Usage Skills of Canon 5D Mark II

First, take close-ups of things that are still small, such as flowers, birds and insects.

When using Av files, the aperture should be below f5.6 and the focal length should be above 50. Try to shoot the blurred background within 1m! Iso100 if the light is good; If the light is not good, iso is better within 400.

Second, shoot people.

Basically, we use a larger aperture (within f5.6) and a focal length of more than 50 mm The shooting distance depends on the whole body, chest circumference and large photos, so the background is blurred and Av files are used! Good light, iso 100, poor light, within iso400. People in motion use chasing to express their sense of motion (see the shooting of moving objects below for details)!

Third, shoot the scenery.

For Av files, use an appropriate aperture, above f8, and the focal length is arbitrary, but generally the wide-angle end is distorted, so use it as appropriate.

Fourth, shoot the night scene.

Install tripod, Av gear, custom white balance or incandescent lamp. Aperture above f8 and small aperture can make the light show starlight effect. Use the pre-lifting function of reflector to reduce the machine vibration caused by the lifting of reflector after pressing the shutter. Cover the viewfinder with a square cover on the strap to prevent stray light from entering from behind and affecting the image quality; Within iso200, let the exposure time be as long as possible, let some people who have no intention of walking disappear from the picture, leave no trace, and purify the scene!

For example, if you take a photo of a square, you can use a very small aperture of about f20, iso 100, so the exposure time will be very long, so the walking figure will not stay in the photo! The square will be clean!

Fifth, set off fireworks.

Using the cable release and B shutter, you can shoot the effect of multiple fireworks overlapping!

Six, shoot sports things

Good lighting: Av files, aperture size should be handled properly; A large depth of field effect can be obtained with an aperture above f8, and a shallow depth of field effect can be obtained with a small aperture. If you want to shoot a very dynamic effect, you can use the TV file. The shutter is about 1/30. When you press the shutter, the lens moves behind the object at a suitable speed, which will produce a very dynamic effect!

Poor lighting: only handle it as appropriate, plus the use of chasing!

Photography Skills of Canon 5D Mark II Aircraft

1, constitute

When shooting from the side of the fuselage, reserve space in the driving direction.

When shooting the plane and the ground, the basic composition principle is from 1/3 to 1/4, with the plane in the middle and upper part of the picture and the ground in the lower part of the picture. The photo was taken before and after the plane and placed at the top of the center of the picture. When the plane looks small when photographed from the side, a stable composition can be obtained by reserving space in front of the plane. There are grid lines displayed in EOS 5D Mark III optical viewfinder, which is convenient for checking and correcting the inclination of the ground. In addition, an optical viewfinder with a visual field of about 100% can check whether there are unnecessary scenes around the picture, which is conducive to rigorous composition.

2. light

Divide 1 day into four time periods and use it flexibly.

Attention should be paid to the illumination characteristics of 1 day in aircraft photography. ? Sooner or later? 、? Morning afternoon? 、? Noon? And then what? At night? . Dramatic works can be shot in the morning and evening, which is suitable for documentary photography in the morning and afternoon. At noon, there is no light on the side of the plane, so you can put the sunlight into the picture to make a silhouette. At night, just like shooting a night scene under artificial light, you can adjust the shooting method according to the change of light. When shooting night scenes, try to add as many airport lights and aircraft anti-collision lights as possible. Only EOS 5D Mark III can capture the moment when the red anti-collision light under the car body lights up, which improves the response performance.

3. Camera settings

Capture accurately with 6 1 point autofocus and artificial intelligence servo autofocus.

In principle, manual exposure should be used to photograph airplanes. In sunny days, the standard is F6.7,11000 seconds (ISO 100) for white passenger aircraft, and F8,11000 seconds (ISO 200) for gray fuselage such as fighter aircraft, and the standard is 0.5EV according to the color and light angle of the fuselage. The artificial intelligence servo autofocus with 6 1 point autofocus is used when focusing. The high-speed and high-precision autofocus and high-performance EF lens transplanted from EOS- 1D X will basically not lose focus. But in order to shoot more accurately at night, I preset the focus of the light at one end of the airport runway. Is the white balance set to? Daylight, 30 minutes after sunset, it is completely dark, set to? 3000K？ Set off the atmosphere at night.

Multi-function control key: directly select the autofocus point.

Subjects like airplanes are very large, so 6 1 point autofocus is often used, and sometimes area autofocus is also used. At this time, the user-defined control key function is used, so that the multi-function control key on the back of the camera can directly select the autofocus point, which can also directly select the focus area of regional autofocus. When shooting with a telephoto lens, your hands must be steady, and it is very important to operate only with your thumb.