How to shoot a portrait of a slow door at night?

Lead: Decreasing shutter speed is a common skill in shooting night scenes. Let's take a look at how to shoot a portrait at night.

Key skills:

1. It is difficult to find a suitable shooting scene under the live light, so the slow door portrait shooting is limited.

2. The speed of the slow door should be controlled well: it will explode if the exposure time is too long; If it is too short, there will be no light and shadow effect, and the ideal effect can be obtained by debugging slowly on site.

Under normal circumstances, outdoor lights and flashlights must be brought.

Shooting idea: a group of fashion films reflecting the nightlife of women in urban workplaces.

Shooting environment: in front of the hotel, on the main road.

Pre-preparation: outdoor lighting and flash.

Shooting parameters: Canon 5d markII F3.5 1/3 seconds focal length 57mm flash-free ISO 100.

Flowing light:

Dynamic light is to shake the lens quickly after pressing the shutter when shooting. Because it is a long exposure (1/3 seconds or longer), the scene light source is still exposed at the moment of shaking the lens, forming a dynamic light effect.

Control light:

The first is spot metering. When the environmental exposure achieves the desired effect, it is necessary to fill the light for the characters according to exposure value. Outdoor lights or small flashlights are necessary. In order to control the light intensity, you should bring a soft box. For this group of works, I used Guangbao 500 watt outdoor lamp and a strip-shaped soft box. Because the power is adjusted to the minimum, the light output is still too large, so I flash the outdoor light at the ground to fill the light for the characters through the reflection of the ground to ensure the unity of the exposure of the characters and the environment.

Frequently encountered difficulties:

Due to the complexity of the scene light, the constant influence of crowds and traffic, and the constant adjustment of the light output and angle of exposure value and outdoor lighting in different scenes, it is necessary to shoot quickly and with rich experience.

Latest version:

Later, few adjustments were made, but the overall contrast between light and dark and dark tones were strengthened.