How to shoot family pets with iPhone?

Most families in modern times keep some pets such as cats and dogs, take photos of them and record their growth moments, which is also the daily life of most people. So how do you take photos of your pets with your iPhone? Need to master some mobile phone shooting skills and learn together.

Keep the picture simple.

The most common pets in the family are cats and dogs. They are not very big. Compared with our living environment, even large dog pets are very small. Therefore, when shooting these pets, we need to keep the picture simple to achieve the purpose of highlighting the subject.

Because iPhone shooting can't blur the messy background like SLR cameras, we need to clean up the shooting environment.

If you are indoors, throw away messy things-dirty socks on the sofa, TV remote control, toys scattered by the baby on the floor, etc. , and remove everything that might distract or add highlights to the story behind the photo.

Outside, you should also choose simple places, such as grass, sky or walls. You don't want a garbage bag next to the dog you shot, do you?

Change more scenes to shoot.

The liveliness of pets adds too much fun to us. If we just choose to shoot them on the sofa or on the floor, is the picture simple? Sure! So you need to change the scene more. I believe that cats and dogs are good "models" and can take many wonderful photos that surprise you.

You can choose to shoot the cat on the sofa. The cat's coat color matches the brown sofa to highlight the pet's posture and expression.

Choosing places where pets often haunt can make them relax and become comfortable, so home is the most common shooting scene, such as on the floor, on the sofa, in the cat's nest or on the balcony. Their touching eyes, naughty appearance when stretching, these backgrounds can be recorded.

Besides at home, you can also take photos of your pets when you go out to play, such as parks, beaches and even community streets. Are cats and dogs abnormal or particularly excited after seeing new things? Then pick up the iPhone and take photos.

Shoot in a well-lit place.

When using iPhone to shoot pets, it is best to choose sunny days, use natural light sources, and put pets on windowsills, light windows or outdoors to shoot.

Outdoor, remember not to shoot when the sun shines directly on the pet, because it will make the color of the photo look too saturated. You can choose to shoot in cloudy weather or mild sunshine. If the sunshine is really enough, you can also put your pet under a shady tree, but there will be spots where leaves fall on it, which will affect some effects.

In addition, the naughty nature of pets makes us need to set the mobile phone to a higher shutter speed, otherwise they will definitely make you take a virtual image.

When photographing pets indoors, you can choose a place near the window. Shooting through the light scattered indoors from the outside can make pets appear in the picture more clearly and obtain high-quality image quality.

Close-ups highlight the details of animal bodies.

In addition, we can also shoot pets through close-ups and show the local details of their bodies in the picture.

When taking close-up photos of pets, it is best to take photos of those pets who are resting or temporarily unable to walk, because our' iPhone' is equivalent to a fixed-focus camera without telephoto function, and we need to put the iPhone lens close to the pets to take close-up photos.

There are many close-up pictures of pets, such as their cute little heads, small ears or small claws, which are all very interesting pictures.

The golden section makes pets stand out.

Golden section composition is a very classic composition method, and it is also very suitable for photographing pets. In particular, when taking photos of full-length pets or big scenes, arrange pets in the golden section of the picture, which can highlight pets even if there are other scenes in the picture.

In addition, if you want to highlight the details of a local close-up on your pet, you can also arrange these local close-ups near the golden section.

Grab the pet's eyes.

Eyes are small windows in the hearts of all animals. When we can't perceive emotions from still animals, try to observe their eyes, from which you can guess their emotions at that time.

Therefore, when shooting animals, remember to focus on their eyes, focus on giving them the soul and the most attractive eyes, and blur the impurities in the foreground and background with a telephoto lens, which can make the photos get twice the result with half the effort.

Use the continuous shooting function of iPhone to capture the moment when animals play.

For pets, being lively and active is their nature. They are so energetic that you can't help picking up the iPhone to shoot, but if you want to solidify their natural and perfect action expressions, you can't press the shutter slowly. Because these actions may be fleeting, the success rate of photos can be greatly improved by using the continuous shooting function of iPhone to constantly capture and select the most dynamic one.

It should be noted that we should also pay attention to the composition when pressing the shutter to take a snapshot, and try to avoid the animal's head from exceeding the picture. At the same time, if it is indoors, choose a place with sufficient light to ensure clear picture quality and brightness.