Night photography skills

Lead: Night shooting and portrait shooting are hot in recent days, and night shooting is a measure of the level of mobile phone cameras. Next, let's take a look at some night photography skills.

Many night photos are made up of dark sky and beautiful lights. In fact, the dark sky can be replaced by a beautiful sunset. In order to make the picture look no longer gloomy and dark, it is particularly important to choose the ideal shooting time. Traditional photography mostly uses double exposure (once at sunset and once after dark) to create similar effects, while digital SLR mostly does not have the function of multiple exposure due to technical differences. Even so, photographers can still get similar effects with digital SLR cameras. The days in summer are longer than those in winter. Choose the summer evening, shoot the night scene before dark and after turning on the light, and catch the moment when the weather changes to complete the creation. All you have to pay is a long wait and a little patience.

Night photography skills at sunset, shoot the night view of Hong Kong Island on a cruise ship.

Shoot the night view of Beijing at sunset from the windows of residential buildings.

In the Guggenheim Museum in the industrial city of Bilbao, Spain, night photos are taken very accurately.

Shoot the night view of the corner building of the Forbidden City in Beijing at the best time for night view shooting.

Creation of silhouette at night

Architectural photography does not stick to a pattern in the expression of architecture. When the overall effect of the subject is tall and strong, the photographer can find the best shooting angle and impression by changing the angle. When the building has a hollow, complex and changeable network structure, photographers can filter out details, textures, colors and other information through specific shooting techniques and focus on their sense of spatial form.

For the latter, the expression of outline is the most practical. After you can skillfully use the exposure method, it is not difficult to produce the silhouette effect. In order to get a more perfect effect, the photographer needs to choose a beautiful background to set off the beauty of the building as a silhouette, and the sunset can take this responsibility as one of various weather conditions. Photographers need to wait for the right shooting opportunity to ensure that the building can really produce the ideal silhouette effect when the sunset background is perfectly presented, and the exposure at this time should be subject to the sunset. Using the right techniques at the right time will produce the ideal shooting effect.

This photo was taken after sunset, when the sky was still bright and most of the scenery on the ground could be seen clearly. At this time, the scene photographed by naked eyes is not night scene, but the brightness of sky and ground scenery is much lower than that of naked eyes, which is very close to the visual impression of human eyes at night. This is the result of the dual effects of digital camera exposure latitude and exposure compensation. In the picture, the afterglow of the sky sets off the outline of the main body, and the backlight creates a high silhouette of the electric tower, which together with the houses on the ground presents an ideal picture with both light and shade contrast and tone levels. The warm color of the lights on the ground is in contrast and harmony with the blue color of the sky. Although the tower can be shot with a medium-focus lens, using a wide-angle lens is conducive to increasing the grandeur of the scene.

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Shooting the clip of the iron bridge at sunset, the background light makes the iron frame of the bridge present a silhouette form.

Show the dim lights outside the glass

It is raining! The taillight of the car in front reflected red on my window. I saw a beautiful raindrop shining softly with the taillight of the car in front.

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Usually in go on road trip, the window is transparent, so you can shoot the scenery outside the window. If it rains and the window is wet, you can't concentrate on your position. You must stop. Occasionally, you can focus on the raindrops on the window and try to shoot something different? Style in the rain? .

Represents a linear traffic flow with long exposure.

In night photos containing wide roads, you can often see continuous lines of different colors in the picture, which is full of sense of form. How is this effect achieved? Careful consideration of the exposure time principle in imaging can reveal the mystery. There is no doubt that the lines in the picture are produced by the lights of vehicles. On a two-way road, there are bound to be two colors of lines. This is because the colors of the front and rear lights of the car are different. The front of the car is usually yellow and white, and the light at the rear is red. ?

When shooting at night, we should make full use of the lights of cars to create continuous and wonderful lines. Pay attention to the continuity of the vehicle when shooting, and don't shoot at a red light, otherwise it will appear in the picture? Disconnect? . In order to make the lines formed by the light in the picture long enough, it is necessary to adjust the aperture to get enough exposure time for the shutter, and at the same time use a tripod to assist the creation.

Using the most traditional long-time exposure method, the traffic on the overpass in Beijing was photographed.

Mobile traffic photographed under Muxidi overpass

Shoot and record the light lines of buses from the side.