What are the night shooting skills?

Lead: The most fascinating part of night scene and morning and evening photography lies in the subtle changes of light and shadow. Night scenes are also photographers' favorite shooting materials. What are the shooting techniques for night scenes? Let me tell you!

What are the night shooting skills? Selection of photographic equipment

Because night scenes and dawn scenes belong to low light sources, if you want to take a long exposure shot, you must first prepare a stable tripod, otherwise it is easy to take a blurred image; As for the choice of pan-tilt collocation, it is suggested that spherical pan-tilt collocation is better, because spherical pan-tilt is not only convenient for photographers to control quickly, but also helpful for composition control. In addition, cable playback is also an indispensable auxiliary tool, which can not only effectively avoid the instantaneous vibration caused by pressing the shutter, but also master the required exposure time through the B shutter function, making it easier to create images. As for the gradient filter, it is used for exposure balance.

Tripod, gradient anti-reflection mirror and cable play are all indispensable auxiliary equipment for shooting morning and night scenes.

Night shooting skills? Make full use of manual function

Because night scenes and twilight scenes belong to low light sources and Gao Fancha scenes, if you shoot with automatic focusing (AF), you will often lose focus. At this point, you must switch to manual (MF) mode to overcome the out-of-focus situation. The manual focus control mode is quite simple. Photographers only need to switch MF mode, aim the focal length of the lens at infinity, and then turn the focus ring back a little bit to achieve the purpose of focusing. If they feel uneasy, they can take an image and then watch it locally by using the zoom-in function of the camera to avoid the problem that the image is out of focus. In addition, if the camera has built-in LiveView real-time preview function, it can also be used to confirm the focus.

MF manual focusing function can not only focus accurately in poor light environment, but also save electricity.

Night shooting skills? Should the noise suppression function be turned on when taking a small step in photography?

Long exposure is a common shooting technique for shooting night scenes or twilight. Generally speaking, as long as the principle of exposure balance is well grasped, it is theoretically possible to take an ideal image, but there is a potential crisis of high noise behind the beautiful image, because the camera will produce a lot of noise in addition to high sensitivity, in fact, long-term exposure will also produce noise. If the camera has built-in noise suppression function, it is best to turn it on at the same time when shooting. This can ensure the purity of the image, but it should be noted that in the process of noise suppression, the original layers and details of the image may be erased at the same time, which is also one of the key points that photographers must consider before using this function.

Night shooting skills? Select the appropriate exposure mode according to the subject.

When shooting at night, you must use the exposure mode correctly according to the shooting target in order to shoot the ideal image in your mind. Generally speaking, if you just want to take a few photos at night as a souvenir, you can use automatic or P (program) exposure mode, but if you want to take a charming image with hazy aesthetic feeling, you'd better use aperture priority (AV), shutter priority (TV) or manual exposure mode (M), because the image effect can be changed more through manual control.

Different shooting modes can present different aesthetic feelings of images.

Night shooting skills? Determine the appropriate aperture value according to different forms of expression.

By using the aperture size, various image changes can also be transformed at night. For example, when the aperture is small, because the focusing range is wide, it is easier to take a large-area clear image when it is used for night shooting, and it can also capture the starlight effect from a single light source; As for the larger aperture, because the focus range is relatively small, it is easy to take a blurred image in front or behind, which can make the image present a unique hazy feeling, especially in the light. However, it should be noted that the large aperture is not suitable for shooting large scenes, but more suitable for shooting short stories or local photography, so as to fully show its charm. Generally speaking, various brands of large aperture lenses are very expensive, but only F 1.8 series lenses are the cheapest, starting from NT$ 3,000 on average, and you can enjoy large aperture shooting at a low price.

Use aperture size to express different image artistic conception.

Night shooting skills? Express the concept of photography based on slow shutter.

In addition to the fun of shooting with a large aperture, the slow shutter can actually create a different visual effect. Because the slow shutter can capture the instantaneous light and shadow lines, it can inject a unique vitality into the night scene problem. Take the car track scenes that ordinary players often shoot as an example, which is the expression of slow shutter. Although the shooting skill is not high, it can give the image a completely different feeling. Generally speaking, as long as the aperture is reduced to F 1 1? F 16, and the shutter is controlled at 4? 8 seconds, and then correct the shutter time according to the captured image. However, it should be noted that due to the complexity of the urban night light source, the tapered mirror can be used to assist in the correction when shooting, effectively avoiding the local darkening or overexposure of the image.

Taking pictures of buildings at night can take pictures of vehicles on the road together, which can add a lot of color to the general street view.

Night shooting skills? The charm of overlooking the night scene

Overlooking the night view of the city is also a good subject for framing. Generally speaking, as long as you find a building in the city and shoot it from top to bottom, you can shoot an image similar to the one on the right, but it is not as simple as you think, because most buildings can only be shot indoors, so you should not only consider the reflection of indoor light sources, but also take a proper shooting angle to make the image perfect. In addition, if the environment permits, it is suggested that the lens should be shot close to the glass to avoid reflection.

Night shooting skills? Sunrise and sunset are not clear.

You can know the difference between sunrise and sunset with the naked eye, but it is difficult to distinguish the photos taken by the camera. But through the adjustment of different white balance, the image will have different color temperature changes, and of course the imaging effect will be very different. Generally speaking, to make the image have an atmosphere similar to that in the morning, you can take more photos of the sky to brighten up exposure value. As for highlighting the dusk effect, you can make the sky slightly underexposed to modify the orange-red part and increase the silhouette effect, which can produce wonderful image changes.

Through different shooting techniques and exposure control, the effect of sunrise and sunset can be changed wonderfully.