Travel shooting must master four entry-level SLR.

When traveling, what you want is the word "fast". Don't think that your entry-level SLR is a rookie. If you master its powerful functions and respond quickly, you can definitely compete with professional SLR!

Travel shooting must master four entry-level SLR.

Travel shooting must master four entry-level SLR.

Stop thinking about focusing.

Canon 500D snapshot function: automatic facial recognition function.

I often meet wonderful people in my travels, but it is difficult for many movie friends to skillfully complete the process of metering, composition and focusing, and the focus of the film is often not on the face!

Set the automatic face recognition function in the camera

We choose Canon 500D as an example, which can completely help you solve this problem. This function can recognize up to 35 faces in the picture, helping you to finish shooting quickly. You can set it according to the following steps.

Set the automatic face recognition function in the camera

1. You can open the real-time display function settings through the menu.

2. Press the "Setup" key and select "Auto Focus Mode".

3. Press the "Settings" key and select "Real-time Face Recognition Mode".

F8,1/20s, ISO 100.

Complex shooting environment

Focus only on expression and composition

The complex shooting environment only pays attention to expression and composition.

First of all, the camera can automatically recognize the face for autofocus, and the focus frame will move with the movement of the face. At this time, the composition makes the person's face appear in the most suitable place in the picture, press and hold the automatic exposure lock, and press the shutter when the focus frame turns green to focus; A portrait with a clear face will be taken.

What about a group of people?

Quickly choose the face with the most vivid expression

F2.8,11000 seconds, ISO200

When you shoot three girls in the picture, which girl will the camera automatically focus on? What if you don't like the girl whose lens is focused? When there are many people in the picture, Canon 500D's automatic facial recognition system will recognize larger or closer faces in the picture. Don't think that the camera's automatic function ends here, its IQ is much higher than here. You will find two small triangular arrows on the focus frame. Use the cross key on the back of the camera to move the selection, and the focus box will quickly jump to the next face. The next thing is to quickly complete the composition and press the shutter to complete the shooting. The automatic facial recognition function allows you to save the step of focusing when shooting and concentrate entirely on the composition and expression of the characters. For film friends who just picked up the entry SLR, there is no need to worry.

Face in shadow, face and background should appear at the same time.

F6.3, 1/500 seconds, ISO 100.

The focus problem has been solved. When shooting portraits during travel, you often encounter large backlight, clear face and white background. If the background is clear, the face will be black. You can try the automatic brightness optimization function of Canon 500D.

1 Four-speed control is available.

Canon 500D has four effect settings: Off, Standard, Weak and Strong. More importantly, automatic brightness optimization also has facial recognition function.

You can boldly choose "strong"

Turn on the automatic brightness recognition function to "strong". With the obvious enhancement of face brightness, there is little difference between the "standard" and "strong" levels of this function, so you can make a bold choice.

It can only be turned on when it is backlit.

Turn off this function when the brightness of front light and background is lower than the brightness of human face; Only when a person's face brightness is lower than the background brightness, it makes sense to turn on this function.

Take a picture of Magnum.

Olympus E620 snapshot function: nostalgic particle filter

If you are a cinematographer obsessed with rough documentary works and regard Magnum as the ultimate shooting dream, now I tell you that you can shoot coarse-grained nostalgic works at any time without later!

Set a nostalgic particle filter in the camera.

Set a nostalgic particle filter in the camera.

Olympus E620 photo nostalgic particle effect filter can easily create very tasty images, flip the LCD screen, and with excellent live view function, it also allows you to shoot unconventional angles.

1. The "ART" on the quick dial wheel at the upper right of the fuselage allows you to quickly enter the interface.

2.*** There are six artistic styles for you to choose from, and "ART5" is what we want.

3. After selecting "OK", you can directly shoot the magnum-style coarse-grained effect.

Three elements of rapid shooting

Three elements of rapid shooting

If you want to shoot the style of magnum, it is not enough to have a black and white coarse grain effect. The following suggestions need to be kept in mind.

1. Tips for choosing a theme

To make a classic nostalgic blockbuster, we must first choose a good theme. Above, like a roof extending from four corners, we return to Lu Xun's youth. This kind of theme that can awaken our past, touch the softest part of people's hearts and reproduce the past is one of the preferred themes. 1. The "ART" on the quick dial wheel at the upper right of the fuselage allows you to quickly enter the interface.

Shoot with a wide-angle end

Bresson's decisive moment influenced a generation of photographers, and the perspective under the 35mm lens is still fresh in my memory. Therefore, when shooting this kind of documentary scenes, it is easy to have a nostalgic visual sense by choosing a smaller focal length than the standard lens. Wide-angle viewing angle can make your picture more tense and increase the overall atmosphere of the picture; The scenery placed on the edge of the picture should be carefully composed, so that the edge deformation of the wide-angle picture can appear reasonably.

