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8 photography skills

Lead: Everyone has his own unique vision, and photography is the way to explore the beauty of personality. But beginners will face the first biggest difficulty: the photos taken by the camera are very different from what our eyes see. This uncontrollable difference has become an obstacle to our visual expression, not to mention the creative display of images! This article has collected 8 techniques for shooting WYSIWYG images, so don't miss them.

Determine the visual center of the picture

When eyes observe the world, where are they looking at? Is it a concrete object, or is it a collision and contrast between things, colorful or streamlined? The color, composition and other elements of the picture are all to serve this visual center. You have to find the exact location of the visual center before you can really record it. Don't just lift your camera and take a picture when you think the scenery in front of you is beautiful. When I go home, I will see the scenery clearly, but I feel that I have not photographed anything.

Understand the dynamic range of the camera

Dynamic range means that the image contains images from? The darkest? Where to? The smartest? The scope of. The dynamic range of human eyes is very high, and observing dark and bright places at the same time can record much more information than cameras. For example, when taking a portrait with a backlight, people see a normal image, and the camera can only record a black face and a white background, and nothing can be seen. In this case, either fill the dark figure in the photo or change the scene and angle so that the camera can record the image.

Comparison of the effects of backlight supplement

Understand the blur effect of aperture

Blurring the background with a large aperture is a photography skill that many photographers will use, but if you want to get what you see is what you get, you must control it well. Generally speaking, large aperture (small f value) can obtain strong blur, and small aperture (large f value) can obtain weak blur. Many photographers covet the strong blurring effect, but in fact, blurring is not necessarily good, and they often fall into it. There's nothing but blur. In a dilemma

Control focus position

In fact, this is very simple, as long as the focus position is controlled in the visual center, it is very clear. It should be noted that due to technical reasons, focusing is actually? Figure out a vertical plane in front of the camera? Once your visual center is clear, objects on the same vertical plane will also be clear.

Focus on the bug in the lower left corner, the little girl's face blurred.

Even if there is a zoom function, you should take photos and composition carefully.

With the zoom lens, it is a common mistake for beginners to zoom in and out only by its function. Let's put aside the good or bad photos and just say what you see is what you get. Zoom function will change the visual range of photos, so that you inadvertently? Cut? Delete the important content of the picture. I suggest that you only use the zoom function to adjust the visual range, and use your feet to adjust the distance between objects in the picture. If you want to have a closer look, just walk over and don't be lazy.

Learn the three elements of exposure and exposure compensation

Aperture, shutter, ISO. These are three factors that affect the exposure. Exposure compensation is a human intervention in the calculation results of camera exposure. There are many tutorials about the three elements of exposure on the Internet, which can make photos and on-site metering as similar as possible, so I won't say much here. However, for obtaining WYSIWYG images, the most important thing is to ensure that the dynamic range of the camera under this exposure is enough to record the scene, and pay attention to the shutter speed when shooting.

If you shoot with a longer focal length, you can't see the winding path and the big tree behind you.

Preset white balance before shooting

White balance is a built-in adjustment measure to deal with different colors of lighting in the environment. For example, under the blue light, everything will appear blue, but in fact, if we use the white balance set by the light, we can easily adjust the color. In real shooting, the yellow light of street lamps at night and the slight green light of indoor fluorescent lamps can be easily balanced with white, so that the colors are no longer weird. If you don't want to adjust before each shooting, you can use post-processing tools to adjust after shooting.

Don't refuse to use various shooting modes of the camera.

Even high-end cameras have a lot of automation functions for beginners, which really gives us a lot of convenience, but how can we afford high-end cameras if we just use automatic gears all the time? Understand all kinds of automation functions and gradually replace them with your own methods and operations. You will learn more and more useful knowledge in this process! It is recommended to learn aperture first.

Don't over-adjust the white balance, which will ruin the picture atmosphere.