Keep it manual and don’t be fooled by intelligence. Discussion on the application of small DC

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The card machines on the market today are becoming more and more intelligent. They not only have rich scene options, but also can automatically configure relevant data settings corresponding to the relevant shooting environment. , and even many cameras have the function of automatically detecting and selecting the corresponding scene mode. In addition, the function of portrait beautification, automatic detection of blinks, and smile recognition function? All these things, increasingly intelligent cameras can help us do. More and more, but when you leave everything to your digital cameras, have you ever thought that they have done so much for you, but accidentally took away the joy of photography from you? Machines are created by human intelligence. Speaking of machines, it is inevitable to think of more and more movies in the film industry about machines that become too intelligent and attack or even enslave humans. The movies are bloody and absurd, but humans do rely too much on intelligence.

As for cameras, there are many small cameras with rich manual functions. Some people say that people who have relied on the AUTO gear for a long time will never know the big ones. You can’t appreciate the fun brought by aperture. In fact, you can also take beautiful photos in other people’s hands. All you need is a little bit of thinking and manual control.

Then, put the camera in your hand. Set the mode dial to M and let us enjoy the pure joy of photography.

Card camera mode dial

If you want to use the manual function of your digital camera, you may want to turn it over. Open the camera manual that you have never studied carefully before, and learn about your favorite camera from beginning to end.

The unfamiliar faces we will see are probably the following: ?EV?, ?White Balance?, ?ISO?, ?Metering?. The ones we don’t often use on the camera’s mode dial are: ?P?, ?A?, ?S?, or ?T?, ?M?. The letter expressions are slightly different, but they are generally the options of program, aperture priority, shutter priority, and manual.

Digital camera related parameters

1. Exposure compensation

2. ISO sensitivity adjustment

3. White balance adjustment

4. Metering

1. EV is exposure compensation. This is an exposure control method. When the shooting environment is dark and you need to increase the brightness, but you do not want the flash to be involved, you can compensate for the exposure and increase the exposure appropriately to make the picture brighter. When shooting in a solid color environment, be careful. ? Principle.

2. ISO (International Standards Organization), here refers to the sensitivity of the photosensitive element to light, also called sensitivity. The value of increasing the sensitivity is suitable for darker or darker conditions. Shooting in an environment with insufficient light, but at this time, the picture noise will also increase with the increase of sensitivity, and the fineness will be greatly reduced. Therefore, it is best to turn on the flash when the light is extremely insufficient. If the environment does not allow the use of flash, consider it again. High sensitivity adjustment.

3. White Balance is a variable related to color. It reflects the camera’s accurate grasp of all colors through the accuracy of the camera’s representation of white. The camera white balance generally gives options such as "Auto", "Cloudy", "Incandescent", "Fluorescent", etc. We can choose the corresponding options according to different light source environments to help the camera correct the color to a more reasonable and appropriate position. But you can also try to deliberately mismatch the white balance to get a special picture tone.

4. In the metering options, the options we usually see are: "Evaluative metering", "Partial metering", "Center-weighted average metering", "Spot metering".

Evaluative metering is the most commonly used metering mode and is widely used in a variety of scenes from landscapes to snapshots. Average the brightness of the entire screen.

Evaluative metering

Partial metering measures the brightness of the gray circular part. The metering range is relatively narrow. Can be used to take close-up portraits.

Partial metering

Center-weighted average metering is similar to the partial metering mode, but also reacts to surrounding light. Suitable for when the subject is in the center.

Center-weighted average metering

Spot metering only measures the brightness within the gray circle. It can be used in scenes with strong backlighting where you want to meter only the brightness of people's faces or other smaller objects.

Spot metering

Using shutter priority mode, we can set the shutter data independently, and the camera will give an appropriate aperture size based on the set shutter value to obtain good photos. Autonomous adjustment of shutter speed will bring different feelings to the picture. For example, when shooting night scenes, a long shutter time can create the effect of flowing light and shadow, and when shooting rainy scenes, a short shutter time can clearly show the water droplets falling from the sky.

Using aperture priority mode, we can set the aperture size independently, and the camera will give a corresponding shutter speed according to the set aperture value to obtain good photos.

Manually adjusting M means that the user can completely set the aperture and shutter values. It has great flexibility. The photographer can set the most appropriate aperture and shutter according to the needs of the environment and the subject matter being expressed.

Some simple tips are still crucial when shooting manually.

1. Use telephoto for portraits

Because the lens will produce a certain degree of distortion when shooting at wide angle, making things that are closer appear rounder, so when shooting portraits at wide angle, people will often be out of focus. The result is round and round. For the modern aesthetics that considers thinness to be beautiful, we need to take pictures of people who are thin to be considered good-looking. In comparison, telephoto can more realistically reproduce the outline of a person's face. And the short depth of field of telephoto can help us purify the background and highlight the subject we want to express. However, if you want to take a more cute portrait, you can also choose wide-angle shooting.

Telephoto shooting

Wide angle shooting

2. Use wide angle to shoot landscapes

When we go to famous mountains and rivers, we marvel at the beauty of nature. With extraordinary craftsmanship, I raised my camera and wanted to treasure this beautiful scenery forever. At this time, we naturally hope to cover more beauty without missing the rare scenery, so the wide-angle depth of field is enough to cover all the details of this beautiful scenery, and the picture is sharp and clear.

Wide-angle scenery pictures

3. Find a place to be fixed

When shooting night scenes, the camera shutter time is generally longer, and most of us are not ?Cactus? It is impossible for the hand holding the camera to remain stable without shaking for a long time. So at this time we need auxiliary equipment such as a tripod to help us stabilize the camera. However, not everyone has a tripod, so when we don’t have a tripod around us, we can use walls, tabletops, tree trunks, or even railings as auxiliary materials to lean our camera on to keep it stable.

Night scenes shot with slow shutter speeds

Smart use of macro and zoom to create a SLR effect with extremely short depth of field. When you don’t have an expensive SLR camera but want to create the short depth of field effect of a SLR, adjust the camera’s shooting mode to macro, because the macro depth of field set by the camera will be shallower than that of regular shooting, and then add zoom, We can easily get the photo effect of short depth of field.

"IT168 Evaluation Center Opinion

Although SLR cameras can be seen everywhere in the streets and alleys nowadays, those owners do not necessarily know the camera in their hands very well. When it comes to using it, it is more important to use it. It’s only half-understood. And the owners of compact phones and consumer phones are even bigger. When they go to a scenic spot, almost everyone has a small camera in their hand. The camera is no longer a rare item, but it needs to be used well. It’s not simple. While you are blindly pursuing high-end equipment, you might as well look back and see if the camera you already have has exhausted its capabilities. Maybe it has several settings that you have never touched. Options you have never dared to try. Break out of the shackles of "smart" and play with a real camera.