Camera shooting skills

I believe many people want to take good-looking photos, but what are the related photo-taking skills? Here are the camera shooting skills I want to share with you. Welcome to browse.

Look for textures and geometry

(a) looking for repeated textures

Open your eyes that you are good at finding. In fact, there are textures everywhere around us, whether it is leaves, floors, trunks, buildings, lights, clouds, or even cobwebs hanging on trees, you can also find the existence of textures. Try to enlarge them in the picture or become the main body, focusing on shooting.

(2) Looking for geometric patterns

In terms of texture, you may also find geometric patterns, such as squares of floor tiles, grids of fences and irregular windows, which can also be used for shooting! This step is not too difficult, but it is also a very artistic shooting method, which can also exercise the photographer's eyes and prepare for improving the photography technology.

Looking for light and shadow

(A) looking for light and shadow

Strong light and shadow can make photos more interesting, but to capture light and shadow, you can shoot at the right time (such as side light in the morning and evening) or under artificial light sources (such as stage lighting and night lighting). Backlighting and silhouette are also commonly used techniques. And plain light can bring a gentle feeling, which is more suitable for taking Japanese sketch photos or expressing plain feelings (such as early morning, air feeling, cool autumn, etc.). ).

(2) Remove the color and take black and white photos.

One way to enhance the effect of light and shadow is to take black and white photos. High-contrast black-and-white photos can greatly enhance the sense of drama of photos, without color, readers can pay more attention to the light and shadow and outline of photos. Unless you shoot with black and white film, you can shoot color photos directly (RAW file is better) and then convert them into black and white photos on the computer, which is more flexible.

Influence of hue

If you want to take a "feeling" photo, besides the texture, light and shadow mentioned before, color also has a great influence. Different color orientations can bring different feelings to the same scene. As long as you can make good use of colors and match the appropriate shooting theme, your ability to tell stories through photos will be greatly improved! Let's take a look at the influence of hue!

Here are some commonly used tone directions when shooting:

(1) Yellow and warm colors

Yellow is a warm color, which is often used in dusk and autumn, or when you want to express warmth, care and safety.

(2) Blue and cool tones

Cool tones have a sense of crisis, firmness and indifference, and can also bring a sense of fashion and cinema effect, so you often find the use of blue tones in Hollywood movies.

(3) Green

Edge color has a playful feeling, and the photos taken by LOMO camera often have edge color. Of course, it also played a role in expressing shock!

(4) Brown

Brown is common in the expression of retro or old scenes.

(5) Red

Red can imitate the light leakage of negative camera and add some style to photos!