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How to express the picture language when taking photos of "residual load"

Lotus is known as a gentleman in flowers. The ancients used to describe its noble quality and elegant character with "mud without dye, clear without demon". For filmmakers, the rich curves and elegant appearance of lotus flowers are full of infinite charm, making it the eternal focus in front of many "long guns and short guns". However, if there is love in the sky and people are old, flowers are always green instead of flowers. The four seasons of nature, like a huge millstone, have crushed countless beautiful scenery and beautiful memories. It belongs to the lotus in summer and autumn, and it can't escape the destruction of winter snow. However, although the beauty is gone and the fragrance is still there, with the help of the screen language, we can still use the DC in our hands to explore and freeze the fragrance of the gentleman in the flower. It will be much more difficult to shoot residual lotus in the dead of winter than to create lotus photography in Sheng. To put it simply, there are three difficulties: first, the residual lotus lacks the pink flowers when the lotus blooms in summer, loses the support of beautiful colors, and the residual lotus is monotonous; Secondly, the residual load under the erosion of wind and frost has long lost its brilliant momentum of "infinite beauty of lotus leaves" and become lonely, which greatly limits the freedom between composition choices; Moreover, the pond is dry, the flowers are incomplete, there is no shadow of dragonflies, there is no sound of frogs and birds, and the artistic conception of the scenery is very easy to lack vitality and become dull. After fully understanding the disadvantages of the residual load, our shooting can begin. Pay attention to the intensity of light and the direction of light source before shooting. The sunshine in winter is usually weak, so it is necessary to adjust the light ratio appropriately and try to keep more details of light and shadow. In order to make the picture of the ghosting photography not look too cold, some film friends will deliberately lower the color temperature index through secondary adjustment after the white balance is set, in order to pursue a warm red tone. Practice has proved that this is beneficial to make the overall tone of the picture warmer. A key problem that determines the success or failure of ghosting photography is the sense of form of composition. In other words, it is impossible to shoot a good afterimage without finding a strong visual support point in the field of vision. Therefore, carefully observing the lines and textures of the subject, making full use of the reflection of water, environmental color blocks and depth of field control means can make your composition avoid monotony and create artistic conception. Good artistic conception can make the picture durable. In fact, what really creates visual artistic conception is the picture language, which requires photographers to abandon the high efficiency of "clicking" in the past, observe and ponder more calmly, and create a pair of discerning eyes. There is also a security issue that must be mentioned. In the process of shooting the residual load, we often see that some lotus ponds have dried up or frozen. In order to get closer to the main body, we will have the idea of approaching rashly. However, many lessons have proved that this reckless pursuit of "visual zero distance" is dangerous. On the dry surface or under the ice, the sticky silt does not dry up all the year round, and it is very dangerous to leave if it is not enough. Remember, robert capa's famous saying "If you don't shoot well enough, you're not close enough" can't be followed in the process of shooting the residual load. Well, that's a big verbiage. Let's see how you do it.