How to take a good picture of the city?

The picture content of urban scenery photos is generally composed of stations, docks, bridges, streets, parks and squares. When shooting, we should choose different shooting time, light and angle according to the specific situation of the subject, and use corresponding photographic equipment, so as to reflect the different characteristics of each city artistically.

About local characteristics

Local characteristics are reflected in the famous local streets and buildings, places of interest and historical sites, customs and customs. When choosing scenery, we should pay attention to representativeness to reflect local characteristics.

About photography time and light

Choosing different shooting time can make the photographic picture produce different light effects and show different atmosphere. For example, shooting the morning light of the city, shrouded in mist, reveals vitality in the hazy, implicit and full of artistic conception. If there are some physical exercises dotted in it, it can show that there is movement in silence. When shooting street scenes, the light is soft and there are few pedestrians in the morning, which can avoid the shortcomings of crowded and messy pictures. Scenery such as parks and squares should be shot in the oblique sunlight in the morning or afternoon to obtain a wide and clear effect. In busy traffic and transportation scenes such as stations, docks, vehicle tracks and ship cranes. Backlight should be used to fully outline the scenery and attract people's attention. If you want to shoot the night scene of the city, you should choose the moment of Chu Qing after the rain, the lights shine on the ground, and the reflections of transport vehicles and other objects echo up and down in the stagnant water, so the photographic picture will be more colorful.

About shooting angle

The choice of shooting angle should be subordinate to the subject matter. If you want to reflect the grandeur of the building, you can shoot at an elevation angle or a flat angle. If you want to show a bird's eye view of the city, you should raise the shooting position and shoot at a low angle, so as to keep a certain space between the front and rear buildings, show criss-crossing streets and show the spectacular face of the city. Overhead shooting can also avoid inappropriate prospects such as people in front of the camera, traffic vehicles and telephone poles.

On the Equipment and Application of Photographic Equipment

In order to avoid deformation when shooting city scenery or tall buildings, if conditions permit, the shooting point can be raised appropriately to make the camera in a horizontal state, and it is more convenient to install the camera to take pictures from the ground glass with squares. Or you can shoot with a camera whose lens or back can be adjusted up and down. If you use a 135 camera, you'd better equip it with a zoom lens of 28- 105 mm or 50-200 mm, so that you can not only arrange more scenes, but also shoot larger images of distant subjects without being close to them.