What are the shooting skills of documentary photography?

Documentary works record a visual experience of real life and social phenomena. Let the works spread and its connotation have a greater impact on the audience's thoughts and emotions. So what are the skills of documentary photography? Come and have a look with me!

First, the use of photographic language.

To understand and master the photography language, and use it to highlight the theme of the picture. For documentary photography, no matter what kind of lens focal length can record real scenes and events, but the perspective characteristics of different focal lengths will be more conducive to the performance of the picture. For example, the perspective of wide-angle lens can show a distinct sense of scene in documentary photography, strengthen the impact of close-range, and at the same time can accommodate more scenes, more details and more picture information.

The telephoto lens can compress the spatial perspective and narrow the perspective, and choose the background purposefully when shooting, which can make the background better set off the shooting theme. An excellent documentary photographic work should not only record the real and natural scenes and events, but also express the artistic conception and pay attention to form, and at the same time have the dual attributes of documentary and art, so that the work can have a stronger picture appeal.

Second, the grasp of instantaneous modeling

It may not be enough to express the whole event with a photo, but if the theme can be clearly expressed through wonderful pictures in a specific environment, this is also the instantaneous modeling visual image pursued by documentary photography.

Recording real events in real time is the key to documentary photography. The immediate effect is far greater than the pursuit of light and shadow and composition. Therefore, it is often impossible to force perfect composition and light and shadow effects in the middle of shooting, because the composition should be decided in an instant, capture the instant light and shadow, and press the shutter in time in order to record vivid, natural and real instant images. Therefore, although the composition may be lacking, the light and shadow may not achieve the best artistic effect, but because it is the most authentic and vivid picture, it will have a strong sense of the scene and full of life, so the photos taken will often have a strong appeal. Of course, it would be more perfect if the technical links were also in place.

Third, the mastery of snapshot skills.

Snapshot is the most typical shooting method of documentary photography. At this time, there will be certain requirements for shooting skills. You must be able to master the settings of the equipment and control the shutter speed and exposure, in order to record the event accurately and timely. Especially for indoor shooting, the combination of aperture, shutter and sensitivity is very important because of the light. At this time, we should make more use of natural light to shoot. If the flash is forcibly used to fill the light of the subject from the front, it will often cause the effect that the subject is too bright and the background is very dark, and the photos taken will be not vivid enough and lack of picture level.

Without a good grasp of photography skills, it is difficult to show expressive instantaneous images. To learn to shoot in natural light, you must have certain photography skills. For example, automatic sensitivity can improve the shooting efficiency and success rate to a certain extent, but you should pay attention to setting the upper limit of automatic sensitivity. Although opening the aperture can improve the shutter speed, it is necessary to determine whether the depth of field is appropriate, which requires continuous accumulation of experience in actual shooting.