Portrait photography skills How to use the natural light of the card machine to shoot beautiful underwater portraits

Seeing many beautiful underwater portraits, are you ready to move if you like to challenge? However, such professional underwater photography requires specially customized props, rigorous lighting and professional models, which is difficult for ordinary photographers to do. Today is a guide to civilian change. We can also challenge beautiful underwater portraits with only card machines and natural light. Let's have a look! Complete technical guidance makes you not only addicted to your eyes. First, the choice of clothing and props venue: this is the swimming pool that comes with the villa when accompanying guests to Sanya, which is relatively private and free. The environment is also very good. But an ordinary swimming pool is ok, almost. Prepare props: waterproof bag, optical card machine (Casio selfie artifact Casio TR 150) and diving glasses. Clothing: elegant long skirt, the best yarn material, white will have a pure fairy sense, red will form a strong contrast with clear water. Second, shooting skills Generally, underwater photography is to make a large glass water tank, and then distribute light outside the water tank, and the camera also takes pictures outside, so the light is controllable. But this underwater portrait is not suitable for imitation. It needs very professional equipment, special water tank props and a big studio to arrange, which consumes manpower and material resources. This set of works I shot is a guide for civilians. Simple and easy to imitate, guaranteed to teach haha! 1. It is difficult and troublesome to arrange lights underwater in full natural light, which affects the freedom of shooting. Natural light is enough during the day, because it is actually very bright and transparent underwater. The sunlight is direct, the water is sparkling and the light is constantly refracted, which is very beautiful. In fact, due to the limitation of equipment, the performance of photos is actually limited. It's nice to have the opportunity to open your eyes and see for yourself. 2. The shooting time must be around noon 12. When the sun shines directly, shooting from underwater to the sun will have a beautiful feeling of sunny. Moreover, at this time, the light is the strongest, which can fully illuminate the bottom of the swimming pool, fully meet the shooting conditions, and it will not be too dark underwater to meet the exposure conditions. 3. Auto-focusing is easier than the automatic focusing of the SLR snapshot card machine, and it is easier to aim the subject near the center of the camera. Because the model can't stay underwater for long, she needs to keep pressing the shutter after a while. With so many shots, there will always be a few that can be in focus. If not, repeat it several times. Just use the camera's autofocus function. Press the shutter at first and then press it again, just like other times. You can turn on the touch focusing function, which makes the operation and focusing easier and faster. 4. Set the life scene. Because it is the swimming pool in the living room, more props can be used. Many times, you must learn to use local materials, because we can't take a lot of things anytime and anywhere. I found a cup here, so I can pretend to drink water. Inspired, friends who have been in the water should know that it is difficult to sink completely. The buoyancy of water is relatively large, so I grabbed the railing and fixed it underwater to prevent the whole person from floating up. The photographer also asked another person to hold my shoulder to keep me from floating. Setting up life scenes and showing these normal life scenes underwater can show more possible and impossible collisions and increase the fantasy of the picture. 5. How to exercise underwater If you can't swim at all and especially want to take underwater portraits, what should you do? In fact, as long as the operation is proper, it is not so terrible at all, and you can get into the water without swimming. Step: 1) Just get used to staying in the water at first. 2) Hold your nose slowly and immerse it in the water. 3) Try to let go of your hands and immerse them underwater for a long time. 4) Try to open your eyes until you are completely afraid of water, and you can challenge some difficult movements.