How to shoot a good work with a camera

How to take good photos with a camera?

The camera performance of smart phones has made a qualitative leap. At the same time, the prices of cameras and lens equipment are becoming more and more close to the people. This series of changes makes the threshold of photography lower and lower. However, although you can easily get a photo with your fingers, photography itself is still a technical job. Here are some common camera shooting techniques to make it easier for you to shoot your favorite works.

The first is ambiguity. To put it bluntly, the foreground or background of a photo (usually blurred background) is blurred by shallow depth of field, so that the picture has a sense of realism and realism. If you can't get a fuzzy effect when you look at the text, take a look at the following picture:

Blurring is a very practical performance in portrait photography. It can be seen that the blur effect can further highlight the subject and make your photos more "advanced", which is very practical in still life and portrait photography. There are three factors that affect blur: aperture, focal length and position. Among them, the larger the aperture and the longer the focal length, the more obvious the blur effect of the photo, which is a cliche. If you want to shoot a blurred feeling, a large aperture or telephoto lens is a good equipment choice.

Even ordinary leaves on the roadside will look quite good after blurring the background.

What needs to be said separately is the third element, which is the seat. Specifically, under the premise of ensuring normal composition, try to keep your camera close to the subject, keep the photo background away from the subject, and blur the background to the maximum extent. In order to facilitate understanding, I made a simple picture-

The shorter the distance 1 and the longer the distance 2, the more obvious the blurring effect will be.

In fact, the shooting method is very simple: let the camera, the subject and the background be on the same horizontal line as far as possible (it doesn't matter if it is slightly tilted), and at the same time ensure that the shorter the distance is 1, the longer the distance is. Reasonable seats, suitable equipment and blurred photos can be said to be handy.

How to take a good photo with a SLR camera? Here I have compiled the basic photography skills of a SLR camera for you, hoping to help you!

First, how to take a good photo

Many times, when we have a camera with good performance, we can't take satisfactory photos. The reason is that the printed effect is not the same as that seen when shooting, especially in terms of pigments.

John Yixi, a former AFP photographer, has published his works in major newspapers in China. Among them, in last year's South Asian tsunami incident, he took amazing photos of the disaster scene in Phuket, Thailand, and let the world see Phuket, which was hit hard by the tsunami. Besides, he was the only professional photographer on the island at the time of the incident.

Cosgrove, a well-known photographer, pointed out that in order to take good photos, digital camera users only need to know the following four elements to control digital cameras: white balance, color space, how to maintain digital cameras and control shooting speed.

1, new machine reset

He reminded users who just bought digital cameras not to let them keep "automatic settings" when they leave the factory. These automatic settings include: white balance, ISO speed and contrast. Adjusting these settings to initialization settings will help improve the visibility of photos.

2. Make good use of white balance

He also suggested that photographers should try shooting in different white balance modes. In particular, shooting some pictures with characters inside can create a different feeling. For example, using sunlight or candlelight mode, the characters in the picture are brought out of the breath of life through photos, making the photos look vivid.

3, understand the camera color gamut

Digital cameras process photos through digital chips and analyze the colors in the photos. Mastering the color gamut is an important part of these color assignments, so that digital cameras can identify different colors. He also pointed out that in the color gamut, there are red, blue and cyan respectively, instead of the traditional red, blue and cyan.

He pointed out that general digital cameras use sRGB color gamut, which is often close to the natural color gamut of the real world. Now there is an AdobeRGB color gamut with a wider color gamut, which can make photos look brighter.

Users must understand this to avoid any difference between the photos taken and the results developed.

4. Fully maintain the camera

For a battery-driven camera, if it is not started for a long time, it is best to take out the battery to avoid affecting the camera body. In addition, every time the photos in the memory card are downloaded to the computer for storage or modification, the photos will be stored or burned on the CD. Do not use the memory card for long-term storage to avoid losing it.

At the same time, after each photo download, format the memory card with the camera to make good use of the space in each memory card. When not in use, please store it in a clean and dry place to prolong the service life of electronic instruments.

Secondly, it must be silly to introduce digital photography.

