Composition, Contrast and Light in Photography

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1. Use a different framework:

Such as a horizontal frame, a vertical frame or a square frame.

2. The golden section composition:

That is, the well-shaped composition method is especially suitable for shooting two kinds of pictures. First, the main body occupies a small area in the picture, which can make it stand out in the picture; The other is that when the subject occupies the whole photo and wants to highlight a part of the subject, it can also be highlighted by placing this part at the intersection.

3. Minimalist composition:

There are few elements in the picture, most of which are blank, and the main body accounts for a small part. It gives people a clean and concise feeling, and there is no lack of artistic expression. It should be noted that:

Choose a simple background, such as a solid color or a picture with regular elements;

Pay attention to the light, you can use the effect of large light ratio to arrange the main body in bright areas, and most of the rest are in the dark;

Ensure the conciseness of the screen content, and choose simple and clean things as the main body;

Using color matching, you can use the expression of black and white images. Most of the pictures are white, the main body is black, or the main body is gorgeous, and the rest are dim.

When taking pictures, you should follow the law of subtraction, keep the picture in an orderly state or keep it simple and clean.

4. Composition of line elements:

Diagonal: The subject itself has a diagonal shape or an inclined mobile phone shooting. Arrange the main body in a diagonal position, so that the main body presents a diagonal relationship to avoid messy scenes.

Horizontal lines: often appear in landscape and architectural themes. Usually one or several lines parallel to the ground will appear in the picture, long or short, hidden or present. Using its ingredients, you can feel comfortable, peaceful and stable. Horizontal lines can be arranged in different positions of the picture, bringing different effects. Such as bisection or bisection, but be sure to keep the horizontal line in the picture level.

S-shaped curve: it usually appears in landscape themes, such as curved waves, streams and rivers in grasslands, expressways and overpasses in urban buildings.

Convergence line: it can make the picture have a strong sense of space depth.

5. Appropriately increase potential customers:

Foreground refers to the scene in front of the screen, which can be the subject or the companion. Generally, it is a foil, which increases the spatial layering of the picture, sets off the main body and makes the picture more layered.

6. Symmetrical composition:

Symmetry: It is more common in ancient architecture and modern urban architecture, which makes the picture more harmonious and regular.

Symmetry up and down: It is presented by reflecting glass or water surface, which is often used in landscape photography to give people a quiet and comfortable visual experience.

7. Framework composition:

Just put the main body in the frame built by the surrounding scenery. There are various boundaries in the picture, such as windows, trees, doors, caves, or virtual color block lines, which can highlight the main body in the picture and increase the sense of space in the picture.

8. Open the composition:

It subverts the traditional concept of composition and brings more imagination. When using open composition, you only need to keep part of the main body in the picture and cut the main body or the rest related to the main body out of the picture. Suitable for shooting all kinds of subjects.

9. Closed combination:

The pursuit is the integrity and independence of the picture structure, and the content is only displayed in the picture. Focusing the viewer's eyes on the subject in the picture presents a complete, unified, balanced and harmonious effect.

10. Multi-point composition:

When there are many identical objects in the picture, we can use the repeated elements to make multi-point composition and arrange the subjects in the picture in the form of multi-point layout. Repeated elements will bring momentum to the picture, which can not be achieved by a single subject. The repetitive elements of the picture are parallel and equal, so you can try to change different angles when shooting.

1 1. Triangle composition:

That is, the subjects in the picture are arranged in a triangular structure, or the subjects themselves form a triangle in the picture. For example, there is only one subject in the picture, and the three points of the subject can just form a triangle; Or there are multiple bodies in the figure, which are constructed into triangles at a specific angle.

12. Choose different angles to shoot:

There are three main angles: looking up, looking up and looking down, and there are also special angles, such as using the upside-down angle to shoot.

1. Distance comparison:

Different scenes have different distances from the lens, forming a distance relationship in the picture. Use the contrast of distance to highlight the subject and enhance the sense of space in the picture. Usually used in scenery, architecture and other scenes. Pay attention to ensure the clarity of the main focus.

2. Dynamic and static comparison:

There are static and moving objects in the picture at the same time, so we can highlight the subject by using the static-dynamic relationship. When shooting, keep still and absolutely still, so that the moving object can increase the range of motion and blur the image as much as possible. You can shoot in a poor light environment, and the shutter speed of the mobile phone will slow down.

3. Size comparison:

Generally, it is achieved by volume comparison, height comparison and length comparison. First, determine the subject to be highlighted, and then highlight the subject by using the volume or height of the surrounding things.

4. Contrast between light and shade:

? When using contrast between light and dark to build a picture, you can measure the light in the bright area, or use different light in the scene to take a picture of contrast between light and dark to make it more layered. When using this technique, in a large-area bright tone picture, the small-area dark tone area will be more prominent, and vice versa. Therefore, in the layout, we should arrange the relationship between light and shade in the picture according to a certain proportion to make the picture more full and full.

5. Color contrast

Make use of the complementary colors between things, the cold and warm contrast between colors, the different saturation between colors, and the brightness difference between different colors or the same color to make composition shooting.

6. Comparison between reality and reality

When the main area of the picture is clear and other scenes are blurred, the contrast between clarity and blur is the contrast between reality and reality. The picture with large depth of field has a wide range of clarity, which cannot form a sharp contrast between reality and reality. Therefore, it is necessary to narrow the clear range of the picture with a small depth of field and focus on the subject, so that the subject is clear and the background is blurred. You can also adjust the shooting distance between the lens and the subject to control the depth of field.

1. Soft light:

Scattered light with no obvious directionality. In soft light environment, the subject will not produce obvious shadow effect.

2. Strong light:

That is, direct light with strong directivity. It will make the subject have obvious shadow effect, make the picture clear and enhance the impact of the picture.

3. Smooth:

The subject will not have obvious light and shade changes, and the picture is easy to lack three-dimensional sense. You can choose colorful things as the main body or pictures with obvious color contrast, or line elements to enrich the visual effect.

4. Side lights:

The light is irradiated from the left or right side of the main body, and the irradiation direction of the light will form an angle of about 90 with the shooting direction of the mobile phone. Side light can show a clear three-dimensional picture. Pay attention to control the ratio of the light receiving surface to the shadow of the subject and the contrast of the light ratio.

5. Backlight:

Silhouette shooting is ok.

6. Side backlight:

The side backlight forms an angle of 120- 150 with the shooting direction of our mobile phone. When shooting in a side backlight environment, there will be a contrast between the bright area and the dark area of the subject. In this change, the light-receiving surface of the subject will account for a small part, and the dark area of the subject will account for the vast majority, so that the bright part is responsible for expressing the texture and color, and the dark part is responsible for reflecting the outline of the subject, and the picture has a sense of hierarchy and three-dimensionality.

7. Reasonable control of light ratio:

Light ratio refers to the light-dark ratio between the light-receiving surface and the backlight surface of the subject, and different light-dark ratios will have different effects on the picture. Large light ratio, tough and bright; The light ratio is small, soft and flat. In addition to the lighting angle, the shooting angle can also be changed by using strong light and soft light.