Performance photography skills

Performance photography skills 1. Accurate exposure, make full use of living light, show real effect and maintain a sense of atmosphere.

Since most of the performance venues are audience, we should try to avoid affecting the rights and interests of the audience because of shooting. It should also be noted that flash is usually prohibited on the stage, because the instantaneous highlight of flash will affect the performance of actors. In fact, the flash has lost its use significance because of its long shooting distance, but it will destroy the scene lighting atmosphere on the stage, so it is generally shot by using the scene lighting of the stage and theater. In most cases, the scene light is complicated, so it is difficult to expose. If the lighting at the scene is bright and uniform, the camera's metering system can get a relatively accurate exposure value. If the light intensity and background of the subject are too dark, you should measure the light against the subject, otherwise the subject will be overexposed. If possible, shooting with a camera with a little metering function and metering with a telephoto lens can reduce the metering error. When shooting, we should take the main characters as the exposure standard, pay attention to the changes of scene lighting at any time, and adjust the aperture and shutter value in time.

While using spotlight, we should also pay attention to the adjustment of the white balance of the camera. Incandescent lamps or spotlights are generally used for stage lighting, and the corresponding white balance mode should be selected. Improper use of white balance will also weaken the sense of scene and even change the color expression of the picture.

Second, avoid blurring and pay attention to the "safety shutter" in stage photography.

When taking stage photos, you should control the shutter speed according to your shooting intention and the intensity of the light on the scene. Shutter speed plays an important role in grasping the movements of characters on the stage. We can not only freeze the scene on the stage at a faster speed, but also express an illusory feeling with a slow shutter, creating a visual effect of virtual reality and dynamic and static combination. When the shutter speed is controlled at about 1/60s, the subject presented on the stage can move or remain static, so that the photos taken not only have a clear subject image, but also make the picture feel flowing. In order to achieve different shooting effects, we should choose different shutter speeds. Compared with traditional cameras, digital cameras have certain advantages in shutter speed. Because the sensitivity of a digital camera can be adjusted, it can be improved when a higher shutter speed is needed, and vice versa.

In the folk performance that day, the above shutter precautions were basically ignored, because most singers were "quietly" intoxicated with their own music, and the audience was also intoxicated with their own notes. Therefore, the use of the shutter is mainly to pay attention to the safety shutter (the knowledge of the safety shutter can be found in Baidu, so I won't elaborate here). Fortunately, the current lenses are basically anti-shake, and the anti-shake foundation can ensure that the third shutter is lowered, which can achieve the shooting effect of a safe shutter and ensure the clarity and quality of photos (in aperture mode, lowering the third shutter means that ISO can lower the third shutter to ensure low noise and high quality photos). A friend asked me why I didn't use a tripod. Of course I can use a tripod in theory, but it is very inconvenient to carry a tripod at the concert site, which will not only affect the audience's appreciation of the performance, but also make it inconvenient to shoot flexibly.

In addition, when shooting scenes with a slow shutter speed, continuous shooting is one of the effective methods to improve the definition of photos, which can often improve the shooting success rate.

Third, the composition changes, using light and shadow to capture the expression in time, showing the characteristics of the singer and the music atmosphere of the scene.

In stage performances, lighting engineers will use different light sources to create different atmospheres according to the needs of different rhythms. The color composition of light is not only varied, but also bright and dark, which is very difficult to capture.

At this time, the photographer's familiarity with the camera will directly affect our shooting. I suggest that spot metering and exposure locking are very beneficial to shooting this kind of singing. When the exposure is locked, we just wait for the moment after focusing. As soon as a good expression appears, you should quickly press the shutter to capture a good photo with both form and spirit in time.

Shooting people is the expression and posture of photographers, and shooting musicians is no exception. The performer is either growling, concentrating, talking or intoxicated. Apart from touching music, these expressions can only be fully understood when performing live. In addition to facial expressions, the performance of the band's string brushing, drumming, swinging and rhythmic movements on the stage, and various body languages are directly pulling the emotions of the fans on the scene. The integration of musicians and musical instruments not only satisfies the audience's auditory enjoyment, but also attracts people's attention with their usual signature movements. This has also become one of the joys for fans to watch live performances. As a live photographer, you should be good at capturing the singer's demeanor.

Photographic works, such as jazz, are a form of improvisation. Personal expression is everything, but musical expression is based on the fixed structure of chords and the inheritance of chords. Composition is also a visual language combination, including simple points, lines, shapes, textures, tones, patterns and colors. For beginners, it seems unfathomable In fact, composition is a kind of personal aesthetics, which is to skillfully use these composition grammars to recombine into rhythmic and changing pictures through lens language (such as aperture) and visual angle changes. I believe that the ability of photography and composition will be further improved by shooting more and communicating more. There are both rules and regulations in composition, and there is no definite method in art, but only if you know something about the composition language of photography.

It's interesting and exciting to shoot theater performances, although it's never a good type. If you want to take good pictures during the performance, you should get used to taking pictures in low light. As a live photographer, while enjoying music, we should keep a keen eye and seize various shooting opportunities. If you can't take clear photos, please remember the first principle, that is, increase the aperture, adjust to high sensitivity, always pay attention to the safety shutter, and don't be stingy with the shutter, click, click (take more photos to choose photos) ~ ~

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