How to shoot a big film in such bad weather as rain and fog?

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Suppose you plan to take a photo one morning, but wake up, it's cloudy and raining, so you just lie down and go back to sleep? You have many reasons to support you-the camera may get wet, the weather is gloomy and the contrast is too weak, the lighting effect is too flat, or the road is slippery on rainy days, and even I don't like this weather. If so, you will miss many wonderful photos.

In fact, shooting in rainy days can not only show the special atmosphere of rainy days, but also show the photographer's mood well. A photo with atmosphere and emotion is the basic condition of a good photo.

Bad weather is a photographer's best friend. When you are worried about "what to do if it rains tomorrow", they always don't care, because they know that rainy days may bring them more excellent works. For excellent photographers, rain or shine, rain or fog, different weather has different shooting methods, and each weather has its own unique charm. This optimism seems hard to understand, but in fact, for you, as long as you get up firmly and go out with a camera, success has already begun.

For example, taking flowers in rainy days is a very "useful" skill. Because not only the soft light will make the colors brighter, but also the flowers washed by rain will look cleaner. If you add the residual rain on the petals, the effect will be perfect.

When you decide to go out early in the morning, only to find that the weather is gloomy, you will often feel very disappointed. Cloudy days are recognized as "bad weather". But if you put down your camera when you see a cloudy day, you are wrong. In fact, cloudy days are good for photography.

First of all, cloudy days are the safest weather. Because the light is very uniform and soft, there is no obvious light and shadow distribution on the scenery and people, which greatly reduces the contrast. There is no need to make a difficult choice between light and shadow, and the exposure difficulty is greatly reduced.

Because the illumination of the scene is uniform, the task of photometry can be handed over to the camera on cloudy days. If the setting is basically kept at "central average metering", an ideal exposure can be guaranteed, and the colors in the picture will be more gorgeous and saturated. This kind of exposure can be called "big relief" exposure. Because you can just consider the composition and leave the exposure to the camera.

Rainy days are the biggest "bad weather". It has brought us many difficulties, such as: the camera is wet, it is inconvenient to wear a raincoat, the road is muddy, and the camera is prone to fog. Even if you have advanced rain protection equipment and a complete rain cover, the changeable weather conditions in rainy days will still make it difficult for you to shoot.

First of all, cloudy and rainy days will reduce the intensity of sunlight by about half compared with the same time. You must use a larger aperture or higher sensitivity to ensure a high enough shutter speed.

Secondly, if you are used to manual exposure shooting, you should pay special attention to the change of light brightness in rainy days, especially in heavy rain. The light condition may drop by 2 levels in half an hour, so you should always measure the light to avoid exposure errors.

The color of rainy days

The charm of rainy days may be at your muddy feet. Have you ever tried to squat down in the drizzle and look at the flowers on the roadside? You will find that they will appear brighter than usual at this time. This is not only because the rain washed away the dust on the flowers, but also because the rain reduced the floating dust in the air and reduced the influence of the air on the color.

In addition, due to the obvious contrast between sunny days, if you want to keep the dark part, you have to sacrifice the color of the bright part, and paying attention to the bright part will lose the saturation of the dark part. However, in rainy days, thicker clouds make the light darker and more uniform. There is no need to make a choice in exposure. Generally, the average photometric color can be well displayed.

On rainy days, the colors of nature are thick and light, so we can take color films and ingest more gorgeous colors such as red, yellow and green, so as to get really beautiful colors like washed ones.

Soft light effect

Except for the rainstorm with dark clouds covering the sun, the lighting effects during daytime rainfall is basically similar to that on cloudy days, with the light intensity slightly lower by one or two levels, softer light and lower contrast. It's just that rainy days are relatively darker and softer, and the portrait photos taken at this time are also soft and delicate. Not only that, as we just mentioned, when it rains, the scenery is clearer and the colors are brighter, so the portraits taken on rainy days are often soft and fresh.

"rain silk"

Rain itself is a beautiful scenery. No matter with natural scenery or artificial landscape, once it is combined with life, rain will become an important aesthetic element in the picture. Slowing down the shutter speed and letting the raindrops form "rain threads" will make the rain appear bigger.

Remember the shutter speed for shooting the rain scene? We can use the shutter speed of 1/30- 1/60 seconds to represent the rain as "raindrops", and then we can choose a darker background to set off these raindrops. We can further control the effect of rain to express different themes. For the same rainfall, we can slow down the shutter speed and turn it into a "downpour", or we can increase the shutter speed and bring the effect of "Mao Mao rain".

Different effects can be matched with different contents. For example, to show that the sentry is still in the rain, we can slow down the shutter to highlight the delicacy of the rain. If you want to shoot ancient buildings in the rain, you can slightly increase the shutter speed to avoid too much rain light blocking the appearance of the building.