Nowadays, digital cameras are becoming more and more powerful, and some functions are not even available in professional optical cameras, such as white balance adjustment, enclosed photography, scene mode photography, multi-point area evaluation photometry, multi-point focusing and offset focusing. And the automatic exposure function is becoming more and more powerful and perfect. It seems natural to take good photos with a digital camera, but it is not that easy in fact.

If you want to take more good photos, especially in harsh environmental conditions, it depends on your familiarity and deep understanding of your own photographic equipment, which requires a little basic knowledge of photography and aesthetic cultivation, and more importantly, long-term experience accumulation, so it is not easy to get. I'm still a novice in digital photography. I don't have much experience, but I have encountered many nails. I often get different photos and the results are satisfactory. I can also sum up something after careful memory and experience. The following "stupid tricks" may have certain reference value for filmmakers who are still exploring their experience. These stupid tricks are:

Multi-lens selection

More shooting means more practice and more experience from a macro perspective. Specifically, we might as well try more shots to win more, choose the best from many, or carefully re-shoot a scene after exploring the best scheme. This is a stupid trick, but it is really a trick to give full play to the advantages of digital cameras. Optical photographers have no laws. You see, optical cameras shoot with film, so you can't know whether you are satisfied or not on the spot. We won't know until we develop it. Winning with more is bound to waste a lot of film and the cost is too high. So optical photographers often cherish the "mirror" and don't press the shutter easily. When they grab the camera carefully and take the next photo, they have to go back and develop it before they know the result. If they are not satisfied, it will be difficult and it will be too late to make up for it. Therefore, old friends often lament that optical photography is an art full of regrets.

Digital photography is different. The image is now stored on the magnetic carrier of the machine, and can now be played back and observed. If you are not satisfied, get rid of them and start over. This is a great advantage of digital photography. So now I usually choose a topic first and choose several scenes around it. First, each scene revolves around it several times, and the shooting scheme under different angles and different lighting conditions (backlight, shun-light, photometry, fill-light, etc.) is drawn up. ), and then I did not hesitate to shoot. Sometimes I shoot the same project from the same angle several times, then stop to play back, and the dissatisfied shots are deleted on the spot, often ten to seven or eight, only one. Then shoot a scene and brew it until a special topic is completed.

Generally speaking, two or three hundred or even four or five hundred shots were taken, leaving only seventy or eighty figures. After you come back, save it on the hard disk, then use ACDSee to enlarge and play it back, and delete a part. Then use the editing function of ACDSee to play back and do preliminary image processing. Generally, one is to correct the skew, the other is to cut it when necessary to improve the composition, and the third is to correct and make up for the lack of exposure of individual photos with the function of "automatic leveling". After this process, the photo can be considered as a preliminary finished product, and then it can be taken back to ACDSee for amplification and playback. If it is too mediocre, you can delete it again, so that there are only twenty or thirty or even a dozen photos left in each topic.

How can we take good photos?

The so-called "photography" is to shoot some parts or all of the scenery and attract the audience with the beauty of the unique characteristics of the subject. However, when shooting close-ups, it is usually because the camera is very close to the subject, and it is easy to affect the image quality because of the unstable grip of the camera. But you can overcome these problems by buying some suitable equipment.

Use a tripod

The camera must be mounted on a tripod to prevent the camera from shaking when shooting. Try to keep the camera close to the subject, and be careful not to introduce unnecessary shadows.

Focusing orbit

Although it is not necessary for shooting, the focus track is a good auxiliary device, which can help you take good close-ups. The focal track can make the camera move along the X-axis and Y-axis in very small increments, and can accurately control the camera position and the depth of field of the picture. It is very troublesome to move the triangular bracket to the ideal position.

Even if you have installed the camera on a tripod, if you press the shutter carelessly, it may still shake the camera, so in order to avoid this situation, I suggest you use cable release.

When shooting, when the background of the object is black, the shot image can be made to look the clearest. You can also use a fuzzy background, especially when the color of the subject is very strong.

Wrap it in a white card or aluminum foil to reflect the light on the object and illuminate the shadow on the object. Be careful not to let this card appear in the shooting range.

Sometimes, even the breeze blurs close-ups. At this time, you must be patient, and it is best to wait until the wind has passed. Similarly, when shooting outdoors, when the clouds in the sky cover the sun, it is best to wait until the sun comes out, so that the photos taken will look brighter than those taken on cloudy days.