How to shoot a seaside portrait blockbuster?

Lead: The long summer is coming, and many friends plan to play games facing the sea and the sun in summer. In addition to swimming and playing at the seaside, it is natural to take some beautiful photos as a souvenir. If a friend asks you to take some beautiful photos with a digital camera, but you don't know how to master the skills, it will be very embarrassing. Because of the different lighting environment, seaside portrait photography will have different effects at every time of the day, so some skills need to be used to improve the photography level of seaside portrait photography.

How to shoot a seaside portrait blockbuster? 1. How to select a device

Since the positioning is portrait shooting, a fixed-focus lens with a large aperture is essential. For beginners, Canon and Nikon's 50mm 1.8 are the first choice, and friends with good conditions will buy portrait lenses of 85 mm1.2II or 85mm 1.4G, which are all artifacts for you to shoot real blockbusters of seaside portraits. Without these devices, students can simply use SLR or non-reflex, and there is no problem from basic practice.

Portraits by the sea are usually shot in two phases. When the light is extremely abundant, shooting is the most common one, and at night, it is also another shooting mode. Both are different in style and mood. The entry-level APS-C camera will be worse than the full-frame camera when shooting the latter in the low light stage, mainly because it needs to use better ISO to improve the shutter speed. However, higher ISO will bring different levels of noise, which will affect the image quality. Of course, you can continue shooting with a flash, but I think the integration of the subject and the background is greatly reduced (slightly false image P), which is not recommended.

Sharp tools make good work. Besides the camera lens, you need to prepare something extra, such as a flash and a reflector. The auxiliary function of these two things is quite powerful and important. Don't give up buying these devices just because they are expensive. General photographic equipment and accessories are developed and produced by domestic manufacturers, and the prices of domestic products are not expensive. It is suggested that beginners buy as soon as possible, which will play a great role in their future photography career.

Second, measurement and lighting.

It is difficult to grasp photometry to take a perfect portrait at the seaside. Because it involves the details of the sky and the sea, the seaside portrait has become the photographic subject that can best test the dynamic range of the camera. Because the angle of shooting and the situation before and after the light are different, the method of metering should also be changed accordingly. The simplest thing is to smooth the background, that is, the sun shines from behind or above you, and you also face the sea, while the model faces away from the sea. As a result, the model and the sea can be accurately exposed.

Sunlight shooting is the simplest, natural and beautiful.

But what we often encounter is worse. For example, when I went to the seaside, I found no blue sky and white clouds. When I went to the seaside, I found that there was no sunshine at all, let alone backlight. It doesn't matter, let's solve it step by step. First, we make light without sunlight. As shown below, on cloudy days, thick clouds provide us with the most natural' soft mask'. We just need to keep the details of the sea, expose the faces of the characters correctly, and then use the knowledge of composition, even if it is beautiful shooting.

Under normal circumstances, if there is no flash light, the face of the character will be very white and have no three-dimensional sense, but if measured in the sea, the face of the character will darken. So the money of flash with TTL (Off-board flash) function can't be saved (don't rely on the built-in Flash on the top of the machine). You don't need 1/8000 seconds high-speed synchronous flash on cloudy days, but you need to buy high-speed synchronous flash if you want to shoot back light when the sun is shining.

In addition to using flash to fill the light, the author also recommends using luminous board for lighting. There are many kinds of reflectors, such as gold, silver, black, white, translucent and completely opaque, which vary according to different shooting situations. The advantage of reflector is that it can adjust the position and reflect light more flexibly and conveniently, but the disadvantage is of course that one person can't do it. If several friends come together to finish a shoot, it will be better to use a reflector.

The reflector is cheap and easy to use.

When we can grasp the exposure point of taking portraits at the seaside, we can play with some photos with high-speed shutter and low-speed shutter showing different visual effects, such as the instantaneous jumping of waves as the background to highlight the movement, such as the flow effect of time stagnation.

Different visual effects of high-speed shutter and slow shutter

Third, don't be too superstitious in the future.

It is undeniable that most blockbusters are presented through a little modification in the later period. But you should know that for beginners, if the details are not well controlled and the color overflows, PS will become yes in the later period. Destroy the movie? The behavior of. Later, for photographers, the focus is no longer on the efforts of color matching and color stripping, but more on using the information of highlights and dark parts saved in RAW format to reappear.

Although PS can achieve more shocking photo effects in the later stage, there are also some efforts that we can make easier and more real in the early stage than in the later stage. For example, we can paint medical vaseline on the UV mirror to create a seaside portrait photography blockbuster with partial hazy effect. But remember to use medical vaseline to clean anti-ultraviolet glasses and use alcohol to restore cleanliness.

Wonderful use of medical vaseline in seaside portrait photography

Many white people often see the photographer's seaside portrait, which will be mistaken for the result of pure PS post-processing, but in fact, the blockbuster is only the improvement of visual effect at most. Learn how to shoot portraits by the sea, don't rely too much on PS in the later stage, and do a solid foundation of photography technology in the early stage. Basically, the original film can be as beautiful and moving.