Surface accumulated water

Ground water accumulation is a special sight brought by rain. After the rough road surface is flooded, the reflectivity is greatly improved and becomes a complete "mirror". On the one hand, this improves the light intensity of the environment. At this time, if manual exposure is used, the exposure should be reduced accordingly. At the same time, the water on the road surface can also form the reflection of the scene, which becomes a right-hand man for creation whether it rains or after rain, and enhances the interest of the picture.

It is an opportunity to reflect the photographer's wisdom by taking advantage of the accumulated water formed on the road surface when it rains.

You can use your imagination to make use of these reflections. In addition, if it rains in the evening, the neon lights in the city will also bring bright but hazy colors to the rain scene, just like faint dyes in the water. Of course, it is necessary to strictly control the exposure to ensure the accurate exposure of reflections and scenes. Generally speaking, choosing the area between water reflection and neon lights as the metering point can get better results.

glazing

The water drops on the glass window can easily create a "fresh" and "quiet" atmosphere. In addition to the water surface, glass windows are also one of the commonly used "props" for shooting rain scenes. Instead of reflecting light with glass, it is emitted through raindrops on the glass. Raindrops will form raindrops when they hit the glass, and the newly falling rain will form transparent traces, through which you can vaguely see the scenery outside the window. And the dense water drops are like a palette, which blends the colors outside the window.

The water drops on the glass window can easily create a "fresh" and "quiet" atmosphere.

Therefore, whether you are sheltering from the rain at home or in the shopping mall, you can try to take a unique rain scene with the glass window in front of you. At night, the rain makes the scenery look darker, and cars turn on their lights one after another. At this time, if you are on the bus coming home from work, you can pick up the camera and come to the driver's exclusive "big glass", and press the shutter when the wiper passes by to form a clear fan shape. The clear scene in the fan-shaped area forms a completely different texture from the fuzzy color covered by water droplets around it.

The red taillight in front of the car, the yellow light on the opposite car, the green traffic light and the reflection on the ground will all be mixed into different effects in these two different media. As long as you master the exposure, you can take very wonderful photos. It is suggested that you use spot metering mode to measure the reflection of light in water, and basically you can get a more suitable exposure.

People in rainy days

The charm of rainy days goes far beyond this, and the unique scene formed by rain itself is only one aspect of its help to creation. More importantly, rainfall can also make people show a different state of life from usual. Changes in natural conditions will always cause some changes in people's hearts, and weather is also an important factor affecting people's emotions. This is why many important plots in film and television dramas have to be arranged in the rain. Whether it is sad or sweet, rain can always easily push people's emotions to a climax.

When it rains, the state of the characters will be different from that in peacetime, and their personalities will be more obvious, especially for children. At this moment, their curiosity and excitement will be even stronger.

When it rains, you can "walk" in the street and you will find a different mood. He strode forward with his head down under the umbrella, eager to go home, looking up at the sky under the eaves with confused eyes, little feet in rubber shoes happily stepping on the water under bright raincoats, men and women walking together under a big umbrella and so on. It can be said that every step will bring new discoveries. And if you come to the platform where the train is about to leave, the muddy construction site, and the school gate just after school, you will definitely encounter more touching scenes.

If you want to shoot people in rainy days, you often need to use manual exposure, because the light in rainy days is more elusive. If shooting in the daytime, you can aim at the face of the person wearing a raincoat or sheltering from the rain, take the obtained value as a reference, then measure the face brightness of the person under the umbrella, and then write down this value. Umbrellas will block some light, so people who play umbrellas often have darker skin and need more exposure. When shooting, you should switch between two exposure value in time according to the lighting conditions.

If you want to shoot a rainy scene at night and show colorful lights, then you should aim at the water to reflect the light and determine the exposure value. As long as the light intensity is constant, the same exposure can be used. But if you need to show it to people when shooting, you need to focus on the face again.

Snow scenes are generally divided into two types, one is when it is snowing and snowflakes are flying all over the sky; The other is that the sun reappears after the snow stops, but the snow has not melted yet. In these two cases, the lighting environment is different, the shooting method is different, and the shooting content is completely different.

snowscape

When it snows, the weather is gloomy, the visibility is poor, and the light is loose and soft, which is a bit like shooting a rainy scene. At this time, we can still capture fine snowflakes with a slow shutter, or we should pay attention to setting them off with a dark background.

Similarly, people's living conditions are very unique when it snows. Compared with rain, falling snowflakes naturally have a "cold feeling". Snowflakes always appear with heavy clothes and white water vapor. This special scene can highlight the cold in winter: in the winter when it suddenly snows heavily, people walk in the street wrapped in clothes and covered with snowflakes; Bamboo bent by snow is swaying in the snow.

