Novice photography skills

For many novice photographers, what are the main points that can improve their photography skills in a short time? The following are the necessary photography skills for beginners that I share. Welcome to read!

Beginners must learn photography skills and try spot metering.

Although the metering function of digital cameras is very convenient now, in fact, it will still fail in some cases. Learn to use spot metering to judge the most suitable exposure value by yourself. In addition, the method of spot metering is to place the metering point where you think it needs correct exposure (usually the theme), then lock the exposure with AE-L, and then make composition, focus and take photos.

Learn to observe histograms

Don't judge whether a photo's exposure value is correct by human eye evaluation, because human eyes will make mistakes, and cameras and computer screens may also make mistakes, so the real way to judge a photo's exposure value is to look at the histogram.

Learn to use a fixed-focus lens

In addition to the high price and portability of fixed-focus lenses, learning to use these lenses can help you better understand the influence of focal length on picture compression. In addition, although the zoom lens is very convenient, the habit of using the fixed-focus lens makes you accustomed to taking two more steps to compose a picture and finding the best position to take pictures.

Familiar with different white balances

Similarly, the camera's automatic white balance function is very method and accurate, but too accurate white balance sometimes makes your work too ordinary. So it is helpful for your photography to try different white balances in different scenes and understand the effects of different white balances. Of course, you can decide the white balance later, but you have to spend more time later.

Learn to use M mode.

The three basic elements of photography, shutter, aperture and ISO, not only affect the exposure value of photos, but also affect the photo effects such as dynamic blur, depth of field and noise. M mode is a shooting mode that these three elements can be freely scheduled, so learning to use M mode is helpful to understand the influence of these three elements on the photo effects such as exposure. Of course, shooting modes such as A mode and S mode are very convenient, and M mode can be used for practice or actual combat, but it is not necessary to use it, which misses the shooting opportunity.

Try to send a photo every day.

At present, facebook, Instagram, Flickr and other online platforms can easily share personal works, so try to send one of your own works every day, so that you can get used to continuous creation and understand others' comments on your own works, so as to explore your own shooting strengths and improvements.

Generally speaking, if you want to take a clear photo, you generally need to: use a higher speed shutter to reduce the aperture from the maximum aperture by four levels; There should be a lot of light shining on the subject, and the subject should remain still; Hold the tripod steady, press the shutter gently and so on. However, even after paying attention to these, many experienced photographers still feel that the photos taken are not clear enough. Some photographers also believe that the most difficult thing to grasp when taking dynamic photos is the clarity of the photos. If you take a batch of photos with unique composition, correct exposure and true theme, but only the images are blurred, it will be disappointing. If you don't pay attention to check the reason, this phenomenon may appear again.

Improving photography technology is the accumulation of experience, and learning from the knowledge and skills of predecessors can quickly improve our photography level. In the film era, after the accumulation and convergence of countless photographers' experience, twelve simplified and most practical photography techniques have been formed. These simplified techniques will help you cope with many difficult shooting scenes.

First of all, the Sixteen Laws of Sunshine

For landscape photography, it is often impossible to obtain the best shooting effect by relying too much on the photometric results of the camera. For example, when there is a large dark field in the scene, the camera's metering system will increase the exposure, and the obtained photos will show the effect of overexposure, and the sky will become pale without any details.

At this time, if the "Sixteen Laws of Sunshine" were adopted, this would not happen. The intensity of sunlight is relatively fixed. When the camera aperture is set to F 16 and the shutter speed is set to1125 seconds (ISO is 100), you can take a landscape photo with strong colors and normal exposure. According to this rule, F/22 aperture should be used in the environment with strong reflection, such as shooting on the beach. When the light is weak, such as cloudy days, F/1aperture should be used.

Second, moonlight 1 1, 5.6 rule

The moon is the closest celestial body to us. It changes regularly. Since ancient times, those beautiful legends have made people daydream about celestial bodies all the time. At night, when you face the sky, the moon first comes into our sight. In ancient times, poets wrote poems about the moon. Nowadays, when people enjoy modern civilization, they all like to photograph the moon in their picture books.

According to professional measurement, when the full moon brightness value is EV 15, the normal visual effect can be obtained when the camera ISO is set to 100, the shutter speed is1125 seconds, and the aperture is F 1 1. In half a month's time, the exposure should be quadrupled. The exposure combination can be set to ISO 100, shutter 1/60s and aperture F5.6, and even the exposure time is nearly1sec when shooting the moon bud. In detail, it is not because of the change of their size that the brightness decreases, but because the angle of sunlight shining on the moon changes when the moon's profit and loss changes. Avoid overexposure when shooting the moon. More exposure will turn into a white circle without the feeling of the moon, so it is called the moon because it has a three-dimensional effect.

Third, the camera shake rule.

When you shoot with a camera in your hand, the shutter speed should not be less than the reciprocal of the focal length of the lens. If the shutter speed is slow, the sharpness is more likely to decrease when shooting jitter. If a focal length of 50mm is used, the shutter should be above 1/50 seconds. Only when the environment is really dark, use a flash, tripod or put the camera on a hard object to prevent jitter.

However, many digital cameras now have anti-shake function. Canon and Nikon, represented by mirror anti-shake technology, have advantages mainly in telephoto shooting ability. The effect of using mirror image stabilization in the focal length above 135mm is very obvious, and it can completely replace the three-speed safety shutter (for example, the shutter speed can reach 1/30 seconds after hand-held shooting is turned on at the 200mm end).

The anti-shake advantage of the model with anti-shake function is mainly reflected in the focal length of 50-100 mm. Take the newly released Olympus E3 as an example, it can replace the 4-speed safety shutter with this focal length, that is to say, under the focal length of 100mm, the photos taken at the shutter speed of 1/8 seconds are also worthwhile.

Fourth, the grey board rule.

Grey board is a sharp weapon for shooting. But what if I don't have a gray board on me? You can spread the back of your hand (the palm is too white, and the color of the back of your hand is close to your face) to the sun, measure the light on the back of your hand, and add another exposure.