What are the skills of tourism photography and what are the most common mistakes in tourism photography?

What are the skills of tourism photography?

Nowadays, digital cameras have become a necessary equipment for people to travel abroad. Many people like to record the scenery on the journey, the unusual things that happened on the road and the unusual people they met. I often have to take pictures of scenery during my trip, and I will take pictures when I catch up with good weather and good places.

Next, let's take a look at the ten most common mistakes in tourism photography.

Don't do your homework before you leave

Travel must be planned. If you travel with a group, you can eat less snacks. If you travel freely and don't do your homework, you will feel sleepy and waste time during the trip. The most important thing is to refer to Tai _. So do your homework before you leave, travel smoothly and return to China smoothly. It's fun to travel. Smooth is the best.

To do your homework, of course, you must first understand the various conditions of the destination, including transportation, accommodation, weather, temperature, culture, scenic spots, food and so on. These things used to be reference books, but now it is basically enough to look at other people's trips online and learn from them.

Traffic has always been a big headache. Solve the transportation and accommodation problems. Even if you prepare most of the trips, the rest depends on how you want to play. But when it comes to taking pictures, you still have to do your homework after all. For example, if you go to the seaside to play, then the camera should consider waterproof characteristics. If you want to take pictures, a three-proof camera is essential.

You should also do your homework in advance when choosing scenic spots. What season and where are the beautiful places? These are all preparations that must be made to take a good photo. For example, Japan enjoys cherry blossoms in March and red leaves in 165438+ 10. If you are aiming at these seasonal attractions, you should prepare the travel date and specific itinerary in advance.

What kind of equipment should be used for traveling photos is also related to the local environment and humanities. If it is an open scenic spot, you can take long-distance close-ups with telephoto equipment. If it is a city with many tall buildings, then the medium and short focal length will be more appropriate. In a word, it is a very important process to do your homework before traveling, whether taking pictures or not.

Go with the flow.

Travel is bound to be crowded with people, especially on holidays. There are so many people who want to take pictures, but they are generally defeated by the people in the pictures, and finally they have to give up taking pictures or something.

In fact, if you want to take good photos when traveling, sometimes you need to give up some popular attractions. There are always some good places with few people and good scenery in the tourist area. These places are usually not widely publicized because they are not popular attractions. The end result is that the more people there are, the more people will go. Going out to play turned out to be a visit to people. And it's crowded, not to mention taking pictures, and the mood for traveling is gone.

Not following the crowd has many advantages, and it is not a hot spot that is completely bypassed. It is also a good choice to use this time to visit big scenic spots. 24 hours, there is always leisure and few people. Take the minority route, you will be much more relaxed, except that you can finally take pictures. There is no need to queue up for consumption.

Take pictures without opening the mirror cover.

This is a stupid thing to listen to. In fact, many people have done it. Many people who use SLR cameras will make this mistake. I couldn't see anything as soon as I turned it on, then shouted that the camera was broken, and finally found that I didn't open the mirror cover.

It's embarrassing that the picture will not be displayed without opening the lens cover. If you use a paraxial camera, such as Leica, the result of not opening the lens cover is often that there is no problem in framing. I was very excited to find that the lens cover was not opened and nothing was photographed. Moreover, if you always wander in the crowd with Leica for a long time without opening the mirror cover, the sharp eyes from others will make you feel humiliated for a while.

Not opening the lens cover usually looks a bit silly, but for some card cameras, not opening the lens cover will block the extension of the telescopic lens, which may lead to the damage of the lens assembly.

Unwilling to compose music in two steps

Many people love zoom lenses, which are easy to use, especially those with large zoom lenses, which are especially popular with ordinary users. Of course, the quality of this kind of large zoom lens is usually not very good. Just record the itinerary. Photographers don't like this kind of products very much. More people will use small zoom and fixed focus lenses.

The convenience of zoom lens lies in the convenience of composition, but even zoom lens has a zoom range, beyond which you can't compose at will. This is the limitation of the so-called lens. For people who use the zoom lens from the beginning, once the zoom lens's framing range can't meet the composition requirements, they think that they can't shoot this kind of picture, and rarely feel that they can complete a satisfactory shooting in two more steps. Especially those friends who buy camera lenses, once they find that the composition of distant scenery is not good, they want to buy a telephoto lens. In fact, it is more effective to take two more steps.

In addition to really shooting the scenery on the other side, you can generally make the composition more perfect in two steps, and the reason for walking and zooming is still very real. The zoom lens can provide some convenience in composition, but when the zoom lens can't meet the requirements, it needs to be moved to get a better composition.

Dare not take pictures with high ISO.

Anyone who knows photography knows very well that high ISO will lead to poor image quality, so many people worry about poor image quality, insist on taking pictures with low ISO, and finally get a batch of blurred photos. For some friends, in order to pursue better picture quality, they would rather do things reluctantly.

Taking pictures is a very casual thing. If you are limited by the so-called rules and regulations, the final photos will inevitably be unsatisfactory. There is no fixed rate as to whether to take photos with high ISO. It is important to pursue high image quality, but we should not put the cart before the horse. If you use low ISO to take pictures because of maintaining high image quality, you can only take a picture that is blurred because the shutter speed is not enough, which is not worth the candle.

Nowadays, digital cameras all say that the image quality should be improved. To put it bluntly, it is to improve the image quality at high ISO, because most cameras are not very different at low ISO. Whether a camera has good image quality mainly depends on the imaging performance under high ISO. Now the ISO of the camera is as high as 6400, which is available. In most poor lighting environments, the success rate of high-sensitivity shooting is high and the image quality is guaranteed. Judging from the current performance of new machines, there are not a few cases in which they dare not use them because they are worried that high sensitivity will affect the image quality. There's no need to worry too much and miss the shoot.

