How to deal with indoor children's photography in the late night

Lead: Like birthdays and festivals, in fact, the most common thing you will encounter is shooting at night with the indoor lighting unchanged. Using a flash is unnatural, and the film looks uncomfortable; There is no need to flash the light, and the light is not bright enough. The best way is to find some lights at home. Floor lamp, desk lamp? Put it next to the person being photographed to fill the light. Haha, let's have a look!

Adjust and slice

Original film

On Mushroom's birthday, in the evening, we set tables and chairs, lit candles and ate cakes at home. There are only two ceiling lamps for lighting here. The light is not ideal. I put two floor lamps on the left and right of the little mushroom, and adjusted the angle to shine on her. When playing, you should move the lamp up and down, left and right to see the light and shadow effect on your face and adjust it to the ideal state? Don't have too obvious shadows, and don't shake the child's eyes.

I drew a simple sketch, as long as everyone can understand it.

Lighting schematic diagram

This set of photos was taken with a lens of 35 1.4. The shooting parameters are: ISO 1000, shutter 1/200 and aperture 1.8.

Later Lightroom adjustments are as follows:

1, basic adjustment: the focus of the post-adjustment of indoor light shooting is white balance. Generally it will be yellow, and the white balance parameters will be adjusted as follows.

Another common problem is that the dark part will be dark, so it is necessary to increase the exposure as a whole and then highlight the shadow part. At the same time, because the overall exposure increases, the highlights should be reduced appropriately.

2. Curve adjustment: adjust according to the basic idea of reducing highlights and brightening dark parts.

3. In terms of color, this film doesn't need much adjustment, just to make the skin color less yellow and improve the brightness of orange. The color separation tone has not been adjusted, because I am satisfied with the original color tone.

Well, it's actually quite simple. At the end of the year, there will be various festivals soon, and the baby's birthday will be celebrated at home. Let's try to shoot!