Recording photography skills

Lead: Photography was born for recording. Its powerful vitality after its birth lies precisely in its recording function. This is incomparable or irreplaceable by other technologies or arts. So, broadly speaking, photography is recording.

First, documentary photography

Since the netizen uploaded it? Documentary works? Some of them are not documentary works. I feel that you don't know much about documentary photography, and the concept is still vague. You haven't mastered the shooting method yet. First of all, let me introduce what documentary photography is.

(1) What is documentary photography?

1. Documentary photography is a kind of photography with the main appeal of recording the reality of life. The material comes from life and reality, and truthfully reflects what we see. Therefore, documentary photography has the value of recording and preserving history and has the unique qualification as a social witness.

2. Documentary photography is an intuitive description of the social situation studied. It shows the photographer's concern and shows what changes may be needed.

3. Documentary photography is an explanatory photo to explain the relationship between people and the environment and between people and social activities.

Documentary photography, generally speaking, is a real snapshot, and an outline can also be planned in advance. For example, if you shoot a special topic, you can draw up an outline in advance to shoot it for long-term attention and shooting. Some special topics have been filmed for several years to decades, and such a large span has certain social literature value to the society.

If we deeply understand documentary photography or photography that records social life, the difference from simple documentary photography is that we strongly appeal to people's individual reporting.

Documentary photography shows the photographer's concern for the environment, respect for life and pursuit of humanity? Do documentary photographers use cold machines to record marginal scenes or intentionally or unintentionally? Ignore? In fact, photography can often become a tool to participate in social transformation through the power of images. Judging from the social background and historical absence of documentary photography, its criticism and revolution are self-evident. By-product documentary photography history is a photographer's criticism of injustice, darkness, turmoil and depression in the world? The history of recording, expressing and spreading. They use images to achieve the purpose of propaganda and agitation, and then promote social change and make the world a better place.

(2) the classification of documentary photography

By theme:

1, major event

2. People's lives

3. Social features

By motive:

1, social documentary (reporting documentary photography)

2. Cultural narrative (documentary photography)

3. Documentary humanities (diary documentary photography)

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The most precious thing in documentary photography is time. Time tells future generations that the people in the photos are gone, but the photos are still of great significance. Everyone should take more photos of people and their families around them.

Second, how to shoot the street?

How to shoot street scenes, that is, sweeping the streets, is the best way to shoot documentary works at first, which can pay attention to the things and people around us and our city for a long time. Street shooting, commonly known as street shooting and street sweeping, is a documentary shooting method to record various situations in the city and the world, which is deeply loved by urban photographers.

1. The fewer devices, the better.

It's not a good idea to take too many lenses and lights if you want to sweep the street and take good photos. These burdens will distract your observation, and when the good time for taking pictures appears, you can't attack quickly. Small numbers, side shafts, cameras with rotating screens, and even mobile phones are also sharp tools for sweeping the street and taking pictures.

2. Choose the scene of revival and activation

Don't just go to places like tourist attractions to find subjects. Although it's crowded there, it's easy for people to get up the courage to point their cameras at strangers and try to find more life and real scenes hidden under the surface. For example, start with your life and familiar environment.

3. Learn to predict the decisive moment

Learn to predict the picture that will appear, prepare the camera in advance, press your shutter and take a decisive moment.

4. Try color photography more.

Street shooting is mostly documentary. At this time, black and white photos will make the facts appear more powerful and formal, especially when news photography is shooting emergencies. However, some street shooting themes are very suitable for color photography, such as expressing a pleasant mood or objectively describing the street scene environment, and the restored colors will be more vivid, real and pleasing to the eye.

5. Discover the visual symbols on the street

Visual symbols such as billboards, signboards and graffiti on the street, if used as the background, may make your photos more street-like and different, and can also be used as the theme when there is no eye-catching shooting theme.

6. Street shooting can be very experimental.

Try diagonal composition to break the limitation of horizontal and vertical composition. Either diagonal graphics appear in the picture or tilt your camera. Street shooting is very casual, blind shooting. Shake it, zoom in and out, and let your photos experiment.

7. Change your perspective

Shooting the scenery across the street, the unique perspective will surprise people.

8. Performance

Parades and performances, as well as other entertainment activities on the street, and major events are also common scenes in street shooting.

9. Where people gather

To shoot big scenes, you should go to places where people gather, such as playgrounds, markets, performance venues, parks, sports activities, exhibitions, etc., and you can take good photos.

10. New shooting angle

Try to find a higher or lower angle to shoot, even if the head-up angle is unique, shooting down or up is easier to guide the line of sight.

The author has the spirit of humanistic care, pays attention to social themes, is observant, and has news and timeliness documentary reports. A group of very good social news documentaries will be more exciting if we can make more efforts in structure.

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After a period of practice, not only your shooting skills will improve, but also your insight into the surrounding things will continue to improve.

12. Luck is often brave.

Don't be afraid of the photographer's little resistance, be brave enough to get close to your subject and the truth, so as to shoot shocking and impactful works.

13. Light application that breaks the routine

We often try to avoid the bright spots and shadows that may be caused by direct sunlight. We should be good at breaking these conventional light applications and using different light to get better images in street shooting.

14. Stand by at any time.

Stay on standby at all times, and only those fleeting images can be captured. Hang the camera around your neck or shoulder, and if you are portable, you can put it in your pocket or the outermost part of your bag, so that you can catch the camera as quickly as possible. Automatic shift is a good idea, but if you have experience, manual exposure and focusing can also be very fast.

15. Follow the makeup

When we realize that a story is going to happen, we can take follow-up shots to make up for it until we get a satisfactory picture.

16. Fast photography and slow photography on the street

There are often moving people and cars in the street, so the shutter speed is above1125 to capture them effectively and clearly. Setting ISO to 400 can also ensure a higher shutter speed during the day. Slow shooting will make the car track at night and the illusion of moving during the day full of magic.

17. Road map

Many people have street shooting plots, not to shoot specific events, but simply to appreciate the street shooting customs of different cities and countries, and shoot street shooting from a completely objective perspective, either quiet or prosperous, with a unique charm.

18. wide-angle shooting

Exaggerated perspective will make street scenes interesting, and even use fisheye lenses.

19. communicate with subjects

Street shooting provides many opportunities to communicate with the subjects. Treat the subjects with courtesy and a smile. They usually reciprocate, and sometimes they encounter special circumstances. After their protest, you should also have a friendly attitude that is willing to delete these negatives.

20. location, location, location

The most important thing in street shooting is the choice of location. A group of musicians appeared in the butcher shop, which gave people a lot of imagination.

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