How to take good-looking photos in location shooting

Lead: After doing outdoor wedding photography for so many years, photographers often ask:? What is the most important thing in location shooting? How to use the ambient light of the scene when shooting on location? Wait, my answer every time is:? The most important thing in location shooting is the use of light! ? Here I would like to share with you how to use the sunset light from 5 pm to 6 pm to create the artistic conception of the picture.

In fact, when it comes to using light, we might as well say that it is using light, making good use of the natural light of the scene, and shooting as the main light is king. Why do you say that? There are two reasons: first, the power of most outdoor lighting lamps is not more than 600W, but more than 400W W, so it is difficult to reach the light ratio of the main light in the face of natural light, especially strong natural light. If you do it, it will be hard. Without the softness of natural light, you will lose the artistic conception of the picture. Secondly, location shooting conditions and manpower constraints, most location shooting teams only have one lamp, which restricts the use of location shooting lights.

● Brightness selection and fill light

At 5-6 pm, the sun is located in the west, making an angle of about 45 degrees with the horizon. Sunlight is softer and more transparent than morning light. Of course, according to the different seasons, the time of sunset will be different. We just need to make a choice according to the specific sunshine height. Most of the light levels we choose to use are sidelights or backlights. If it is pure backlight, the picture needs to choose a dark background, because shooting pure backlight basically needs to be exposed according to people's faces, which will make people's skin look clean and transparent. If the background is not dark, the background will be completely overexposed when the person is accurately exposed, and the whole picture will have no sense of hierarchy. Generally, two reflective plates will be used to fill the light, one as the bottom plate to eliminate the shadow of the chin and eye bags, and at the same time play the role of eye light; A painting forms a three-point line with the sun and the figure, which is full of the figure's face and body, but the light ratio should not be too large, taking the elimination of shadows as the standard, otherwise the light of the figure will appear more rigid. Sometimes you can deliberately let the sun eat into the lens, adding a sense of obscurity to the picture.

If the scene light is not strong enough to outline the figure, we can use outdoor light to fill the light at a position similar to the sunshine level. It should be noted that the light ratio should not be too large, otherwise the figure outline will be overexposed and the light ratio of the whole picture will be affected; Secondly, the distance should be relatively far, based on the ability to fill the outline of the whole body of the character. Don't just put the outline light on your head or upper body, which will make the picture look uncoordinated.

● Depth of field control and image lines

The use of the lens basically adopts telephoto lens, blurring the background to highlight the protagonist, or blurring the second role in the picture to make the picture more theatrical and produce MV effect. The lines in the picture should be clean. When the main line appears, we must make good use of it. Be careful not to pass through the main joints of the characters, such as the head and neck. Secondly, it is best to use the main line of the picture to increase the sense of extension of the picture, focus on the main body, and cooperate with the depth of field control to enhance the visual impact of the picture.

● Color temperature control

At sunset, the color temperature has basically reached more than 5000K K, and the yellowish color will give people a warm feeling. What we need is not to reduce the color temperature of the camera to balance, but to enhance the softness of the picture with a setting higher than the color temperature of the scene. Generally, I will set the color temperature around 6500. But be careful not to use the golden surface of the reflector to reflect light, otherwise the yellow tone of the face will feel the picture, and the color temperature control of the whole picture is limited to the normal range of the tone of the face.

Grasp the three most important elements in the above shooting techniques of using sunset to express artistic conception, then? Sunset for me? In location shooting, I think we should always remember that the main light is always the sun, and all we have to do is make good use of the sunlight. Although we have equipment to fill the light outside, please remember, except taking photos with large light ratio, don't point the lamp at the sun, because your arms can't be screwed on your thighs!