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Most people think that sunny days are best for taking pictures, but in fact, too strong light will affect the shooting effect. The best weather should be sunny without strong sunshine.

Regarding the composition, you can take part in the following opinions of a master:

The first taboo of composition

Shoot whatever you see, and being more anxious than anything else is the first taboo of photographic composition. There are many types of photographic composition; For example, portrait, you dated a MM as your model; After posing, under normal circumstances, you will immediately pick up your weapon and press the shutter. After posing, relatively rationally, you can't stare at someone Pose's MM and slowly study or appreciate from which angle to better show her devil-like plump figure and angel-like delicate white face. Or shoot scenery, although the composition of beautiful women and handsome men is often described as an abstract thing in poetry and songs; Therefore, the general articles about composition are too abstract and difficult to understand. I used to write a composition, but now I read it; I realized that everything I saw before was in vain. Now I will talk about composition after summing up and reflecting on what I have seen before and what I have studied. This chapter has only two purposes: practical; Simple.

Practical: It can be used after reading.

Simple: Also called simple explanation. Depth is the process, and simplicity is the final result.

How cool it is to swim and play with water in the mountains; But if you want to record the beautiful scenery in front of you, you may swim with a few kilograms of weapons in the forest path where mosquitoes are buzzing to drink your blood. At that time, your idea was probably to go home and hug your wife and children after filming. The above example is extreme. I want to make it clear that in the process of photographic composition, we must not worry. You should appreciate and interpret beauty or beauty first, and then take up arms. If what you shoot is not worth appreciating, you don't have to shoot it. Of course, there are exceptions to everything. For example, if you take a picture of a bird, when you are finished enjoying it, the bird will fly away and take an empty picture. But if you really want to shoot birds, patience is really the most important thing. Shooting birds, although first appreciate and study the bird's walking route, and then put the lens on a point on that line, press the shutter as soon as the bird flies over. If you want to shoot a bird, don't chase it with a weapon, because you are not a sharpshooter, and the weapon in your hand can only have a little impact on shy MM.

Composition is the second taboo, so don't be impatient; From now on, every time you take a picture, think for 30 seconds. If you think too much, your composition skills will naturally improve slowly, and your thinking time will gradually decrease until it reaches zero. At this time, the composition is all intuitive. Next, I will continue to talk about the composition I need to think about.

The first step of composition

Composition is the whole process of photography, and the result is that after pressing the shutter. It says that composition requires thinking for 30 seconds before pressing the shutter; But for beginners, I suggest 1-5 minutes. Because there are so many things to consider, I will list them one by one below.

1, subject and subject

What do you want to shoot; If you shoot the MM you dated, the theme is portrait and the subject is that MM. ..

2. Focus and auxiliary points

What attracts you most about what you shoot is called concentration; And the second thing that attracts you is the auxiliary point. A photo must not exceed 5 points; For example, if you date a MM, the focus is usually on MM's face and eyes or chest; And her attractive figure, jade hands, beautiful legs, foreground background and props are all auxiliary points.

3. Visually measure the distance between the focus and the auxiliary point.

With the focus and auxiliary points, it is necessary to visually observe their approximate distance; Because a photo, as mentioned above, can have several focuses;

First of all, you can consider that the average distance between focal points is almost the same angle. For example, if you take a photo of 10 people, you will definitely take it from the middle, because the distance between the focal points at this angle is the most average. );

Second, at the same time, we can also consider an angle with different distances between focal points. (For example, shoot a row of 10 people, one of whom is your wife. If you shoot from the angle of the above group photo, it is difficult for your wife to take off; So at this time, you can consider shooting from the left or right angle. Because the focal length is different, you can blur others with the depth of field, and then your wife will naturally stand out. )

4. Select the focal length

With the distance, you need to choose the appropriate focal length.

5. Evaluate the required aperture.

After evaluating the distance between focal points or choosing the focal length, you need to consider what aperture to use to control the depth of field.

6. Select the shutter and sensitivity.

Shutters are usually determined according to different apertures.

7.it's time to press the shutter.

Visually measuring the distance between the focus and the auxiliary point is the key point of composition. Let me explain it in detail.

Distance between focus and auxiliary point

The focal point and the auxiliary point produce different angles and different compositions. For example, the theme is scenery, the main body is trees, and the focus is on the branches of trees; The focus and subject are fixed. According to the first taboo of composition I mentioned above, it is wrong to shoot immediately after seeing the focus and subject. The main body of the photo is important, but the foil and the auxiliary body are equally important. Foil, auxiliary body and auxiliary point are different; It's all the same thing. The photo is flat; But as long as we pass the focus, the auxiliary point and the lens shooting point, we can achieve a good sense of three-dimensional vertical and horizontal. To find this shooting angle, the first thing to do is to find the auxiliary point outside the focus, and then move the lens shooting point according to the distance between these two points to achieve the purpose of simple, strong and clear composition. Back to the example of that tree, if the branches are the key points, then the flowers and plants under the branches can be used as auxiliary points. You can shoot branches and flowers at the same time only from a very low angle. This gives you an angle and composition. If the auxiliary point is another tree of similar size, how should I shoot it to achieve the outstanding focus? This is the problem of composition angle. Everything around the tree can be the auxiliary point of the tree, so the change of composition is infinite. What is limited is our creativity. Let me talk about the creativity of the composition.