The appearance of sunshine will greatly eliminate the cold feeling of snow and make the snow scene more vital.

At the same time, this cold also provides a foil for the fiery life: when it snows, the roadside breakfast stall becomes a warm haven. When the boss's hand was red with cold and opened the steamer, a steam gushed out of it. This kind of steam becomes as white and thick as a cloud in winter, and the diners' bowls are steaming, which makes the usual inconspicuous warmth stand out. On the contrary, it is children who show greater vitality in snowy days. For them, snow has turned the world into an amusement park.

You can come to a school and take pictures of the children's cheerful state after class. They can turn the school playground into a huge "battlefield", and the falling snowflakes mixed with flying snowballs will make the atmosphere more warm. It can be seen that snow can make daily life more charming.

Sunny snow scene

After the snow clears, the scenery becomes another style: the warm sunshine dominates the earth, and the cold of snow becomes less obvious, just like cotton on the ground. Any different scenery and buildings are decorated with snow into a unified style, and complex colors are shrouded in exquisite white, making the whole world simple and pure. Any unnecessary, unnecessary and complicated affairs only leave an outline in the snow. This is why people always feel relieved and relaxed when facing the snow scene. So the snow scene always looks unique.

The appearance of sunshine will greatly eliminate the cold feeling of snow and make the snow scene more vital.

However, it is not easy to film this "silver-wrapped" world. Remember when we said, what is the highest reflectivity in life? This is pure snow.

Snow with reflectivity as high as "96%" is particularly bright under the sunlight. In this way, there will be a great contrast between places where it snows and places where it doesn't (such as the external walls of buildings erected and pine trees under snow, etc.). ). This often makes it difficult for us to decide.

At this time, it is advisable to shoot when the sun shines obliquely in the morning or evening, and then choose the scenery and buildings with direct sunlight to shoot, so that the brightness difference between snow and scenery will be smaller, and the golden sunshine and blue sky also add bright colors to the snow scene.

In addition, the texture of snow itself is also difficult to express. If you shoot according to the general metering effect, the snow will be gray and lose its white beauty. According to the principle of "white plus black minus", you should increase the exposure appropriately. However, if the exposure increases too much, the snow will become "dead white", and the texture of the snow will not be displayed without hierarchical differences. Therefore, if you want to shoot a snow scene with appropriate exposure, you need accurate exposure.

Generally speaking, it can be done by "18% grayscale photometry". If it is too late to carry out "18% grayscale photometry" in an emergency, the exposure compensation can be increased by one or two steps to compensate for the influence of snow on photometry.

Fog will make the scenery more hazy and looming, and the world in front of us seems to be separated by gauze. Fog can hide some distant scenery, make the nearby scenery present a rich sense of hierarchy, and make the front, middle and background fade gradually in the fog, which has a strong sense of spatial depth.

"aerial perspective"

The change from far to near gives people a strong sense of space and achieves the same effect as perspective, so it is called "aerial perspective".

Therefore, when shooting, you can choose far, middle and near contrast scenes to enhance the sense of spatial depth, and at the same time, the foreground and middle scenes should be dark scenes to form a strong far-near contrast. This brings difficulties to the exposure. Spot metering is difficult to find suitable gray spots, so it can show vivid and changeable natural scenery. The hazy effect of this "aerial perspective" in expressing the vision also provides more pictures with "artistic conception" for many friends who like ink painting.

The "aerial perspective" effect of the fog scene will make the distance of the scene extremely clear, and the background has even disappeared in the fog.

Soft light effect

The air refraction is serious in the foggy scene, and the water mist covers the scene like a big soft box. At this time, the light effect is the softest in all weather conditions. But this is limited to the nearby scenery.

Different fog scenes

You may have had such an experience: the fog at different times and places looks and feels different and has different charm-the fog on cloudy days is connected with the sky, which is more depressing and gloomy; On a sunny morning, mist is quietly scattered on the grass or river, which is quiet and peaceful. The clouds in the mountains are accompanied by majestic and dangerous peaks, which look magnificent.

Each kind of fog has its own charm, and it needs to be slightly adjusted in exposure to show their characteristics. The fog is heavy on cloudy days. After photometry, the exposure can be appropriately reduced to restore the gloomy effect. In the morning, the influence of fog is not particularly great, so you can reduce some exposure and keep the cool effect of the morning sky. If you want to shoot the fog in the mountain area, you can reduce the exposure, keep the texture of the cloud itself, and make the mountain look more hazy.

In addition, bright colors can enhance the vitality of fog scenes. Filters (fog mirrors) can be used to enhance or weaken the sense of fog (yellow and orange) (green filters can eliminate brown fog in cities).

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