How to take good stage photography?

Stage photography is to create a typical image through the changes of body movements and modeling of typical images on the stage, and to express the beauty of modeling, action, expression and artistic conception of stage art, thus expressing thoughts and feelings. The stage lighting is exquisite and changeable, which is a favorite subject for photographers. However, the light changes greatly and the ambient light is weak, which also brings some difficulties to shooting. Take a good stage photo, you have to hug me as follows.

1, understand the plot, and be familiar with the color and light color changes of stage lighting.

Knowing the plot, mastering the performances and the ins and outs of the characters in the play can help us know fairly well when shooting, facilitate timely grasping, help us to make rational use of light to shape the image, and make the actors' emotions and actions more vivid and vivid.

2. Common equipment for stage photography

Because the stage lighting changes greatly, in order to ensure the normal shooting in low light, we should choose a fast lens with a large aperture, and a zoom lens with wide angle to medium focus and medium focus to telephoto is more suitable. Use a tripod instead of a flash when taking pictures, which will easily ruin the stage atmosphere.

3. The shooting angle of stage photography

Stage photography is influenced by lighting and performance space, and the shooting angle is greatly limited. Generally speaking, the left or right position of the first row centered on the stage is the best, especially the right side. This position faces the actor's appearance or end, and often has a good expression to capture when he appears and ends, and it can avoid the influence of the microphone placed in the middle and will not affect the audience to watch the performance. Under the condition of shareholding, the shooting angle can be selected from multiple angles on stage and off stage, and the pictures will be more changed.

4. The focus of stage photography

Stage art is a kind of moving art, and many scenes are dramatic changes such as jumping, rotating and running. When shooting, you need fast and accurate focusing technology to capture beautiful dance and achieve clear results. Usually, the camera's autofocus function can meet the requirements of stage shooting, but due to the large change of light, autofocus will fail in the case of dark light, and manual focusing can be used instead. When focusing manually, it is usually solved by sight distance and distance measurement in advance. Before shooting, we can measure the distance between the camera and the pre-performance area, the middle performance area and the post-performance area in advance, and then use the depth of field focusing method to find out the clear aperture from the pre-performance area to the post-performance area, so that when grabbing the lens, we will not lose the opportunity because of focusing.

5. Exposure of stage photography

Stage photography exposure is the key to the success or failure of a work. When the intensity of stage lighting changes greatly, which exposure mode is adopted is usually determined by the rhythm of stage performance and the photographer's shooting intention. The performer's action range is not large and the action is not fast. Aperture priority mode can be adopted. First, the aperture is determined, and then the camera determines the shutter speed according to the light change. If the performance is fast and sharp, you can adopt the shutter priority mode, first determine the shutter speed, and the aperture size is automatically determined by the camera.

6. Color temperature balance

There are many color films used for stage lighting, and the brightness and color temperature vary greatly. If only the white balance mode is set, the picture will be cold or warm with the color temperature change of stage lighting, and even there will be serious color cast. The solution is to adjust the white balance mode at any time according to the change of stage lighting, so as to get the picture with accurate color temperature.