Creativity of composition

Creativity is taking photos that others don't take; Do the opposite and be creative; For example, others stand and shoot, and you squat and shoot; When everyone is squatting, you lie down and shoot. When everyone is lying down to shoot, you dive in and shoot. In short, the photos you take are very different from others. This is called creativity. Portrait is one of the most common photography, and almost all portraits have been photographed by others, so it is necessary to rely on thinking and creativity to shoot different portraits. Speaking of portraits, there are still several compositions that are the same. Try to avoid such composition, otherwise your photos will be rated as very creative immediately. However, for new composition learners, learning and interpreting common and unified compositions is the first step. Writing, like writing an article, has several important factors, such as the beginning, middle and end of the article; As long as we know what these factors are, we will decompose other people's compositions, evaluate other people's creativity and finally improve our own compositions, and take this as the ultimate goal to conceive. Let me talk about the three elements of composition.

Three elements of composition

Before we begin, I want to explain what factors are and why they are important. For example, if you want to find a beautiful wife, the beautiful explanation in your love dictionary is: 1, in good shape; 2. Sweet smile; 3, melon face; 4, the moon eyebrow. . . . These are all factors. If you want to list, there are many factors that determine a beautiful wife. Like composition, a good composition has many factors. Here are the three most important factors in composition.

1, point

Point is the key and auxiliary point; I have talked about a little above. Point is the origin of composition. Click a little on a piece of white paper, and there will be a little; A little more, there will be 2 points, and 2 points will be on a line; Click again, and there will be three points, which are exactly a triangle. And this triangle is a solid, and the blank outside the triangle is called a virtual body. It is said that Tai Chi gives birth to two instruments, two instruments give birth to four elephants, and four elephants give birth to … finally, everything. This is the Tai Chi of composition. Dotted line, straight line, font body. How to use this to compose a composition depends on personal preferences. Generally speaking, the main points should be balanced, harmonious and concise.

2. Light

The second factor of composition is light. Points are as important as light. If the point is Tai Chi; Then light is everything. Light quality can be basically divided into eight types: hard, soft, scattered, condensed, directional, colored, strong and weak. A blank piece of paper, if it is in a place without light, no matter how many points you order, is still completely black. Therefore, a photo, in different light, can be better than the sky. Therefore, when composing a composition, we must feel the light, use the light and operate the light to achieve the desired effect.

3. Color

Light itself is colored; The color mentioned here is the color between the main focuses. There are also eight kinds of colors: nothing, talk, gorgeous, partial, positive, ratio, change and fullness. Color can control the emotion and mood of photos. Light color is gloomy, bright color is brisk, blue is cold and yellow is warm.

Theory returns to theory. Let me talk about practice.

Misunderstanding of composition

Writing is actually not difficult. Before talking about exercises, let's talk about misunderstandings.

1, don't shoot with machine guns. The weapon in someone's hand can take 10 photos a second. It's good for her that he takes this. Card, card, card. . . A second later, 10 came. MM looks at a person's envious eyes. This is the first mistake in the composition. No matter how good your composition is, 10 is still a composition. It is not good for choosing films in the future, and it is even worse for learning to compose music. This is irresponsible and unprofessional behavior.

2. Don't shoot at will, as mentioned above. Don't pick up your weapon at once when you see anything. Think for 30 seconds before shooting.

3, and according to the three major composition factors mentioned above, if the composition factors do not meet the standards, don't shoot. I'd rather not take photos than waste films.

4, try to avoid the shortcomings of ordinary composition: for example, the composition level is above average, the composition is full, and there is no prospect.

5, don't draw boundaries for yourself, forget all the rules is the best composition method.

Let's talk formally about the practice of composition.

Composition practice

Composition cannot be separated from a point. With a point, it must be connected. Unless the point is one, a point cannot be a good composition. So the composition starts from a point, and now many messy lines can form many figures in so many lines, and with the effect of light and shadow, the figures become three-dimensional. I always say that the composition should be concise, but it is concise to have those complicated things in simplicity. Simplicity stems from complexity. My personal suggestion for composition practice is: after determining the focus, shoot from different angles. There is one key point, but there can be many auxiliary points. In practice, we must achieve one key point and multiple auxiliary points. Although I only say a little, which is more abstract, what I want to say is all. The connection between points is too messy, which is not good. There is no connection between points, let alone addition. Art composition can ignore light, shadow and color; However, light, shadow and color are the basis of photographic composition, so no matter how good the light is, the composition is useless. What is the bad light? There is nothing wrong with light. You can shoot in any light. Light, like water, can carry a boat or overturn it. Then the color. Color can be completely ignored in black-and-white photography, but the brightness of one color is different from that of another different color. Therefore, even in black and white photography, color can not be ignored. And color photography needs the existence of color more. Color is not natural and can't be retrieved in the future. It depends on the composition. It depends on the consideration of focus, the choice of angle and the control of light before shooting.

To further improve the ability of writing, it is not enough to have technology, but also to have artistic accomplishment. Maybe you are not interested in oil painting, Chinese painting, sketch and other fine arts paintings, but it is absolutely necessary to study their composition methods for you to improve your composition in photography in the future. As for the black photography promotion class: the study of composition simply ends here.