What mistakes do beginners make when taking pictures, and how to avoid them?

The videos made by some novices make the audience dizzy and at a loss. This shows that there is something wrong with beginners' photography skills and needs to be corrected. If the following problems are corrected, the video level will be greatly improved.

(a) The horizon is tilted.

Horizontal deflection is a common problem for beginners. Because the viewfinder of the camera is very small, beginners often ignore the changes of horizontal scenery such as the horizon. After the captured TV picture is played, the horizon is skewed, which makes the whole picture lose stability, and the audience will certainly not be satisfied. Horizon is the major principle of camera shooting, and it is also the basic requirement for photographers to stabilize the picture, so we can't take it lightly.

Beginners must have a correct understanding of the horizon. When shooting, you must first stand firm and stand upright; Hold the machine correctly and observe the eye position naturally; Neither high nor low, neither crooked nor oblique; We should be good at using the camera's view frame as a standard to control the vision of the image.

In addition, beginners can use a tripod. The camera is mounted on a tripod, which helps to correct the tilt of the horizon. At the beginning, scholars have some camera experience and formed a sense of vision. They can gradually give up their tripods and shoot with hand-held or shoulder-mounted cameras.

(2) Hold the machine and shake it

Shaking the phone is one of the common problems that novices make. The shaking makes the TV picture waver, the character picture seems to be sailing in the sea, and the landscape picture seems to be experiencing an earthquake. The quality of this picture is very poor, which can't meet the normal requirements of the audience. There is no doubt that camera shake is an obvious big problem in the beginner photography period, which must be resolutely overcome. Otherwise, beginners' camera skills will not be improved and their creative level will not be improved.

The reason why the camera shakes is that the novice is too rash when taking pictures, and has not developed a special standardized photo action. Therefore, photographers should be calm and natural when shooting with a camera, and the camera should be stable and there should be no unnecessary swing. This practice should be gradually standardized. Once the camera is turned on, it should be in this standard state and operate the camera with special standard actions.

In addition, beginners can use a tripod. The camera is mounted on a tripod, and the influence of camera jitter is fundamentally eliminated by control and adjustment.

At the beginning, scholars have some camera experience, formed a standardized action, and can gradually give up the tripod.

(3) The panning speed is fast.

Almost every beginner has made the mistake of translating too fast. The novice observes the panning scene through the viewfinder of the camera and feels that the speed is not fast. However, when TV plays, the image seems to move several times faster, and the audience is dazzled. This kind of problem is caused by the difference of feeling, so it is not difficult to correct it as long as the right medicine is given.

From the operational point of view, it is easy to overcome the problem of too fast translation speed. Before panning, novices should pay attention to setting the camera lens to the wide-angle position, that is, the endpoint of the zoom button W. When panning, turn the camera very slowly, so slowly that you even doubt whether it is appropriate to be so slow. It is such a slow-motion video that when it is played on TV, the audience feels that the image is moving at a medium speed.

(4) Reciprocating translation

Many beginners like to pan back and forth, perhaps because people can only see a small part of the seemingly wide scene with the naked eye. If you want to shoot a wide field of vision through this viewfinder that can only see a small part, beginners will naturally pan back and forth. However, beginners think they can see clearly, but they don't know that the audience will soon get tired of the same scenery that appears back and forth. Originally, it was right for beginners to record the vast scenery by panning. But when operating the camera, after shaking it once, don't repeat what you just recorded by shaking it back.

It is not difficult to correct the problem of reciprocating translation. As long as the photographer firmly remembers: in the panning operation, pass once and never shake back.

(5) Shake at will

Shaking at will is a common problem for impatient novices. In jargon, turning the camera quickly is called shaking. No matter who can't see clearly what the picture is when shaking, investigate the reason of shaking, because if you look at it with the naked eye, you can only see a small part. If you want to shoot through this viewfinder, you can only shoot a part of the scene at a time. When gongs are played here and drums are played there, impatient novices will naturally turn their cameras to record quickly. But the novice feels that the turn is timely, but he doesn't know that the video is so confusing and dizzy.