You don't need a tripod to shoot night scenes.

Tripod is an important accessory for photography. For a serious photographer, almost all the shooting needs a tripod. However, in those well-lit environments, when the shutter speed is fast enough, even if a tripod is not used, a high success rate can be guaranteed. But that's not what night shots say.

Taking pictures at night, the light can hardly guarantee hand-held shooting. Unless you have an iron hand, you can only get a higher shutter speed by improving ISO. Even if ISO is improved, the shutter speed cannot be guaranteed to meet the requirements. Therefore, tripod is a necessary accessory for shooting night scenes.

When shooting at night with low ISO, the shutter speed usually exceeds 1 sec. So we need not only the support of tripod, but also the stability of tripod. Those tripods that can be stable for tens of seconds without slight jitter are necessary equipment for photographers. Even if the requirements of ordinary camera users are low, it is important to have a tripod for night shooting.

SLR cameras shoot with automatic gears.

In the eyes of many people, SLR camera is an artifact of taking pictures and a top-level photographic equipment. I thought that if I bought a SLR camera, I could take satisfactory photos at will during my trip. This wishful thinking is really wrong. Although SLR cameras have high performance, they also have high requirements for users. It's not a camera that can be controlled by hand. You need to know something about photography.

In the field of SLR cameras, low-end products are usually equipped with specific scene modes such as automatic transmission. It is wrong to think that these modes can be as smart as card cameras. Although the principle of automatic transmission on SLR cameras is similar to that of ordinary card cameras, the settings of SLR cameras are biased towards specialization, so the automatic transmission mechanically applied to SLR cameras is not very intelligent. For example, the selection of focusing has only a few focus points and the coverage is much less than that of card cameras. Sometimes it is impossible to focus on the desired place at will by using the autofocus selection function at will. Judging whether to use a flash in this situation is often impossible to control at will, and the photos taken naturally have various problems.

The most commonly used gear on SLR cameras is M/A/S/P gear, including manual and semi-automatic exposure gear. These gears can make SLR cameras more comfortable to use, and of course you need to know some photography knowledge. If you don't know, you'd better not set it to automatic, but learn it first and look at the camera operation instructions.

Flash is the main light source for taking pictures.

Many cameras have flashlights, and this convenient light supplement tool is very useful in many situations. Especially when the light is insufficient, there is a flash that allows you to take higher photos in the case of insufficient light.

But the flash is not omnipotent, and its flash effect will be affected by power and illumination angle, so we say that the flash is used as auxiliary light. If there is only one light source for lighting in an environment, the photos taken in this case are usually not good, which often happens when traveling again. At this time, you need to use other settings to make up for it.

Generally speaking, when using the flash, the exposure of the background is adjusted by the exposure parameters of the camera itself, and the exposure of the subject is determined by the exposure parameters of the camera and the power of the flash. However, the lighting ability of the flash is limited. If the flash is used in a dark environment and the power of the flash is not enough to illuminate the background, the subject will be bright and the background will be dark. Whether this kind of photo looks good or not, everyone will know when they take it. So if you want to improve the background brightness, you can adjust the aperture, reduce the shutter speed and improve ISO. After the background exposure is improved, the exposure of the subject does not need much flash lighting. When the compensation power of the flash lamp required for the exposure of the subject is within the rated power, the flash lamp will mainly be used as auxiliary light. The shooting effect is better at this time.

Lack of communication with the subject

Going out to take pictures Many people want to take pictures of the local culture. At this time, if it is blind shot, the theme is obviously unclear and the photos are eclipsed. Then if it is aimed at local people, the documentary significance of the photos will be even greater.

Pictures of such people, it is best to communicate with the subject, and take pictures when allowed, which can reduce contradictions and frictions. After all, people guess that being photographed for no reason is a taboo for most people. If you shoot with the permission of the other party, this harmony will definitely be higher.

Do not pay attention to the use of photos.

Photography is the art of using light. If there is no light, there is no photo. Therefore, if you shoot on the road, you also need to pay attention to the use of light. Shun light, side light and backlight will have different shooting effects. Common overexposure and underexposure, photos are either too bright or too dark. Usually, automatic or semi-automatic exposure is the result of a set of use without thinking. Even if you don't plan to build anything special, you should adapt to local conditions and make the photos clear and beautiful.

When traveling, the light can't be controlled at will, which is different from the precise lighting in shed shooting. We can only make good use of ambient light on the spot. Generally speaking, it is safe to take pictures in the light, and the automatic file is used. The light shines from behind you in front of the subject. At this time, the light is even and the contrast is generally small, so it is easier to take photos with accurate exposure and small contrast. This kind of photos are not so dramatic, but generally speaking, they are safer and the automatic files are good.

Side light and backlight will create a great contrast. At this time, we must first think about whether to keep the details of the subject or the details of the background. If you can only choose one, how to control the exposure. Generally speaking, if the subject is backlit, the outline of the subject will be illuminated and the foreground will be relatively underexposed. Using automatic shooting will automatically reduce the exposure to meet most bright scenes. If you need to show the details of the subject, you should use the exposure compensation function to improve the brightness until the subject is properly exposed, and observe whether the background is seriously overexposed. The purpose of using reflector and flash lamp to fill the light of the object is to reduce the contrast and show the details of the object and background. With regard to the skills of using up all the light in travel, you need to practice more and accumulate experience.

Summary: The purpose of tourist maps is to have fun, and taking pictures is to look good. No one wants to miss the chance of remembering when traveling, so it is very important to use your camera well. Whether you use a mobile phone, a card camera or a SLR camera, mastering the necessary photography skills will enable you to make better records during the tour.