How to shoot and compose?

Five key points of digital camera composition

You may often find that people who shoot movies and TV often choose different places, even crawling and climbing, in order to shoot. In fact, they are looking for a suitable composition, because this is one of the keys to highlight the theme of the film. It's the same for you to shoot a video with a digital camera. You need a proper composition. The following are the main points of choosing a composition when shooting with a digital camera.

1, the composition should be "accurate". Composition is the process of creating structural forms for themes and creative intentions. If you want to "write a good composition", you must go deep into "conception". In other words, the ideological content and artistic connotation to be conveyed and expressed by each shot must be very clear and concentrated, and should not be ambiguous or ambiguous, but should reflect the concise theme and conception in a distinctive composition form.

2, the shooting picture should be "fine". When you pick up the camera and face the world, you will find that the subject is not naturally drawn. It inevitably requires us to select, refine and even abstract and generalize with the view frame, so as to "extract" a beautiful and moving picture from the natural messy image. As shown in fig. 7, it can be said that the composition of TV pictures requires the cameraman to keep a close eye on the subject, and on the other hand, try to avoid unnecessary pictures that interfere with the subject. If the scenery in the picture is complicated and disorderly, it is impossible to make the composition concise and lively. Television pictures must also make certain artistic choices through composition, and draw a clear line with the nature that has no boundary with the scenery frame. When shooting grand scenes, we should strengthen the logic of the lens and the organization of the content. After a goal is explained clearly, it is necessary to turn to the next goal. Never blindly shoot a gun to change places or bump into it like drilling a maze.

3. The subject should be "bright". Whether the main object to be represented in the picture is prominent or not is one of the main criteria to measure the composition. The key to composition and modeling skills lies in how the subject expresses himself. As a small-screen, one-off movie screen, we must correctly handle the relationship between subject, companion and environment, so as to achieve clear priorities, mutual care, clear outline and orderly levels. A messy background will distract attention from watching this, reduce visibility and weaken the status of the subject. Remove impurities from the picture before shooting, or shoot from another angle to avoid irrelevant background on the picture. To make the main body of the picture stand out and bright, we can arrange the main body in the visual center of the picture, occupy a certain area, and coordinate the relationship between the main body and the foil.

In addition, when there is only one subject in the picture, we should make full use of various dynamic composition methods to show the image of the subject in all directions, and avoid being dull and lifeless. For example, we can first select several push-pull routes, determine various starting frames and left pictures, and then organically connect different compositions in series during the shooting process, so as to achieve varied and fascinating effects.

4. The picture should be "good-looking". We often say that composition should be "beautiful". In order to truly create a "beautiful" picture, we must create a colorful, beautiful and vivid composition form according to the requirements of content and the possibility of realistic conditions, through the spatial configuration of the picture, the use of light, the choice of shooting angle, the adjustment of tone, color and line modeling. The cultivation of artistic expression of this kind of picture composition requires photographers to start from their own characteristics, constantly explore and summarize in the practice process, and combine a comprehensive and solid technical foundation with the modeling consciousness of picture composition, so as to shoot a beautiful picture with a high degree of unity of content and form, making the picture more artistic expression and visual appeal.

5. Color matching should be "excellent". Pay attention to some eye-catching colors when shooting, especially red, bright yellow and dark blue, which will attract the attention of the eyes. Avoid colors that have nothing to do with the protagonist but will attract attention. Moreover, the color balance is good, and the picture should have a strong sense of hierarchy to ensure that the subject can stand out from all backgrounds. If you wear black clothes, don't arrange to shoot on a dark background.

In addition, attention should be paid to the relationship between action composition when shooting. If it is a picture without characters, when introducing the environment and explaining the background, whether it is the picture or the left picture, we should find out the main objects that can express the characteristics of the environment as the basis for composition and picture movement; If there are characters (or other moving subjects) in the picture, the composition and movement of the picture should be based on the characters. The movement of the camera either follows the movement of the characters or carries out complex scene scheduling. And the composition should change according to the characteristics of the content or environment, and grasp the changes of the main factors.

The composition of the camera picture runs through the whole camera work, starting before the camera is turned on and ending after the camera is turned off and stopped. As a creative link, composition is an impromptu and personalized work, and it is difficult to define specific and unchangeable principles and patterns. Only by shooting more and practicing more can we make a film with artistic style.

Third, the principle of camera composition

The above is the composition method of digital camera. In order to get a satisfactory composition, you need to master the following principles.

1, keep the camera balanced.

Keep the camera in a horizontal position before shooting, so that the captured image will not be skewed. You can use buildings, telephone poles and other objects parallel or vertical to the ground as reference objects, and try to keep the picture balanced when taking pictures.

2. Maintain the vitality of a single subject.

When there is only one subject in the picture, we should make full use of various dynamic composition methods to show the subject image in an all-round way and avoid being dull and lifeless. For example, several push-pull routes can be selected first to determine various starting frames and left pictures, and then different compositions can be organically connected in series during the shooting process to achieve varied and attractive effects. Take shooting a drum performance as an example. You can start with the shaking drumstick and pull out the panorama. Then the digital camera moves to the left, pushes up, and takes a close-up of the player through the triangular space formed by the drum body and the person. Then move to the left, clap the jumping hand on the keyboard and pull it into a distant view. In this way, the subject image can give people a strong visual impression through all-round vivid expression.

3. Keep in touch with multiple disciplines.

When there are two or three subjects in the scene, and the subjects are far apart, the camera's viewpoint should not jump from one target to another out of thin air, but should find the organic connection between the subjects, so that the audience's viewpoint can slide along the "connecting line" to avoid disrupting the coherence of the rhythm because of "disconnection".

4, eliminate the interference of other objects

When shooting, make sure that no one or other objects move between the camera and the main character. Don't let some irrelevant characters half in the picture and half out of the picture. If you shoot activities that you can't control, then you can't guarantee that all the compositions are perfect, but you can arrange your main characters in the correct position in the picture. Scan the whole scene at the same time, eliminating unwanted scenes.

5, the picture should be neat and smooth.

When shooting a grand scene, there are many important targets to shoot. At this time, it is necessary to arrange the shooting order as a whole and strengthen the logic of the lens and the organization of the content. After a target is explained clearly, it will turn to the next target. Don't shoot blindly for a place or run into it like drilling a maze. A messy background will distract attention from watching this, reduce visibility and weaken the status of the subject. Remove impurities from the picture before shooting, or shoot from another angle to avoid irrelevant background on the picture.