Skills of improving photo quality (2)

Triangular composition shooting architecture

Triangular composition is also a very common photographic composition method. Its concept is that three visual centers are the main positions of the scene, and three points are connected to form a regular triangle, an oblique triangle or an inverted triangle. When shooting classical symmetrical buildings such as the Temple of Heaven and the Forbidden City, regular triangle layout is adopted. Oblique triangles and inverted triangles present dynamic effects and are suitable for shooting portraits, sports and other subjects.

The Temple of Heaven is more suitable for regular triangle composition.

The Eiffel Tower itself is a triangle (picture from the Internet).

You can also choose a triangle composition when taking a group photo (the picture comes from the network).

When using triangle composition, we should pay attention to the selection of three points, don't pretend to be the master, and distinguish between primary and secondary relations. The regular triangle composition is more suitable for shooting stable subjects such as buildings and group photos. Inverted triangle and oblique triangle can make photos more vivid and vivid, and are very good choices when shooting people and sports themes.

Subject and background echo each other.

A common mistake made by beginners in photography is to pay too much attention to the subject and not to the matching background or foil. In fact, good photos need to echo the scenery before and after, giving people a sense of patchwork, and properly setting aside the background can also make the subject more prominent. And photos with foreground and background will have a good sense of space and depth of field.

The intersection of the front and back scenery echoes.

The foreground blur highlights the subject behind the photo.

The garden is dotted with the foreground of Mount Fuji.

When taking photos with the scene echoing before and after, we must try our best to simplify the photo elements according to the subject and try our best to eliminate unnecessary elements. Shooting with a large aperture lens can better highlight the subject and blur the background.

Photography is a game of subtraction.

I remember a senior photographer said that photography is the art of subtraction and painting is the art of addition. Painting is adding various elements to a blank sheet of paper, while photography is just the opposite. We need to remove the elements that are not helpful or meaningful to the theme, and a good photo is born in constant subtraction.

Only the subject of photography is highlighted.

Only the subject of photography is highlighted.

When you choose the subject, you should think about which elements in the picture are helpful to the expression of the subject, and those are unnecessary. Use as few elements as possible to express the theme. The less irrelevant elements in the picture, the more prominent the visual focus of the subject will be.

Shoot from different angles

Don't always create at the height of the human eye, try to lower or raise the line of sight, and shoot things from different angles, which can get unexpected results.

Shoot from a very low angle.

Nowadays, many cameras have flip screens, and SLR cameras are also equipped with simple and easy-to-use real-time viewing function, which provides great convenience for us to take pictures from unconventional angles. For example, the photo of the flower above, the author almost put the camera on the ground and took it from below with the flip screen of the camera. This angle of view is not common compared with most flower shooting.

A deer photographed from a very low angle.

The photo of the deer above was taken when I was traveling in Japan. At that time, I used a Nikon SLR camera D5300 with a flip screen. With the live view function, I put my camera on the ground and photographed a deer lying on the dam.

A photograph taken at a very low angle.

If you lower or raise the viewing angle, you will find that the faces of many things have changed, and the photos taken are very different from those from the normal viewing angle. When shooting still life, flowers and other subjects, lowering the angle can better express the texture and material of things. When shooting buildings and figures, proper use of overhead photography can reflect the grandeur of buildings and the straightness of figures.

Summary:

Jiugongge is the most commonly used composition method and one of the golden rules in photography. Beginners have mastered this method, and the structure of photos can be more harmonious and natural. Guiding line composition can highlight the central idea and key points of photos and make the focus of photos more prominent. Diagonal composition is vivid, which is applicable to both figures and buildings.

Frame composition is also a classic composition method, which uses the elements in the photo to form a frame to make the focus of the photo more prominent. Triangular composition is more suitable for taking symmetrical buildings, and can also be used when many people take pictures. In a photo, the subject needs a background to be less abrupt, and a good background blur can make the subject clearer. Painting is the art of addition, and photography is the art of subtraction. Remove the unnecessary elements from the photo, and the rest is the essence. Try to take pictures from an unconventional perspective, and you can get unexpected results.