What are the skills of humanistic documentary photography?

Humanistic photography has certain skills, but the most important thing is to have a pair of eyes for discovery. Humanistic photography includes history, astronomy, geography, philosophy, literature, art, archaeology, language, science and other materials. So what are the skills of humanistic documentary photography? Here, I would like to introduce you to the shooting skills of humanistic photography. Let's take a look.

Photography skills 1: shooting mode setting

When shooting outdoors during the day, due to the great difference in light and shade in different environments, aperture priority mode is usually used (news photographers may choose automatic exposure mode). In the case of no backlight, good exposure effect can be obtained by evaluating photometry, and spot photometry can be used in the case of backlight. For the focus, you can choose single-point focusing or single-point extended focusing as appropriate.

The indoor environment is usually even in light, so M mode can be used for shooting. If the lens has full-time manual focusing function, it can also be fine-tuned after focusing to make the focusing more accurate.

Photography Tip 2: Choose the right white balance.

In the case of outdoor shooting during the day, you can use automatic white balance. If you like warm colors, you can choose cloudy white balance.

Indoor shooting is not that simple. If the indoor light source is an incandescent lamp with low color and warm light, if you want to keep the warm light environment, you can use automatic white balance; If you want to weaken this yellow color, you can choose incandescent lamp mode and modify the lighting effect slightly. If the indoor light source is a fluorescent lamp with high color temperature and cold light, but the correction is relatively easy, usually automatic white balance or fluorescent white balance can get good results.

Custom white balance is the most accurate method. Prepare a piece of white paper (or grey card), fill the screen with white paper to take pictures, register the white balance information in the menu of the fuselage, and the camera will record the color temperature data under the live light environment. At this time, the white balance mode is adjusted to user-defined white balance, and the on-site color temperature can be completely corrected.

Photography Tip 3: Snap, capture the emotional temperature of the moment.

It is the practice of many photographers to capture distant images with telephoto lenses. They can take pictures of their smiles and every move away from the subject without the subject's knowledge. Because of the strong blur ability of telephoto lens, it can filter out visual interference unrelated to the theme and make the subject more prominent. However, when the space is compressed too much, it will strengthen the sense of distance between the viewer and the characters in the picture, making the photos look less vivid and friendly.

Another way of shooting is more interesting: shoot the subject at close range with a wide-angle or medium-focus lens, and then turn around and walk away. Sometimes the subject is too focused on doing his own thing to realize the existence of the photographer, which is also a good time to take a snapshot. Close-range snapshot can capture the subject's more vivid expressions and movements, and the sense of scene is doubled. The disadvantage is that it is easy to interfere with the scene and cause the resistance of the subject. Generally speaking, close-range shooting is obviously better if the relationship between the photographer and the subject can be handled well.

Photography Tip 4: Wait for the climax of the image.

Sometimes a photographer observes a scene with excellent color or shape, and only one person appears in the right position in the shadow to make the finishing touch for your image; At this time, we have to wait.

Many of Bresson's photos are like this: the characters are in the right place at the right time, which makes the whole event reach its climax at this moment and constitutes a perfect picture. This is also one of the foundations for the birth of Bresson's theory of decisive moment.

This is the humanistic documentary photography I introduced. I hope it helps you.