Shooting skills of wedding photography

Wedding photography is a game of chasing light and shadow, and respecting natural light is an attitude of documentary photography. As a documentary wedding photographer, I always try to combine natural beauty with artistic beauty, make full use of natural light and ambient light to create, and leave real and precious memories for the couple.

That faint touch just outlined the elegant figure of the bride, which made this moment a little more quiet and beautiful. The choice of shooting angle is very important, and the side backlight can perfectly outline the outline of the characters, which is especially suitable for expressing the atmosphere and expressing emotions.

Advantages of natural light shooting

1. Persistent light source

The biggest advantage of natural light is its durability, which gives photographers enough time to observe the environment and people carefully and helps to stimulate more shooting inspiration. Under uniform and relatively fixed lighting conditions, the characters in the picture are more likely to have internal relations, enter a certain situation and form a complete picture story. 2. Restore the real scene atmosphere

Another advantage of natural light shooting is that it can maintain the original environmental atmosphere to the maximum extent. The greatest significance of documentary wedding photography is to respect the wedding event itself. One of the main reasons why you don't use flash easily is that when you touch the flash, you have completely changed the original scene atmosphere. Even if I can take bright and clear photos, this is not what I want.

3. It will not destroy the mood of the characters.

Using natural light to shoot can minimize the interference caused by the camera to the subject. Undoubtedly, when the flash is working, it will attract everyone's attention at the scene and naturally destroy the atmosphere at that time. In fact, what I hope is to hide myself, quietly hide in a corner, and record those sincere feelings, touching details, and quietly blooming beauty. Many newcomers will be surprised to ask me when they get the photos. When was this photo taken? It was these photos that brought them back to their wedding day, with many memories and many surprises. This may be difficult to do if the flash is used frequently.

Shooting skills under natural light conditions

1. When shooting a wedding, the most commonly used natural light is window light. This kind of light is soft and even, and the transition between light and shade is very natural. You can control the final lighting effect by adjusting the relative position of the graph and the window.

2. When the indoor light is insufficient, it is recommended to choose the aperture priority mode and set it to a larger aperture value, so that you can pay more attention to observing the scene.

3. When the main body does not move obviously, the shutter speed can be controlled at1/30s; When the character has some actions, the shutter can be controlled at 1/60s.

4. If you want to shoot beautiful light and shadow effects in low light, you can adjust the focus mode to manual, and at the same time, your body leans against the surrounding solid objects to shoot, and the shutter can be controlled at115s, or even slower.

5. Side lighting or side backlight is the most commonly used method for indoor shooting. Under this lighting condition, the picture is bright and dark, rich in layers, which is conducive to expressing the outline of the characters and emphasizing the depth and three-dimensional sense of space.

6. Under normal circumstances, the white balance can be adjusted to automatic or daylight.

Common problems and solutions of natural light shooting

Although natural light shooting has many advantages, in practice, you will find that some natural light conditions are not ideal, and you will often encounter situations where the contrast of ambient light is too large or the light is dim and lacks focus. The core principle of solving these two problems is to subtract the image, and then we will introduce some specific processing methods in detail.

1. Silhouette and semi-silhouette pictures

When shooting a wedding, we often encounter the situation that there is a great contrast between indoor and outdoor light and we have to shoot against the light. At this time, we might as well treat the main characters as silhouettes or semi-silhouettes, which can not only increase the artistic effect and imagination of the picture, but also highlight and strengthen the main elements. The most common shooting locations are at the door and in front of the window, so attention should be paid to the selection of metering points.

2. The sense of interest brought by shadows.

When the ambient light is not ideal or too dull, you can try to use some shooting techniques to increase the interest and artistic sense of the picture. It is one of the most effective methods to seek the reflecting surface and create the symmetrical mirror effect. The bright wardrobe, glass desktop, polished metal surface and marble floor in the room can all be used as reflective elements for creation.

Application skills of natural light in wedding photography

3. Form a frame composition through shadows.

Frame structure is the most commonly used composition technique by photographers, which can effectively distinguish the pictures, form a sense of rhythm or play a role in guiding the line of sight. When the light of the scene is not good, I like to use frame composition to create a sense of visual interest, balance the contrast of the picture and highlight the main body.

Application skills of natural light in wedding photography

Application skills of natural light in wedding photography

Application skills of natural light in wedding photography

4. Clever use of mirror juxtaposition space

In the early communication, I will tell the newcomers to prepare a movable mirror, in fact, in order to take some interesting pictures. Mirror elements now seem to have become the prescribed action of wedding photography. As long as you pay attention, you will find that every photographer will have a lot of works created by mirrors. Although the technique is changeable, there is only one core principle, that is, the visual freshness brought by the juxtaposition of space.

Application skills of natural light in wedding photography

Application skills of natural light in wedding photography

5. Use color temperature difference to form color contrast.

Observing and analyzing the color temperature of different light sources at any time is a basic skill of photographers. Besides paying attention to people's emotions and the shapes of things, it is also important to analyze the various qualities of light. Especially when the indoor lighting situation is complicated, it is necessary to skillfully combine the lighting in the environment with the sunlight coming in through the window, and control their proportion and presentation form, so that the light in the picture will not appear messy.

Application skills of natural light in wedding photography

6. Use lighting to simulate natural light

Although we advocate that in documentary wedding photography, try not to use flash to destroy the original environmental atmosphere. But when the above methods are ineffective, we should pay attention to the following principles-the use of flash should be combined with natural light, follow the laws of natural light, and be integrated with natural light. Next, let's take a look at the shooting case of simulating outdoor sunshine with a flash.