Have you learned the shooting skills of slow-door swan trajectory?

(1) The best light for shooting swans should be in the morning and evening, especially when the sun goes down. When the ambient light is mainly gray, or the comprehensive pigments of sky, ocean, land, mountains, trees and villages are complex, the exposure value in the middle shall prevail.

(2) When the background light is black, follow the rule of "white plus black minus" and appropriately reduce the exposure value. When the background light is white and in a backlight environment, the exposure value should be increased appropriately. Generally, it is better to control the increase or decrease of exposure value between plus and minus 1/3 and 2/3.

2. Controlling metering, focusing and shutter speed is the key:

(1) generally adopts spot metering, evaluation metering and single-point autofocus. Spot metering mainly highlights the subject and weakens the influence of the surrounding environment, and is often used for static and close-up shooting. Evaluation photometry mainly reflects the average exposure value of the subject and the environment, and is generally used to highlight the subject and reflect the environment. Single-point autofocus is a common method to selectively ensure the sharpness of the subject.

(2) In shooting, it is best to adopt continuous servo focusing for flying swans. When autofocus cannot focus on the subject due to environmental influence, you can choose to use autofocus and manual focus at the same time. Of course, you should choose the later stage instead of taking pictures.

The shutter of Flying Swan must be set to continuous shooting. At the same time, it is also important to control the number of continuous shooting. It's best to choose odd numbers, such as 3, 5 and 7 continuous shooting, so that the attitude selection in the later stage is optional. If you choose continuous shooting even numbers, such as 2, 4 and 6 continuous shooting, you will find that the posture of the first flying swan you photographed is the same as that of the last one. This is because of the influence of the flapping frequency of swan wings during flight.

(3) Generally speaking, the speed of flying swans should be adjusted according to the distance, and the shooting speed of flying swans should be improved accordingly. Generally, the distance between subjects should be 1/500s- 1/2000s, and the definition and sharpness of dynamic swans photographed at a speed lower than 1/500s will be greatly reduced.

3, pay attention to composition, get a good charm, and the combination of reality and reality is very important:

(1) Shooting swans, the composition is ingenious, and the charm is shot. The combination of reality and reality is the magic weapon to win a good film. Especially when shooting picturesque swans, we must take mountains, lakes, villages, wheat fields or ridges as the background and pay attention to the use of aperture and depth of field.

(2) When shooting swans flying in the village, first of all, the distance between the photographer and the subject should meet the needs of composition. Second, opening the aperture you want can blur the clutter of the background and enhance the performance of the theme. It is necessary to understand the characteristics of the equipment you use, especially the relationship between the distance between the lens and the subject and the distance between the subject and the background, in order to produce a visual effect with strong perspective.

4. To reserve reduced space, without regret:

(1) Shooting swans is different from other birds. The bigger the subject of photography, the better. Swan is an ordinary bird. Generally, the wingspan of an adult swan is between 800㎜- 1200㎜. If you don't pay attention to the photos taken, there will be a phenomenon of "frame explosion", which will destroy the good composition. So you should boldly leave enough room for the later secondary composition cutting.

5, choose equipment long enough, the distance is the last word:

(1) When shooting a swan, the focal length of the lens has a long advantage and a short advantage. Don't blindly pursue a long focal length. No matter how long the focal length is, its sharpness and texture will still be lost due to the influence of air medium. Therefore, it doesn't matter whether it is long or short. The key is to be as close to the subject as possible.

(2) Choose a camera to shoot swans, as long as the continuous shooting speed is above 3 shots per second and the focal length of the lens is between 70-70-70—500mm. Close-up of telephoto end and scenery of short telephoto end can be used.