Tips for Tourism Professional Photography

10 photography skills for tourism majors

1, understanding the environment

In the morning, the day's travel shooting is about to begin. First, you must master the local environment, climate, customs and places of interest. As long as you have anything useful or interesting to shoot, remember to take some photos of the environment and then take your friends or your model girlfriend away!

3, the horizon composition

I took a close-up portrait, and then two photos of the horizon composition of vision+environment. In composition, the position of the horizon is determined by the characters. Although the horizon exists objectively, it is also the boundary between heaven and earth in composition. When shooting, the position of the horizon is high or low depending on the content. If the main content of the performance is the sky and people, the position of the horizon can be lowered, the composition of the ground in the picture can be reduced, and the scope of the sky can be expanded; On the contrary, if the interesting center of the picture is below, it is necessary to raise the position of the horizon to fully show the scene on the ground.

4, similar to diagonal composition

Using the environment to divide people's positions, the sample of the legend is relatively not an absolute diagonal composition, but it is the easiest picture to shoot during the journey. This composition corresponds to the golden composition, horizontal composition and vertical composition. The biggest advantage of this composition is that the characters stand out from the diagonal lines in the picture, which has three-dimensional sense, extensibility and sense of movement.

5. Look for landmark buildings with composition.

This question is also about the composition and collocation of characters and scenery. I have seen many photos of "coming here". The position of the characters in the photo is not very suitable, and the photos taken have no effect. The key here is that the position of the characters must be appropriate. After the background building is selected, it is the best position for people to stand on the golden section and make a composition, and the picture looks much more comfortable.

6. Find a "dark" environmental background at noon.

The light is very strong at noon, and the film coming out at this time will be "hard" and not soft enough. So it is necessary to choose a dark background. Black or dark background is your best choice, so that the person being photographed is in the light and the background is in a dark environment. We use spot metering to measure the light according to the brightest place on the human body and get the correct exposure. The low light environment of the background will naturally darken.

7. Props around you can be seen everywhere.

In addition to mastering the basic aperture shutter, ISO value and photometry, the use of props and lenses is also essential for tourist portraits and one of the keys to success. Wide-angle lens is suitable for shooting close to the model, while telescope lens is suitable for capturing close-ups or blurring the background with scattered scenes. The use of props is a necessary "gadget" to make the model active and set off the atmosphere.

In addition, the small reflector is also a necessary photographic equipment for swimming shooting. If two or more photographers travel together, they can support each other and use reflectors to fill the light. Correct and effective fill light can illuminate the shadow of the model's face, and the effect may not necessarily be lost to the flash to directly fill the light.

8. Backlight shooting

For backlight shooting, it may be difficult to control the scene from the perspective of backlight. There are indeed a few problems that need special attention, but once you master backlight shooting, you will have a powerful means to make your photos unique and make other photos taken along the light instantly eclipsed.

9. shoot the sunset in the evening

It is difficult to grasp the exposure when shooting the sunset, because the light changes too fast, and it can generally be exposed according to the brightness of the center of the picture. The main object of photometry is the sky. Once overexposed, the atmosphere at sunset is difficult to reflect. The exposure can be controlled within half a step to one step, because the brightness of the sun is always much higher than that of the sky. If there is too much exposure in the sky, the sun will definitely be overexposed, so it is necessary to measure the exposure in the sky when shooting. Directly facing the sun, the exposure reading is always inaccurate. This will result in only the sun in the photo, while the rest is underexposed. ? Many times, underexposure is better than overexposure. Exposure measurement with background can make the subject seriously underexposed and form a strong silhouette.

You can choose the camera's metering mode as "spot metering" and then meter the sky. If your camera has an exposure lock AE lock, press AE? Lock button, lock exposure value (some DC locks by pressing the shutter button). Then re-adjust the composition and shoot with the exposure just now, so that you can shoot the perfect portrait backlight effect.

10, finally a silhouette is taken.

When the sun is about to set, it is also a good choice to take some silhouette portraits. Silhouette is a very practical and attractive shooting technique. This technique can be used more in travel photography creation, and different effects and creativity can also be perfectly reflected in silhouette.

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