Four tips for shooting night scenes with mobile phones in the lecture hall of mobile phone photography

IT 168？ Evaluation in mobile phone photography, one of the most challenging things for mobile phones and people is taking night scenes. In fact, not only mobile phones, but also professional SLR cameras are not easy to shoot good night scenes. Professional cameras can control the camera to shoot at night by setting the sensitivity, setting the aperture and setting the shutter speed. But for mobile phones, it is not easy to control parameters like a camera because of the limited photosensitive elements. Therefore, there are many tips for shooting night scenes with mobile phones to make the night scenes look beautiful.

▲ Mobile Photography Lecture Hall 3 tips for shooting night scenes with mobile phones

1 night shooting three elements, light, accuracy and stability. If you use the mobile phone automatic mode to shoot the night scene, there are three suggestions, that is, light, accuracy and stability. Light is to observe the surrounding light environment, avoid too strong light as much as possible when shooting, pay more attention to the light of the picture, make good use of different environmental light, and shoot interesting pictures. Accuracy refers to choosing the photometric point of the picture. If you want to get a clean night view, you can choose a brighter place as the focus metering point, or you can directly minimize the exposure like Samsung, while stability means holding your hand steadily when holding the mobile phone. Whether in automatic mode or professional mode, when shooting at night, the shutter speed is slow, and it is easy to shake the picture when shooting by hand, resulting in blurred picture. At this time, you can use a mobile phone tripod to stabilize the picture.

▲ Observe the surrounding light environment, and the fast-moving passers-by become the silhouette in front of the advertising signboard. The picture was taken by Samsung Galaxy S6 edge+

▲ Observe the interesting light and shadow combinations around you, such as the combination of tree shadows and light billboards. The picture was taken by Samsung Galaxy S6 edge+

▲ Pay more attention to the interesting architectural light around you.

▲ The dark alleys are in sharp contrast with the faint hawker lights. The picture was taken by Samsung Galaxy S6 edge+

Whether shooting night scenes in professional mode or normal mode, you should pay more attention to the surrounding light environment and interesting things when shooting, and be patient when shooting night scenes. Although you need to take a quick snapshot, you should also take into account the stability of your hands when shooting at night.

2 How to choose a mobile tripod to shoot night scenes Whether it is a camera or a mobile phone, a mobile tripod can be said to be an indispensable tool for shooting night scenes. With a tripod, shooting can be more stable and the photos taken are clearer. But with so many kinds of tripods on the market, which one should you choose?

▲ The commonly used large tripod is more troublesome to carry, but it is suitable for many scenes, the scenery is more suitable, and the heavy tripod is more stable.

▲ Octopus tripod is relatively convenient, and the fixed place is also more casual, but it is more troublesome to shoot the scenery at a high angle.

▲ If you already have a tripod at home, you can choose this mobile phone universal clip.

▲ Use a tripod to get a more stable and clear picture.

Mobile tripod can be said to be the secret weapon for mobile phones to shoot night scenes. Different tripods are suitable for use in different environments. When shooting, it is recommended to start shooting at a fixed time. A fixed time of 2 seconds is enough to avoid shaking your hand to the tripod or mobile phone during the process of pressing the shutter of the mobile phone. Of course, you can also consider Bluetooth shutter.

3 mobile phone professional mode How to play the mobile phone professional mode can be said to be a trick to improve the night scene. Because the size of the photosensitive element of the mobile phone is limited, the biggest reason why the mobile phone makes the picture look bad at night is that there is too much noise, and the reason for the noise is that in the case of poor light, the mobile phone will automatically improve the ISO in exchange for brighter photos, so the professional mode is useful at this time.

Professional mode, as its name implies, is to provide users with professional and adjustable parameters, so that users can adjust themselves and take the photos they want. The two most important parameter data for shooting night scenes are ISO and shutter. By lowering ISO and slowing down the shutter speed, a clean night scene can be obtained.

▲ Select the professional mode from the shooting mode of Samsung Galaxy S6 edge+. After opening, you can see the parameter bar on the right.

▲ Different exposure time can obtain different picture brightness and light trace of traffic flow.

If you want to get a relatively complete and rich traffic light trajectory, you need a longer shutter time to record it. Generally speaking, the faster the shutter speed, the clearer the captured moving object will be, but the darker the picture will be. If the shutter speed is slower, the trajectory of the object will be recorded, which can also be understood as the blur of the moving object, and the brighter the picture. However, long exposure will cause the picture to be too bright. At this time, you can consider adding a dimmer to the lens of the mobile phone. If there is no dimmer, you can use sunglasses instead.

▲ Dimmers or sunglasses can reduce certain light pollution and make the traffic trajectory of the picture look more complete.

▲ The above is the effect of using sunglasses as a dimmer.

▲ You can also use traffic lights and waiting passers-by to form a picture of dynamic and static combination. The picture was taken by Samsung Galaxy S6 edge+

▲ The picture was taken by Samsung Galaxy S6 edge+

▲ In addition to shooting traffic, you can also shoot a wonderful glare circle by manual focusing. The picture was taken by Samsung Galaxy S6 edge+

When shooting night scenes in professional mode, it is necessary to test the appropriate shutter speed according to different ambient light. According to the author's experience, it usually takes about 4 seconds to shoot traffic tracks. Of course, if the outdoor environment is dark enough, you may be able to shoot the beautiful Milky Way, but in general, shooting night scenes in professional mode needs to try different angles and different parameters.

Summarize that every place has beautiful night scenes. Recording beautiful night scenes is not only a challenge for photographers, but also a technical job to test mobile phones. A good night scene needs not only good weather, but also a good mobile phone. Facing different light environments, it is more important to try more. Whether it is the ordinary mode of leisure shooting or the ever-changing professional mode, accumulating more experience is the key.