How to shoot a beautiful still life

Lead: There is a key point in shooting food and still life, and that is transparency. Let's take a closer look.

Choose a light source (Keywords: creating a sense of transparency)

I don't know if you feel the same way, but I especially like the feeling that soft light flows quietly through objects such as water. Looking at them being cleverly placed in front of our eyes, we will feel that time seems to have been quietly solidified, and the years have been so properly placed, gently covered with the glory of life.

Look carefully at the picture below, the light overflows the tableware like water, and it is the clear and natural layering that makes everything look real and quiet.

So how to create such a lighting effect?

The answer is not complicated. What I usually do is look for a single light source. This is the simplest and most effective way to create a layered picture.

Where the sense of transparency comes from, it is not difficult to find that the sense of transparency is actually a clear sense of light layering.

If you choose natural light, you can try to turn off the lights in the house. If you choose lighting, you can choose to close the curtains and turn on only one light at a time. Of course, the brightness of this lamp should be enough to support your shutter speed.

As shown below: natural lighting, you can feel the light getting darker and darker from far and near until it leaves a shadow at the bottom of the bowl. The white in the distance is a curtain, which is like a soft lampshade, filtering out the sunshine outside the window softly and easily.

As shown below: This is an example of lighting. The single light source is still in front of and above the cup, so there is a small amount in the upper part of the whole picture, and the shadow falls on the lower part and back of the cup. The transition level of light makes the picture have a soft sense of hierarchy and transparency.

Key words in today's class: transparency (that is, obvious lightness).

How to build it? In order to deepen our memory, let's review it again.

A single light source brings obvious light layering, which brings a sense of transparency to the picture.

That is, you can clearly see the process from bright to dark, and highlights and shadows are clearly visible (vernacular interpretation means that bright places are bright and dark places are dark, so don't let redundant light sources disturb the original clear and clean light level). This is a very transparent photo.

According to the above process, you can analyze the picture below yourself, feel the transition from far to near, and feel the transition from the edge of the bowl to the bottom of the bowl.

How's it going? It seems that transparency is not difficult to decipher ~ ~

The placement of airplane seats creates a sense of existence.

What kind of still life photos can make people feel harmonious and comfortable?

? It's not blunt, it makes people feel immersive? This is my understanding.

What is telepresence? Explain it in vernacular. Makes people feel as if this object is quietly placed in front of the viewer? , which is called. Where is it? .

How to create a sense of existence? Please forget this moment? Placement of seats? Should we use such a cold term? From the naked eye? To replace? Seats? .

Here are the four most commonly used viewing angles (seats).

1, your line of sight is perpendicular to the desktop, and everything on the desk can be seen at a glance.

Call it? All angles?

Here is an example.

We can imagine that the last example is that you stand and look at the desktop. At that moment, we knelt down slowly, and your sight gradually formed a certain angle with the desktop, which was between 45 degrees and 90 degrees.

Call it? High angle?

Here is an example.

3. If you squat for a while, your legs may get sore, so find a stool to sit down. At this time, the viewing angle is lower, and the angle between the line of sight and the desktop is getting smaller and smaller, ranging from 0 to 45 degrees.

Call it? Low angle?

Here is an example.

4, the last seat, can be similar to imagine putting the camera on the desktop. At this time, the line of sight is parallel to the desktop.

Call it? Zero angle?

Here is an example.

Today's key words: telepresence

Know each other? Full angle, high angle, low angle, zero angle? After four common seats, which angle do you think can bring the strongest sense of presence?

What do I usually use? High angle? And then what? Low angle? . This is also the most consistent with the world that the naked eye sees every day. After all, few people always lie prone on the table or lean their faces against the table to watch.

Of course, it is precisely because of the rarity of overlooking (full angle) and fitting (zero angle) that the pictures taken from these angles (seats) are always a bit unique and unique. How to use each seat reasonably depends on your personal preference behind the camera.

According to the above introduction, please observe the perspective of the following two pictures, one is high angle and the other is low angle, and feel the restoration effect of these two angles on the scene.

Only the perspective is different, there is no difference between good and bad. Each position brings a different sense of presence. For a still life photographer, it is a good start to master their different characteristics and find and choose the position that best suits their daily perspective.