How to take beautiful travel photos and bid farewell to the photos taken by my boyfriend?

The reason why many people don't look good in taking pictures is mostly the disharmony of composition. The term composition comes from a course called composition in western art. You can call it framing in photography. In my opinion, there is no right or wrong composition. Regardless of the composition, the purpose is to make the picture look simple and novel. But before you become a master, the following common composition skills may help you. Let's move a small bench and draw the key points:

1. Triangulation method

Divide the picture into three parts, or nine squares, and put the subject at the intersection of the nine squares. The four focuses in the middle are the golden section of the line.

2. Use the lines and colors in the picture to guide people's sight and increase the sense of depth.

3. Frame, observe the environment, you can use windows and doorframes to set a frame element. I don't have a ready-made map at hand, so the following two sources are:

4. Contrast or connection between subject and background:

5. Diagonal composition:

Diagonal composition can increase the vitality of photos, not too rigid, the picture is cut by diagonal composition, showing two parts.

This is not a standard diagonal composition, but it also benefits from the angle of the ancient city, which makes the photo split in two and has a sense of hierarchy.

Learn to make good use of the angle of the object itself, such as the turret of the Forbidden City, to find a suitable position to take pictures.

6. Symmetrical composition:

If you still can't master the above, you might as well use the simplest and original composition method-symmetrical composition, which can effectively increase the sense of balance of photos:

There are also two commonly used concepts in taking pictures: foreground and background. That is, you are a photographer. You must have heard the word background blur. Many people think that the photos taken by SLR look good, which is nothing more than that the subject is prominent after the background is blurred, and the beauty of the photos is instantly improved.

Here are some tips for shooting a blurred background:

1. Close shot

Because the lens of the mobile phone is wide-angle, it is impossible to shoot a blurred background at a long distance. My many practices have proved that the blur effect is the best when the distance between the mobile phone and the object is about 20cm.

2. Open the distance between the background and the subject.

People's visual habit is that the near is big and the far is small, so when shooting, the subject can be kept away from the background, so that the background blur effect can be more prominent.

3. Large aperture and telephoto shooting

Now many smartphones are equipped with large aperture mode and telephoto mode. The picture below is the official sample of iphone7 Plus, which was shot in telephoto mode.

Personally, I feel that the large aperture mode can simulate the blurring effect of the background, but the blurring of the edge area of the portrait is not good enough. The edge blur effect in telephoto mode will be better and closer to the effect of SLR.

It should be noted that the best time to shoot relatively spectacular scenery is to pay attention to "one night in the morning", from sunrise to 9 am, from around 4 pm to sunset. During this time, the illumination angle is relatively low, the light is soft and the color temperature is good, so the probability of taking a good photo is very high. However, it is unlikely to take a good photo under strong light, so try to avoid shooting in the midday sun, and pay attention to the fact that the subject can't turn his back on the sun.

Someone asked me why the sky I photographed was pale.

The trick is two things. First, determine the focus area and photometric area. All the children's shoes on the iphone know that there is a box in the middle when taking pictures, that is, the place where the box points, and the camera will use this place as the calculation standard to decide the focus and exposure. When shooting a sunset, if you focus on the ground, the sky will turn pale. If you focus on the sky, the sky will show more details and create a silhouette effect.

Second, when shooting the sky, turn on the HDR function to maximize the details:

Some people also asked, how to shoot the night scene? It's either dark or full of noise. First of all, two night scenes of Harbin Central Street:

In order to reduce noise and display more details, we need to turn on the professional mode of the mobile phone here. We can take beautiful night photos by adjusting exposure control, HDR, white balance, ISO and shutter speed. The usual method is to reduce the sensitivity to ensure noise, and by the way, you can reduce the exposure compensation by one grid to make the dark details stand out. In addition, you can slow down the shutter speed to shoot, but because the shutter speed is slow, the stability of the mobile phone is particularly important. For girls, a tripod is recommended. If there is no tripod leaning against the surrounding railings or glass, the equipment can be stabilized and jitter can be avoided.

Finally, a brief talk about color. In addition to pre-shooting, it is also necessary to color a good photo later. However, after using filters for a period of time, I seldom use exaggerated or sugary filters like LOMO or HDR. Even when taking pictures, I like to use the color of the object itself:

Or change to a gray tone or a black tone:

I found that if you have an unsatisfactory photo, but the composition is good, you can consider changing it to black and white, and it will be full soon. Commonly used color matching software is nothing more than the world's common Mix filter masters, such as VSCO, Cymera, Instasize. If you find a better color matching software, you can leave me a message. In short, the lens is not important, what matters is the idea. The same is true of color matching. As long as your ideas are good enough, you won't have to worry about making big movies.