Photographic composition skills in solidification moment

Lead: The composition creates a three-dimensional sense to make you immersive, and the light full of time flavor takes you back to the moment when you press the shutter. Take a photo of your girlfriend with a sense of scene and time before the end of summer, so that you can relive the beautiful atmosphere at that time every time you watch it.

Go back to that moment and take the photos with the strongest sense of time

Light can not only be used for modeling, but you can skillfully reproduce the sense of time of photos by paying attention to the different color temperatures and characteristics of light.

Autumn is about shooting at dusk

The most varied moments of sunshine are early morning and dusk, when the light is soft and moist, and before 9 am and after 3 pm, it is a time point with comfortable color temperature. The autumn and winter dusk is warmer and thicker than the summer dusk, and it is also a good season to choose the key shooting.

in terms of timeliness, before the sun appears in the morning or after sunset, the scenery you see is particularly blue, as if covered with a filter. When the sun rises, the color temperature of the light returns to white, so the color of the object is restored, and red is red and green is green. So if you want to make the picture more time-sensitive, you'd better shoot it in the morning and at dusk.

Tip: Restoring the truest people and scenes is sometimes better than? Perfect? Composition and exposure are more important!

Q: do I have to fill in the light when I take a portrait against the light? A friend once asked me to take a look at his work. It is roughly that a girl is standing under the roof of the backlight, in an environment with dim ambient light, but she appears from her upper body to her face? Radiant? The strange scene, and the light came from below, and later I learned that the light source came from the reflector. When talking about why the reflector should be hit, he said: People are dark! Everyone said to fight like this. ? If you think the contrast between positive and negative light is too strong, you may wish to change the angle slightly and try to restore the real effect with natural light.

Regular background is more attractive

When many kinds of smaller objects become a larger object repeatedly, visual tension will naturally form strength; And there are bound to be more shapes to fill the picture, such as repetitive squares, repetitive circles, repetitive polygons, etc., so that the picture will not be loose and empty, but also have a cohesive effect, making the sense of space more solid. Of course, there are uniform groups, different sizes, positive and oblique groups, so the groups we are looking for should choose rhythmic combinations as much as possible, such as lively jumping, strong or weak, ups and downs, staggered back and forth and different lengths like music rhythm. If each small unit is like a twin copy, it will be slightly dull.

After five o'clock in the afternoon, the oblique sunlight shines on the protagonist and bride in the picture, and the white gauze blooms with reflected light, showing its lightness and texture. If the shooting is near noon and the light source comes from above, then the ground that is not the focus will be revealed, and the bride will show a dark side.

You should throw away the reflector for backlighting.

Since the light in the morning and dusk is the most characteristic, you can shoot more at this time. Then you will definitely encounter how to control it. Backlight? The light problem. In order to reproduce the scene environment truthfully, the light must be reasonable: the color temperature of the light should be reasonable, and the source of the light should be reasonable. Unless there is a special creative purpose, such as the need for bright characters when backlighting, you can shoot from a different angle or a different position. If you want to shoot from the perspective of backlighting, then I want to express the feeling of backlighting. Why not let the captured image feel the same as what the eyes see? Might as well keep some scenes and atmosphere under the backlight!

At this time, it is easy to have the problem that the face is underexposed and the background is too bright, so you can shoot with a slightly lower camera or side backlight.

Positive backlight has the most sense of scene, and the color of backlight is warmer in autumn. When shooting, it is easier to master the light effect of low-position

side backlight, which not only has the backlight effect, but also can easily avoid the face of the person being completely black

These two photos were shot at the same time and place with different metering modes. However, in the above picture, the automatic exposure lock (AE) on the camera is used to measure the light outside the window and inside the window, and the shutter can simply complete different light atmosphere and visual experience twice.

The master did the same thing.

I believe you are familiar with Miller's paintings. Evening Prayer, completed in 1859, is one of Miller's most famous works. It describes a peasant couple who put down their work and prayed devoutly when the church bell rang in the distance.

Like the name of the painting-Evening Prayer, we can feel the hint of timeliness in the painting. It must be a day's work, the sun sets, and after praying, we will go home for dinner. Although we see a still picture, it reminds us of the past of this picture a few hours ago and the future a few hours later. This is the story conveyed by a picture. To achieve this feeling, did Miller use it? Backlight? . Imagine, if this work is represented by a sunny side, even if the picture has a dim sunshine tone, then the time symbol of dusk will not be so obvious. It's because we feel the backlight visually, plus the action of characters and the collocation of affiliated elements, so-called? Evening prayers? And its story, you can convince the viewer.

