Outdoor photography skills

Now more and more people tend to go out of the indoor studio and shoot outdoors. Do you know the skills of outdoor photography?

First, the focal length aperture sensitivity of outdoor photography

Many photographers don't have professional metering equipment, but this is not very important. If you don't know what kind of exposure intensity should match the lighting conditions on site, you can try to use the F 16 criterion. This standard is very interesting, that is, when the camera is set to Av aperture priority in broad daylight, the aperture value and shutter speed of F 16 will be the reciprocal of the ISO sensitivity you set. This is of great help to learn manual M files in the future.

The focal length problem is often a difficult problem for photographers. If you have multiple lenses with different focal lengths, whether zoom or fixed focus, what would you choose if you were asked to give a focal length to the current portrait at one time? In fact, this is a matter of creative intention. Wide-angle telephoto can be used to shoot portraits, and wide-angle telephoto can be used to shoot landscapes, because wide-angle telephoto can accommodate more scenery in the field of vision, so that people can be placed in the scenery and have a sense of beauty that is integrated with nature. Medium telephoto is more popular because it can create beautiful blur effect.

Generally speaking, if we want to make good-looking movies outdoors, it is very necessary to shoot in RAW format. Often taken photos, because of the lack of post-correction steps, feel not as good as the master's. RAW is the maximum tolerance and detail of nondestructive recording photos. When using PS or LR adjustment, you only need to make enhancement changes in color, and generally you can have excellent films. So don't be discouraged when the photos you take in the camera always feel unsatisfactory. You can get it back later, and it is more important to make a good composition in the early stage.

If you don't plan to be friends later, use the direct photo setting that can be provided in the machine flexibly. I prefer VI (bright color) in photo style, because the color difference of camera LCD is always different from that on computer. You see the expected color on the LCD, but it is not bright enough.

Second, automatic exposure is usually unreliable.

Outdoor photography, you will encounter another big problem is the lack of light. "Backlight is a bad face" and "The photo is gray" are all problems that any photographer who seeks the truth of photography has encountered. First of all, the first point I want to say is that the camera's automatic metering mode can't solve 90% of the shooting scenes. Most automatic metering modes are only suitable for large landscapes that are already beautiful.

About the choice of shooting time. Because we go out to take pictures, if we plan our trip, we can only adjust it according to the local light changes. If it is purely our own outdoor photography practice, we must choose an afternoon near dusk. Moreover, the sunshine changes very quickly at night, so we should pay close attention to the most beautiful and softest light for only about an hour.

The so-called use of light is actually the usual smooth surface, backlight, side light, side light, side backlight, top light and bottom light. But it's not that complicated. The most common are top light, side light and backlight. Because a lens has 360 angles to choose from, and many times if it is sunny, it is not the background we want. At this time, there is a choice-either let the face of the character be exposed correctly, or let the background be exposed correctly, which is what we often call the large light ratio. The author's approach is to keep the bright part and discard the dark part, because the details of the dark part can be retrieved later, but the bright part can't.

And we want to make the photos more beautiful and durable. In addition to choosing "light", we can also combine shadows. In short, not all characters are exposed to light. This kind of environment generally appears in places with high-rise buildings or dense forests. What we need to do is to accurately expose the skin of the characters (spot metering). It doesn't matter if the environment is dark, because what we want is an effect of alternating light and dark, which makes the photos look more photographic.

Thirdly, the use of filters should not be underestimated.

Many friends who come into contact with photography don't like to buy one or more filters. On the one hand, they think the cost is not as good as that in the camera. On the other hand, they think that filters can be completely replaced by later efforts. There is indeed too much controversy about filters, but the author's point of view is that if you don't play with filters, your photography will lack a color.

When the filter is time to buy a camera, the merchant will introduce it to you. The most common filter is UV mirror, which has pure protection function. Our "series photography course of the truth man" gives you a popular science lesson, and inferior UV mirrors will damage the image quality. As long as you are a friend who loves photographic equipment, you won't add it, because if the lens is really broken, the difficulty of taking out the UV mirror may make you unforgettable.

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Any photographer must have two irreplaceable filters: a neutral mirror and a polarizer. Medium gray mirror is used to play with slow shutter, which is very practical for large aperture lens in big sunlight. The polarizer is the CPL filter you usually hear. Even in the northern region where the haze weather is extremely serious, it is always blue sky and white clouds. Moreover, CPL filter is frequently used in photographers' outdoor scenery photos with high saturation, because it can eliminate polarized light in light, and bright colors are king. So if you think your landscape photos are not as good as the master's works, maybe there is only one CPL filter between you.

So some people will say, I don't need a filter, because PS can do anything. I can't deny this view, but I think what can be done well in the early stage should not be dealt with as much as possible in the later stage. If you say PS is powerful, of course it is. Everyone just made a CG masterpiece out of nothing with pixels. What else can't PS do? Only in this case, what is the significance of photography?

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