On the skills of conference photography

I happened to find myself engaged in conference photography for several years. After listening to Master Yuan's lecture, I have practiced it many times and gained some experience. Last week at the human resources seminar, I was so lucky that my mind had a framework. I quickly wrote it down at the scene and shared it with you here.

The biggest difference between conference photography and daily landscape photography is that it is a job and needs to produce the specified products at the specified time. In addition, the seriousness of the conference also requires us not to exert our creativity at will, nor to make too much noise on the spot to disturb the participants. Therefore, standardized models are particularly important.

In my opinion, to do a good job in conference photography, we should mainly consider three factors: conference venue, conference content and speakers. Let's talk about these three aspects in detail.

(1) site pattern

1. Determine the best shooting point of the panoramic view of the meeting place, judge the best shooting point of the spokesman's photo, and communicate with the meeting staff about the obstacles that can be handled.

It's best to stand on a stool or something to take a panoramic view of the venue. In this way, the perspective of the space is better and the impact of the picture is stronger.

(2) Conference lighting

Generally speaking, it is enough to avoid the illumination of very strong spotlights, and the automatic white balance of ordinary light cameras can generally be recognized and handled well.

(3) Desktop obstacles

1, check whether the flowers on the desktop, microphone and computer screen will block your face.

2. The seat label is within the photographic range. If the seat label is not placed properly, please communicate with the conference staff.

(1) meeting agenda

Be sure to know what the topic of the meeting is and what photos you need to take before taking pictures. If you miss them, it will be a big problem.

(2) the length of the speech

Judge or confirm the length of each speaker's speech according to the topic, so that you can appear at the best shooting point at the right time to shoot. Specifically, the following situations should be distinguished:

1, generally speaking, I don't recommend shooting as soon as the speaker takes the stage. It is often when the speaker is not ready to be nervous, and the shooting effect is better when he speaks a little fluently.

2. If it is a speech that needs to be read to the manuscript or the screen, you have to be prepared before the speaker takes the stage, because often they will have a ceremony before the formal speech, and only then will they raise their heads and then they will bow their heads to read.

At the end of the speech, there will be warm applause at the venue, which is the best live photo. Because the duration is short, you must be able to judge this time point and stand well at the end of the speech.

(3) the content of the speech

If the work is done in detail, you should browse the speech material before shooting. Speakers often have different performances when explaining different contents, such as staring at the screen when explaining data, raising their heads when giving examples, being sad when talking about problems, swearing when talking about plans, and raising their heads with great physical movements when calling at last.

(1) Identification of the appearance of spokespersons.

The general principle of this point is to foster strengths and avoid weaknesses, avoiding facial scars, acne marks, braces, hair covering eyes and so on. I won't say much about the skills, especially when shooting geeks. Try several angles, such as frontal shooting, left 20 degrees, right 20 degrees, frontal shooting, overhead shooting. As long as your aesthetics are good, most people can get it.

(2) the expression and gesture of the spokesperson.

When time permits, we should pay attention to the speaker's speaking habits and grasp energetic and emotional expressions and gestures, but if the speaker's expression is distorted at this time, it is better to use plain expressions.

(a) people can be located in the middle of the picture, but also slightly to one side, as shown in the nine-square division method of photographic composition.

(2) People should occupy a large proportion of the picture as much as possible to ensure that the face is clear and easy to distinguish. Specifically, there will be less blank space in life than portrait photography.

(3) Choose a familiar camera. If you are used to Nikon, you'd better not use Canon, otherwise you will hardly adjust the parameters. Conference photography time is tight, don't use the camera to use the automatic file.

(4) It is best to use external flash+soft mask or eye plate.

Since my works are basically portraits of leaders, there are no pictures here. If you are interested, please go to the intranet to pay attention to the relevant news, especially the news of the recent human resources seminar. The only picture is this human resources seminar. I hope everyone will pay attention to this topic.

Besides, don't look at me saying this. I know that doesn't mean I can do everything. Seriously, you lose ~