Go back to that place. Three-dimensional photos let you be there.

If you want to be there again when you look at photos, you should use the front, middle and back scenes to draw out the layering and perspective effect of the space. ? Perspective composition? And? Tone? Can help us achieve a three-dimensional sense.

The picture is more layered from another angle

From Main Dherdt? Hobbema (1638? 179), the picture structure was transformed into a point where the linearity disappeared in the distance. Of course, the trees on both sides of the road were the same height, but visually, it made the picture space short in the near future and had a profound sense. At that time, artists preferred to use this technique to create a profound three-dimensional space.

In portrait photography, we can still use this technique for reference to reflect the three-dimensional sense of the picture. As shown above, I originally shot from a standing perspective with cherry trees as the background, and suddenly I found a low flower bed in front of my feet, so I squatted down close to the flower bed as the foreground, so the space changed from the original two floors to three floors, and the red flowers and green leaves were softened by the depth of field close to the camera, just like the color rendering on drawing paper. When taking pictures, we should always carefully observe the elements that can be used around us to make the picture richer and more unique.

if the lens is perpendicular to the flowers and people, it will lack the three-dimensional sense

Tip: follow the inspiration at the moment of pressing the shutter and forget the textbook for the time being!

Q: how to communicate with the model in a short time and make an accurate composition?

expert's answer: Of course, you can take more natural photos by pressing the shutter quickly, but I only gave you the composition? Intuition? When shooting, I only consider whether the current viewpoint gives me a good or bad feeling. If it is good, I will press it instantly, and if it is not good, I will move it away quickly. This requires long-term cultivation and exercise of aesthetics. There must be a reason why I pressed the shutter at this time, so I can sum up a truth afterwards. But at that moment, it was just intuition, not thinking about or recalling a bunch of composition rules mentioned in the book at the moment of shooting.

please use a telephoto lens to compress the space

an ultra-long focal lens can not only bring the foreground closer, but also strongly compress the space, making the picture quite compact without affecting the subject far away from the lens. Therefore, the picture taken with ultra-long focal length lens is more concise, refined and full, which can describe and reproduce the details and texture of the scene in detail, highlight the subject and blur the foreground and background.

Because the ultra-long focal length lens can effectively draw the subject closer, strongly compress the visual space of the picture, and obtain the pattern aesthetic feeling of the superimposed scenes on the basis of obviously weakening the perspective effect, it also produces the deformation force opposite to that of the wide-angle lens. Although the perspective effect is poor, it has the characteristics of obviously compressing the spatial depth distance and exaggerating the foreground.

Foggy weather can better capture the sense of depth

Photographic composition skills of solidification moment

French painter Monet is one of the founders of impressionism. He is good at depicting the endless appearance of the same scene under different light and air at different time points, emphasizing the visual experience of color, and paying attention not to the object itself, but to observing the process of color change. Monochrome will simplify the complex scenery, and make the viewer focus on the eyes of the characters, choose the correct architectural structure angle and extend the background space. In foggy days and cloudy days, because of the low transparency of the atmosphere, the distant scenery is more hazy and the color saturation is reduced.

The master did the same thing.

Through observation, we can find that Monet's work is divided into three parts: the front, the middle and the back, from the single tree in close view, the lake across the middle view, to the distant city and the distant mountains. The prospect is transmitted to our vision through the air layer between them, which naturally reduces the chroma (bright concentration) and improves the lightness (brightness), and the outline of the prospect itself is more blurred. Compared with the dense green of the close-up tree, the contours of each other become more obvious, immediately pulling out the illusion of far-reaching space on the plane of the picture.

Boldly create the balance in the imbalance

Only a few simple steps are needed to make the photo extraordinary

A composition that conforms to the aesthetic feeling. Balance is the key and the most important point to achieve the success or failure of a picture. If it is not balanced, it will cause anxiety, which is an unfinished composition. However, if the perfect balance like a temple building is too serious, it will feel more natural to strike a proper balance. Using background objects to balance the subject, or using colors to fill in the blanks, some small changes can make the picture more harmonious. So you can be here? Seeking balance among imbalances? I think it is a better image composition.

One of the six lines in the sky is more inclined than the other lines, and the person being photographed just looks up, which invisibly pulls the sense of weight up, thus successfully consolidating the stability of the whole picture.

The dumped area of wood is in the right half of the picture, and the direction of wood also extends from bottom left to top right.

If a character looks at the upper right of the screen, the center of gravity will tilt to the right. However, as long as the character turns to look at the upper left, an invisible line will naturally form from the character's eyes to the upper left of the screen, which will weaken the situation that the center of gravity leans to the right.