15 simple skills of street shooting (2)

If you can get people's permission to shoot, remember that you can also instruct them to shoot. Generally speaking, let them move to a simpler background and try to get them to make some interesting gestures.

How to guide? Talk about their styling accessories, such as sunglasses, hairstyles and watches, and then ask them? Where did you buy it? When they start talking, they will naturally do hand movements, and then you should shoot. You can even do some physical contact, relax your vigilance during the interaction and look for better shooting opportunities.

Do you think it is the same as street shooting? Realism? What should I do if I violate the attribute? But street shooting should create your unique vision, not just strive for objectivity (leave these to journalists and documentary photographers).

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"One more time"

Sometimes, you observe some interesting gestures, movements or actions, but you can't catch them at the first time. You can ask politely. Can you do it again?

For example, when filming this man, his girlfriend just wiped his sweat. This action is very interesting. He asked: Can you do it again? She did so, so that she took the ideal photo.

Pay attention to polite negotiation and don't try to force others to do it.

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"Good at what? Fishing? 』

It can be said that it is the most classic trick in street shooting skills: finding the potential background and waiting for the subject to enter the front picture. Trap pre-composition, hope anglers.

Select the background (curtain wall, billboard, etc.). ) and keep parallel, waiting for people or other suitable subjects to pass through the middle.

Why do you call it that? Fishing? Technology is like fishing-you may wait for a long time and get nothing, but you may gain a lot. Never guess, the only secret is patience.

"shoot the front"

Another misunderstanding is that many photographers don't shoot or don't want to shoot the front of the characters. They prefer shooting from the side.

But if you want to make the core of the work more attractive and powerful-don't hesitate to shoot it in front. When shooting, it is likely to hit the crowd, but especially for wide-angle banners, it is even more necessary to shoot like this. The wide-angle front makes the audience feel more substituted, just like being there.

On the premise of ensuring safety and traffic, stand in the middle of the pedestrian street, wait for the crowd to come to you, take a photo head-on, and then move to another place to continue the next head-on meeting.

"creative depth"

To make the photos more interesting, try to organize the foreground elements.

It is suggested to manually select the focus point, control the distance, focus on the background in advance, and then bring people and things into the space, and do a good job in three levels: foreground, middle and background.

"looking for tips"

If you are not interested in shooting people, you can try to play concept street shooting, focusing on lines, styles and materials.

Are you online? City scenery? You can give full play to your theme, find elements for old buildings and old areas, and make your works more emotional.

"Leave blank"

Sometimes it's good to start with minimalism, using the blank space in the photo to provide the theme? Breathe? In addition to space, it also allows the audience to focus on a single theme.

When should I use blanks? Very intuitive, as long as you think the picture is crowded, use the framing to leave as much space as possible.

On this basis, in fact, more changes can be added to the blank area, such as taking shadows as the constituent elements of the blank area. For example, when shooting the sunrise and sunset, we should control the exposure moderately, increase the proportion of the dark parts of the picture, and use the sunlight and the illuminated scenery to stand out.

"control exposure area"

This is an approximately orderly technique. Compared with the above-mentioned blank space with shadow, it is just the opposite here. The main body is close to the light source, and after metering, the illuminated part is controlled by dimming at 1-3 level. In the sharp contrast between light and shade, the subject stands out as if it were illuminated by a spotlight.

"guiding line"

Line elements can be seen everywhere indoors and outdoors, such as streets, light fences and park avenue.

Working with the last one? Fishing? Shooting method: find a suitable angle in front of the background of the line element and wait for the subject to enter the mirror.

"frame subtraction"

One last point: Deciding what to move out of the frame is more important than deciding what to put in the frame.

When shooting, you should be conscious in your mind: are there any unnecessary things in the picture, and are there any disturbing things in it? What to leave and what to go?

Remove the elements from the frame until they can't be subtracted, and the rest is the soul of your photo.

? A good movie can't be made at once.

Good movies can't be made according to a rule.

Shoot more and try more.

Break the routine and open a new world of street shooting