3. Discover artistic scenes

There are many nostalgic scenes scattered in the corner of life. At this time, with the nostalgic particle effect of photos, small scenes can still shoot large films. The simple roof seems to bring us back to the days when Lu Xun looked up when he was a child, and the nostalgic effect of coarse particles adds a strong flavor of the year to the whole picture. We can use the flip screen to shoot down or at a low angle close to the ground, which will have a good effect.

One-click shooting with super rich details.

Sony 550 snapshot function: DRO+HDR function

For shooting scenes with large light ratio, we provide many solutions. Don't think that they are problems handled by professional SLR, and the snapshot function that will be on the scene soon can help you solve them.

Set the DRO+HDR function in the camera.

Sony α550' s DRO (Dynamic Range Optimization) +HDR (Automatic HDR), it seems that the names of these two functions are very professional, don't be afraid! Simply put, these two functions are used for scenes with high light ratio, such as sunrise and sunset.

Set the DRO+HDR function in the camera.

1. You will see the shortcut key of "D-RANGE" on the "right shoulder" of the camera.

2. After opening the menu, you can select the "DRO" function from Auto and LV 1-5.

3. "HDR function" has AUTO and LV 1-3 to choose from.

DRO (Dynamic Range Optimization) dynamic large light ratio pictures are very easy to use.

F4, 1/250 seconds, ISO 100

The DRO (Dynamic Range Optimization) of Sony α550 is divided into "automatic" and "LV 1-5" for your choice. You can choose different levels according to the contrast between the light and dark of the shooting scene. If you are not sure when shooting, you can try boldly and step by step. With this setting, you don't have to consider annoying exposure compensation! The steps of DRO (Dynamic Range Optimization) shooting with Sony α550 are as follows:

1. Select the "DRO" automatic file and select the "DRO"-"Automatic" item in the "D-RANGE" menu.

2. You can boldly choose "strong" to press the shutter, and once the shutter works, you can quickly capture this picture. The camera automatically illuminates the child's face, and the background appears harmoniously in the picture. It should be noted that when shooting, try to choose the following option "LV3", which may cause more noise in the picture.

HDR (Automatic HDR) needs a tripod to help you stabilize the camera.

HDR (Automatic HDR) needs a tripod to help you stabilize the camera.

Different from the DRO (Dynamic Range Optimization) function, HDR function is that the shutter works twice continuously, so this function is more suitable for shooting scenery works with large light ratio.

When shooting, the camera takes two photos continuously and then synthesizes them, which has certain requirements for the stability of the fuselage. In general, in order to ensure that the final composite photo may have ghosting or uneven superposition, we still recommend that you use a tripod to shoot here.

You can shoot amazing results without professional equipment.

Nikon D5000 snapshot function: fisheye lens effect

F2.8, 1/40 seconds, ISO800, the work of the protagonist in the center of the picture is suitable for the "fisheye" retouching effect.

Entry-level SLR film photographers, most of them will not have a very complete lens, let alone buy a fisheye lens. In fact, your camera can also take these effects quickly.

Setting fisheye lens function in camera

The touch menu of Nikon D5000 provides you with many unexpected processing effects, and the fisheye effect is one of them. It can turn ordinary pictures into wonderful effects at once.

Setting fisheye lens function in camera

The scenery of the fish now is very different from that in the portrait.

If you want to use the fisheye function to change the picture into a good effect, the key is to have a complete idea of the picture when shooting. What kind of scene is suitable for fish-eye effect? What's the difference between a landscape and a portrait?

If you want to retouch a character's picture with fisheye effect, you need to keep the character away from the camera or put the character in the center of the picture when shooting. Because the central part of the fisheye retouching effect is not deformed to reduce the visual discomfort of distorted characters, such as the "fisheye portrait" on the left is a wrong choice.

When shooting scenery works, there are also the following skills.

1. Choose a theme with good line sense.

2. The picture composition should be as symmetrical as possible, so that the fish-eye effect picture will have more visual impact.

3. The center of the picture is very important, which can control the deformation degree of the surrounding lines. Consciously arranging the symmetry of these lines is of great benefit to the picture effect

The scenery of the fish now is very different from that in the portrait.

Another useful function: cross filter.

Another useful function: cross filter.

The night scenes taken by others are always "starry", but their own lights are always pale and powerless. You can show others the same photos in a few simple steps without a starlight mirror! The city night scene is more suitable for the later retouching of the cross filter function. Nikon D5000' s starlight cross filter provides you with a very detailed choice, but in order to choose the "stars" in the picture, the more the better, the more reasonable and the more hierarchical.