How to take pictures at the seaside

Lead: We all yearn for freedom and nature, but we are often bound by work and time and have to live in the foggy city, so every opportunity to go out for a walk is especially cherished. Short-distance travel has gradually become the most realistic and convenient way for people to travel. Let's start in plain clothes and embrace the sea. Recording this different life requires the following shooting skills, which I hope everyone can remember.

First, simple but not simple equipment

If you travel, you need to bring one or two excellent lenses, such as Canon EF 16-35mm f/2.8L II USM and EF 24-70mmm f/2.8L II USM, which cover both the wide-angle end and the telephoto end, and the imaging quality is excellent. It can be said that Canon EOS 5D Mark III camera plus EF 16-35mm f/2.8L II USM and EF 24-70mm f/2.8L II USM lens can basically meet most shooting needs during travel.

Second, a simple and magical filter.

How to take more tasteful and unique photos during the trip? The use of filters is very important, especially at the seaside. We are used to the normal exposure time when shooting at ordinary times, and the photos taken are also the visual habits of ordinary people. How to break this photo style? It's simple. Try more filters. For example, the medium gray density mirror, its function is to reduce the amount of light entering the lens, thus effectively extending the exposure time of the shutter and realizing slow door shooting. In the following photo, you first fix the camera with a tripod and install a mirror with medium gray density on the camera lens, which effectively slows down the shutter speed of the camera. The camera's metering should be based on the distant sunset. Adjust the long exposure time according to the data provided by the camera exposure meter. When everything is ready, let the model move quickly. Press the shutter at the moment of her movement, and the exposure time of 3.2 seconds will make the model form a virtual movement in the photo. Using good filters will make your photos very lively and interesting.

Camera: Canon EOS Mark III aperture: 5 shutter: 3.2s sensitivity: 100 Photographer: Jiang

Third, keen and insensitive expectations.

During the journey, we will encounter many wonderful pictures, but we often don't have time to take out our cameras to record the wonderful moments. Whenever we see the photos of those excellent photographers, we ask ourselves? How did they get it? This requires photographers to develop the ability of photography prediction. In other words, when you are shooting, you must first understand the object you want to shoot. What is he doing? What's his next move? In this way, you can have enough time to make full preparations for photography. The famous street photographer Bresson once suggested? A decisive moment? This theory requires photography not only to learn exposure and composition, but also to master a kind of foresight. When the shutter is pressed, the subject can be reasonably arranged in a certain position in the picture to form the most harmonious and appropriate relationship with other elements in the picture. The leaping teenagers echo each other with the surging tide, adding a dynamic momentum to the whole picture. In addition, backlight shooting makes the sunlight in the background as the light source for metering, which makes the young people being photographed form a semi-silhouette effect and stand out more prominently on a bright sea.

Camera: Canon EOS Mark III aperture: 8 shutter: 1/400 sensitivity: 100 Photographer: Jiang.

Fourth, unique but not single background.

Whenever we see a good scenery, we will take out our camera and shoot it in a hurry, but the photos we take are always unsatisfactory. Why? When you are choosing a good subject, don't rush to shoot at once, but observe as much as possible. Observe the foreground, background, light and other factors of the subject. Simple foreground and background are beneficial to highlight the subject with the greatest effect and express the photographer's intention to the greatest extent, so you should try to eliminate elements unrelated to the picture. Putting the distant figure on the horizontal line, he forms a point in the picture, which meets the distant sea level, so that the lines of the sea level intersect with the distant human body, and such a meeting point will greatly attract the viewer's vision. A telephoto lens can be used here, which can effectively compress the space and increase the rhythm of the photo.

Camera: Canon EOS Mark III aperture: 8 shutter: 0.6s sensitivity: 160 Photographer: Jiang.

5. Natural and unnatural light

When shooting environmental portraits at the seaside, we must pay attention to the choice of light, because there are not many lights available in the seaside studio. Under normal circumstances, sunlight is a kind of overhead light, so when you shoot, in order to highlight the three-dimensional sense of the characters, you should let one side of the subject's face be illuminated and the other side be backlit, which will make the characters look strong. You choose a wide-angle lens to shoot from above, which can effectively stretch the space, exaggerate the arm of the foreground object and make the picture feel deep. The sunlight just shines on the subject's cheek, but the chin is in the shadow, which makes the subject more stereoscopic and spatial. Pay attention to the direction and size of the shadow when shooting.

Camera: Canon EOS Mark III aperture: 8 shutter: 1/500 sensitivity: 250 Photographer: Jiang

Six, the common and clever use of props

When traveling and shooting, you often encounter many special scenery, such as in the evening. At this time, you need a stable tripod, and you will find it will be of great help to your shooting. In the photo below, a group of fishermen are fishing on the beach, and the waves come up from time to time. The sunset glow in the distant sky reflects the clouds, and the picture is very beautiful. When you shoot, you should highlight the flow of the waves. At this time, the significance of tripod is very obvious. You can stabilize the camera on a tripod, reduce the aperture and sensitivity of the camera, and then add a mirror with medium gray density in front of the camera, which can slow down the shutter speed of the camera and prolong the exposure time of the camera, so that the flowing waves will form a virtual shape on the photo, forming a feeling of swimming, adding a strong dynamic force to the photo, echoing the static state of the distant sky, and combining static and dynamic to make the photo more varied. Tripod doesn't seem to be used much at ordinary times, but in order to stabilize the camera, the slow door effect is essential.

Camera: Canon EOS Mark III aperture: 8 shutter: 1.3s sensitivity: 200 Photographer: Jiang

Seven, objective and sharp exposure

As a good photographer, we should cultivate our awareness of exposure. As a photographer, this is a matter of experience. Under what circumstances, what kind of exposure to use, how many files to add or how many files to subtract, these all need long-term experience accumulation to get. The scene of the photo below is in the evening, on the vast sea, where several ships are quietly parked. The distant sky is dyed red by the sunset, while the clouds in the nearby sky are very imposing. After a lot of shooting, you will have a good sense of latent image. Because it is at night, the contrast of the image is too great. If exposed according to the brightness of the sea surface, the whole picture will be too bright and the details of clouds in the sky will be lost. Therefore, you should expose according to the brightest part of the sky, increase the exposure appropriately, so that the details and levels of the bright part of the scene are well preserved, and the original momentum and tone are also preserved to form a better photo.

Camera: Canon EOS 5D Mark III aperture: 5.6 shutter:1125 sensitivity: 100 Photographer: Wang Bocheng.