When rotating the camera to record, the speed should be slow. "You can't eat hot tofu in a hurry." If you really can't wait any longer, adopt another method. Press the stop button of the camera first, stop recording here, then turn around immediately, aim at the scene there and start recording again, and record the scene there in time. Just like the example given above, recording the big gong here first, and then recording the big drum there, can take care of both sides, and the picture is also very good. An impatient novice can correct the bad habit of shaking the camera at will as long as he is careful and step by step.

(6) Too much push and pull

Nowadays, cameras have zoom lenses, so it is really convenient for photographers to push and pull. So many novices push and pull aimlessly when recording, which makes the whole picture full of noise and commotion.

Photographers should control the frequency of push and pull when recording, and avoid the practice of pulling first and then pushing or pushing first and then pulling. Push after pulling is the process of pushing the lens as soon as it is pulled to the full wide angle. Push-pull is the process of pushing the lens to the end of the long focal length lens and immediately switching to pull the lens. Push lens and pull lens are directly connected, just like blacksmiths used to burn fire and pull bellows. Once and for all, mechanical repetition makes the picture turbulent and can't create good results. If the story must be represented by moving pictures, the photographer can add a shaking lens, or move the lens between the push lens and the pull lens to avoid contact with the opposite moving lens.

(7) The gap is too big.

Too much space is often a common problem for over-cautious novices. Because, after the camera is turned on, it is first in the wide-angle lens position, and the space for picture performance is the most open. If the subject is far away, the image in the picture is small and the space will be too large. The image of the subject in the picture is too small for the audience to see clearly; There is too much blank screen, which wastes the TV screen. If the photographer uses the camera's long-focus lens too cautiously and hangs the subject in the recent shooting, the problem of "too many gaps" cannot be corrected.

In order to avoid "too many gaps", beginners should boldly use the long focal length lens of the camera to enlarge the subject and fill the picture space. A long focal length lens can enlarge the image of the subject and make the audience see it very clearly. Using a long focal length lens can also exclude some irrelevant scenes around the subject from the picture, which is beneficial to highlight the subject.

(eight) start-stop action is too large

Too many start-stop actions are a common problem for beginners. This is because everyone is not familiar with the key operation of the camera. At the beginning, the scholar pressed the open button in the video recording operation, and the action was too big, which caused the whole camera to shake, and then the camera just entered the video recording state; When the video is finished, press the stop button. If the action is too big, the whole camera will shake. The camera hasn't finished recording yet. Therefore, there is artificial jitter at the end of this video, which will directly affect the quality of the whole picture. Beginners must correct the problem of too many starting and ending actions. First of all, be familiar with the button position of the camera. Secondly, we should practice more operation methods. When a novice is recording, when pressing the start or stop button, the action should be gentle and don't shake the whole camera.

In addition, beginners can use a tripod. The camera is installed on a tripod, and the influence of too many start-stop actions is fundamentally eliminated by controlling and adjusting. At first, scholars have some operating experience, formed a gentle start-stop action, and can gradually give up the tripod.

(9) Picture jitter

Strictly speaking, the picture jitter is not just a novice problem. When shooting, the cameraman shoots with a hand-held camera or a shoulder-mounted camera, so the human body can't be completely still, and there will be slight jitter, which will affect the shot picture and cause slight jitter. When the photographer uses the camera's wide-angle lens to shoot, the characteristics of the wide-angle lens can reduce the influence of slight jitter of the human body on the camera shooting, and the jitter of the picture can be reduced to a negligible degree. When the photographer uses the telephoto lens of the camera to record, the characteristics of the telephoto lens will sensitively reflect the influence of slight human jitter on the camera. The higher the zoom magnification, the greater the picture jitter. Under normal circumstances, the zoom magnification is 6 times, and the picture jitter will reach an uncontrollable level. Recently produced cameras are generally equipped with lenses with zoom magnification of 10 to 15 times, and some cameras are also equipped with electronic zoom magnification function of dozens or even hundreds of times. Therefore, image stabilizer is a topic that cannot be ignored. However, if the zoom magnification is less than 3 times, the picture will shake greatly, which means that the photographer has less time to control the camera himself and needs more practice.