Shooting skills of telephoto lens

How to use telephoto lens? Photography is a technical activity, which requires a good understanding of photography and one's own aesthetic ability. So how to use telephoto lens in photography? Let's take a look at the telephoto lens shooting skills.

Top 1: Ensure that the shutter is higher than the safety shutter.

In addition to shooting portraits, telephoto lenses are often used for ecological photography, landscape photography and other subjects. In order to ensure that the film does not paste, we first need to use a relatively safe shutter value to shoot. In fact, each lens has its own safe shutter range. At present, the accepted calculation method is "1/ current focal length". For example, when shooting with 200mm, the slowest shutter value will be 1/200 seconds.

If the camera body or lens has shockproof function, it's better to turn it on, because anti-shake can also compensate the shutter, which means that we can use the shutter speed lower than the safety shutter in special circumstances to ensure that there will be no jitter.

However, different camera bodies or lens compensation, shutter series is different, or you should make a good calculation in your mind.

Top2: Cropping mode is also a good choice.

Does the telephoto lens choose APS-C or Quan Huafu? It depends on the theme. However, sometimes a truncated camera with a telephoto lens is better. For example, when the focal length is not enough, the telephoto lens of APS-C camera will be multiplied by the lens coefficient, and the focal length of intangible media will be increased (Nikon and Sony are 1.5 times, Canon is 1.6 times). For example, APS-C camera shoots with 100mm lens, and the equivalent focal length is actually160 mm..

In addition, at present, some full-frame cameras have the mode of opening APS-C frame editing. After the APS-C frame clipping mode is turned on, the viewing angle becomes narrower, but the area of the corresponding focused frame becomes larger, which can almost fill the entire viewfinder, making the focused coverage area larger during the focusing process, which is more conducive to snapshot.

Therefore, for people who like eco-photography, it may be more appropriate to choose APS-C, because it is also a telephoto lens with APS-C format, which can shoot farther scenes, which is very beneficial.

Top3: increase the ISO value.

Because the telephoto lens has a long focal length, the safety shutter will be faster, often faster than 1/200 seconds. Because the shutter is faster and other settings remain the same, the exposure of the photo will be reduced. If the maximum aperture has been opened, normal exposure can only be achieved by increasing the ISO value by one or two levels. Now the performance of ISO800 SLR camera and 1600 is excellent, so you can safely improve the ISO value.

Use a tripod to avoid shaking hands.

We will find that telephoto lenses are basically equipped with tripod bases, which shows that manufacturers actually recommend us to use tripods. Needless to say, the advantages of tripod can save a lot of effort. After all, the weight of telephoto lens is relatively high. Moreover, the tripod can better place the blurred photos caused by hand shaking, so don't be stingy with the tripod when you go out to use telephoto.

Top5: Advantages of telephoto lens

1, you can ignore redundant pictures to highlight the main body.

The telephoto lens has a relatively narrow viewing angle and can focus on the subject or portrait, so it can avoid unnecessary factors and make the subject of the photo more concentrated.

2, there is a sense of space compression

Sometimes the telephoto lens is often used to shoot the scenery, which not only narrows the perspective, but also narrows the spatial distance between the close shot and the distant view, creating a strong sense of oppression and making the photos feel different.

Many students will ask novices what lenses they should buy, one of which is a large aperture fixed focus lens.

Many students will ask novices what lenses they should buy, one of which is a large aperture fixed focus lens.

Advantages of large aperture

If you know about photographic exposure, you must know that the larger the aperture, the more light will enter at the same time, which can keep your photos clear in low light environment (such as indoors, at night, etc.) and make them look better. ) without increasing sensitivity.

In addition to increasing the shutter speed, another function of the large aperture is the depth of the scene. Shallow depth of field can not only highlight the subject, but also make the photos full of poetic and picturesque beautiful scenes. If you add some tricks, you can use the large aperture to shoot scattered scenes of various shapes, which is very interesting to shoot in festivals!

Is the fixed focus lens good or bad?

When many students see the word "fixed focus", the first thing they think of is that the fixed focus lens can't zoom, which is very inconvenient. There is no doubt that not zooming will bring inconvenience, but if the environment permits, you can not only achieve zooming effect by moving your body, but also let you develop the habit of thinking more and finding more angles, and improve your photography skills. Another advantage is volume and weight. Generally speaking, a fixed-focus lens is simpler than a zoom lens, so most fixed-focus lenses are light in weight, small in size (such as a standard 50mm fixed-focus lens) and have clear images. The fixed-focus lens rarely produces distortion, which avoids the trouble of later maintenance.

Therefore, under the factors of cost performance, volume and weight, the large aperture fixed-focus lens is very suitable for beginners. Especially those low-priced fixed-focus lenses, I suggest that students can consider starting and enjoy the fun brought by the large aperture!

Shooting skill

(1) Be serious and focused

When the aperture is fully open, the depth of field is very shallow, so you need to focus carefully. Slight movement will blur the subject.

Focus carefully

Choose the right theme

Large aperture has the characteristics of depth of scene, so you may wish to choose subjects that can make use of shallow depth of field when shooting, such as portraits and close-ups. When shooting landscape photography, you can use the object (focus) to set off the scenery (scattered scenery) and increase the subject matter of shooting.

(c) Do not abuse shallow depth of field.

Although the shallow effect of large aperture is attractive, don't abuse it. For example, if the depth of field is too shallow, the background will become blurred, and the reader will not know where you are at all, which will lose its meaning.

When the aperture is fully open, the depth of field will become very shallow, and the reader may not see the main body of the photo, so don't abuse the large aperture.

(4) Walk around to find the angle.

Because fixed focus is not as convenient as zooming, you can move more when shooting, and it is very beneficial to improve your photography skills to explore interesting angles and things with your photographic eyes.