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Night scene is a special light effect and an important time and space for people's social activities, so it is also the object of photography.

The basic characteristics of the night scene on location The sky is black. This is the main feature of the night scene, but it is not dark in the dark scene. Because the human eye has high resolution and strong adaptability, it can distinguish weak light. Therefore, the human eye feels the richness of the sky brightness in the night scene. However, due to the limitation of photographic film, it is impossible to completely record people's visual reflection. So we should find a suitable shooting method to darken the sky, but there are layers.

There is an artificial light source. The artificial light source here refers to the living light source for the purpose of lighting, such as street lamps, indoor incandescent lamps, fluorescent lamps, shop window lights and so on. The appearance of light source is another important feature of night scene. This kind of light source often constitutes the highest brightness on the picture. This is people's basic understanding of night scenes.

The subtle level, texture and even color of the scene in the night scene are lost. Only in the area illuminated by the light source can the shape, color, quality and three-dimensional sense of the object be reflected. Dark colors and darker tones are the main components in the night scene, which is also an important feature of the night scene. The scenery illuminated by artificial light is bright, while the backlight surface is black.

Choose the characteristics and shooting angle of the night scene (Yu Wang)

Choose a night scene with a special atmosphere. We mainly study the night view of the city here. In urban night scenes, there are often major festivals such as May Day, October 1st, New Year's Day and Spring Festival. In order to celebrate the festival, people hang "string lights" around the distinctive buildings to outline the outline of the buildings, which constitutes a special night scene atmosphere. Fireworks (fireworks) set off in the festival add to the festive atmosphere and gorgeous colors. It is an extremely beautiful, spectacular and colorful evening dress and the most wonderful shooting opportunity in night photography.

Make full use of the light source. Without or with few light sources, it is difficult to form the beauty of the night scene and show its characteristics. With enough light sources, not only the night scene can be represented, but also the scene level can be appropriately represented. So indoor light sources, road lights, neon lights in shops, window lights, street lights and so on. It is an ideal light source for shooting night scenes.

Use water or water on roads, or the water surface of lakes and rivers. At night, the light source will form reflections or bright spots in the water. The reflection and bright spots of this light source not only greatly enrich the colors in the picture, which are very valuable colors, but also render the atmosphere of the night scene and produce vivid modeling effects.

When choosing an angle for night photography, we should not only master the main features of the scene, but also choose the shooting angle. The choice of angle should reflect some requirements: it can show the characteristics of blackmail, the level of scenery in the blackmail scene, beautiful light and beautiful scenery form, so that the audience can feel the image of a beautiful night visually; It can better express the characteristics of the main body in the night scene and make it concise and distinctive; Only by grasping the key points can we convey the ideas of the works more accurately.