How to take good-looking travel photos and bid farewell to the photos taken by my boyfriend?

The reason why many people don't look good when taking pictures is mostly the disharmonious composition. The term composition comes from a course called composition in western fine arts. You can call it framing in photography. In my opinion, there is no right or wrong composition. No matter how the composition is made, the purpose is to make the picture look concise and novel. However, before you become a master, the following common composition techniques may help you. Come and move a small bench to draw the key points:

1. Trigonometry

Divide the picture into three equal parts, or divide it into nine squares, and place the subject at the intersection of the nine squares, with the four focuses in the middle being the golden line 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 and observe the environment. You can use windows and doorframes to set a frame element. I don't have a ready-made picture at hand, so the following two sources are:

4. Contrast or form a relationship between the subject and the background:

5. Diagonal composition:

Diagonal composition.

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

You should learn to make good use of the angle of the object itself, such as the turret of the Forbidden City, and find the right position and shoot it well.

6. Symmetric composition:

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

There are two commonly used concepts in taking photos: foreground and background. That is, you are a photographer, and you must have heard of 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 blur, and the beauty of the photos is instantly improved.

Here are some tips for shooting the blurred background:

1. Shooting at close range

Because the lens of the mobile phone is wide angle, it is impossible to shoot the blurred background at a long distance. My many practices have proved that when the distance between the mobile phone and the object is about 2cm, the blur effect is the best.

2. Open the distance between the background and the subject

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

3. Large aperture and telephoto shooting

Now many smartphones are equipped with large aperture mode and telephoto mode. The following picture shows the official sample of iphone7 Plus, which is 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 a relatively spectacular scenery is to pay attention to "early morning and one night", from sunrise to 9: in the morning, and from around 4: in the afternoon to sunset. During this time, the illumination angle is relatively low, the light is soft, the color temperature is good, and the probability of taking a good photo is very high. However, the chances of taking a good photo under strong light are not great, so try to avoid shooting in the big sun at noon 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.

There are two tricks. First, determine the focus area and metering area. As all children's shoes with iphone know, there is a box in the middle when taking pictures, that is, where the box points, and the camera will use this place as the calculation standard to determine the focus and exposure. When shooting a sunset, if you focus on the ground, the sky will be pale. If you focus on the sky, the sky will show more details and create a silhouette effect.

Second, when shooting the sky, you can turn on the HDR function to enrich the details to the maximum extent:

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

To reduce noise and show more details, we need to turn on the professional mode of mobile phone here. We can take a beautiful night scene photo through exposure control, HDR, white balance, sensitivity (ISO) and shutter speed adjustment. The usual method is to reduce the sensitivity to ensure noise, and by the way, we can reduce the exposure compensation 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, it is recommended to equip with a tripod. If there is no tripod to lean against the surrounding railings or glass, the equipment can be stabilized and jitter can be avoided.

Finally, let's talk about color briefly. A good photo is not only taken in the early stage, but also colored in the later stage. However, after using the filter for a period of time, I seldom use the filter that is exaggerated or too sugary, such as LOMO or HDR. Even when taking pictures, I like to use the color of the object itself:

or adjust it to gray-white tone or black tone:

I found that if you have photos that you are dissatisfied with, but the composition is not bad, you can consider adjusting it to black-and-white tone, and the grid will be full immediately. Commonly used color matching software is nothing more than the common masters of Mix filters in the world, such as VSCO, Cymera and Instasize. If you find 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 for color matching. As long as your idea is good enough, you won't worry about making a big movie.