Five skills of taking photos with full flavor of the year

Chinese New Year has come again, such as eating a hearty dinner, visiting relatives and friends to celebrate the New Year, watching movies, visiting flower markets, setting off fireworks and firecrackers, and the Lantern Festival. The holiday is not long, but it is enough to arrange some programs. Among them, taking pictures is naturally normal. As a photographer, do you prefer to make these scenes more perfect? However, after the Spring Festival, many people look at the photos taken during the festival and often leave a lot of regrets. Either it is underexposed and dark, or the shutter is not enough, which makes everyone a virtual shadow. Many wonderful moments just slipped away.

What should we shoot in the face of those jubilant scenes? How can I get a unique New Year picture? Here are some scene shooting techniques that best reflect the flavor of the Spring Festival, hoping to help you shoot the Spring Festival.

Scene 1: Spring Festival Temple Fair

Spring Festival Temple Fair is held every year, and this year is no exception. Visiting the temple fair is nothing more than tasting snacks, scouring gadgets and having a good time. Every booth is decorated with lanterns, and the streets are bustling and crowded with people. In this scene, you can choose some activities with folk characteristics or themes with Chinese New Year elements to shoot, and it is also a good choice to shoot lively people.

Although the taste of the year is indeed getting weaker every year, people are increasingly hoping to find the taste of China during the Chinese New Year. You can see many products with China characteristics at the annual meeting: Chinese knots, dough figurines, paper cuts and so on. Generally, the stall owners of these booths will be more willing to let photographers take pictures, and the rest is to choose the angle.

In the annual meeting, there will be some special booths every year. In the early years, people who kneaded dough and played with Tang Hua attracted more attention. The effect and atmosphere when shooting at night are relatively strong. But pay attention to the effective selection of flash. Slow flash should be used for synchronization when shooting. When shooting with the built-in flash, the subject should be close to fully illuminate the stall personnel and foreground, and shoot the whole scene with a wide-angle lens.

Abortion is also a good theme. The reasonable application of slow shutter can effectively lengthen the moving portrait and form a virtual shadow. Contrary to static field environment. Pay attention to the choice of exposure time here. The longer the better. Overall control in 2 seconds. At the same time, pay attention to the position of the tripod.

Scene 2: Spring Festival Flower Market

The popularity of the Spring Festival flower market is increasing year by year. Programs that used to be broadcast only in the south are still popular all over the country. The flower market usually lasts from day to night. Choosing a different time to go will have a completely different feeling. According to different regions, the flower market in each place is also very different.

Flower Street is dominated by flowers and new year's goods, the types of flowers will increase every year, and the patterns of new year's goods will be different every year, which is a good opportunity for macro shooting. If you want to take a good macro photo, you must be closer to the subject. There are many precautions in macro shooting, and the shooting during the flower market is similar, but if you simply follow the usual macro shooting method, you will lose the significance of visiting the flower market. Therefore, if you want to take more pictures of successful flowers in the flower market, you must cooperate with the surrounding environment and pay attention to the actions and communication between people.

Users who use DC, it is best to use telephoto macro model, because many gears are designed in depth and there are many flowers in the internal position, so the macro at the wide-angle end is not easy to shoot. Only users with wide angle and macro should give priority to the flowers hanging on the periphery of the booth and placed on the ground, and communicate with the stall owner in advance, mainly not to damage the flowers when shooting. Users who use digital SLR will be better off with a telephoto macro lens, which can better control the distance from flowers. When shooting, you can open your eyes, one eye takes pictures, and the other eye pays attention to the changes in the environment.

There is a problem that must be paid attention to in flower market shooting: white balance. This has nothing to do with the weather, but with the color of the tent at the flower market booth. In addition to the traditional bamboo shed with red, white and blue tape, there are many tents with red or yellow. Shooting objects in this environment during the day will have a considerable color cast. Photographers are advised to take a piece of white paper with them to calibrate the white balance, or shoot in RAW mode and adjust it later. If a large number of photos are taken before the color cast is found, the post-processing capacity will be quite large.

Scene 3: Spring Festival fireworks

With the coming of the new year, fireworks display is one of the indispensable celebration projects in various places. I believe that you not only want to experience this exciting and beautiful moment in person, but also want to record this unforgettable moment in person. In fact, shooting fireworks is much easier than many people think. The simple point is the choice of shooting time and the setting of exposure time. However, if you pay a little attention to the details, you will take a unique photo of fireworks.

One of the difficulties in shooting fireworks is to decide the shooting direction of the camera. The challenge you have to face is to find the shooting direction before the fireworks start-anticipation is the key. Here are some tips for your reference.

Familiarize yourself with the scene in advance: planning is very important. You should arrive at the scene in advance and find a good and barrier-free shooting position. Predict the foreground and background of the photo in advance to ensure that there will be no heads of a group of people in future photos. Pay attention to the place and time of fireworks display-ask the staff for some information. At the same time, you should also consider which lens to use in advance, and it is best not to change the lens during shooting.

Check the level: During shooting, always pay attention to whether the camera is level. This is especially important if you use a wide-angle lens and there are surrounding scenes in the picture. Since the camera is equipped with a tripod, it should always be horizontal.

Horizontal shooting or vertical shooting: In all types of photography, there are two main ways of composition, horizontal shooting (landscape) or vertical shooting (portrait). When shooting fireworks, you can use both. Personally, I think it's better to shoot vertically-especially when the trajectory of fireworks in the vertical direction is long. If you want to take more scenes, or if you want to take photos of multiple fireworks blooming at the same time, then horizontal shooting is also possible.

Remember composition: I find it easy to ignore the viewfinder and look directly at the sky in actual shooting. At this time, you must have a concept of composition in your mind, and remember where your camera is pointing. This exercise will also help you to predict the location of the fireworks' trajectory.

Scene 4: New Year's Eve dinner

Whether eating at home or in a restaurant, it is done indoors. In such an environment, the first problem may be that the shutter is not fast enough, and everyone cheers and laughs enthusiastically, so it is easy to produce virtual shadows when taking portraits. Or indoor light has a great influence on the white balance of photos. Whether it is a white flag lamp or a fluorescent lamp, the photos taken will have a color cast. If you want to restore the environmental color, then setting the white balance becomes a very necessary means.

If your digital camera comes with multiple scene modes, you can make full use of it. According to the setting of the scene, the camera has automatically set many functions accordingly. Users who don't know the aperture, shutter, white balance and sensitivity can also quickly master the use and shooting skills and directly take photos of the reunion dinner.

If you want to shoot food in manual mode, it is best to use spot metering to measure the brightest part of the food, which can clearly show the overall details. The best shooting mode is aperture priority, which can appropriately control the background blur or control the depth of field. Shooting angle, don't just shoot the front, you can shoot 7 or 8 shots from different angles at the same time. So you can choose the most beautiful angle.

Now basically, many cameras have added face recognition technology, which can be said to be of great help to the New Year's Eve. The camera can automatically recognize the face, automatically adjust the aperture shutter according to the lighting conditions at that time, and can also take bright and fully exposed photos of the face without adjusting the parameters. Moreover, when taking group photos, and at present, the face recognition function of some cameras can recognize as many as 10 people's faces, which saves a lot of trouble in metering. Let you easily get the ideal family photo.

Scene 5: Lantern Festival

Lantern Festival is different from temple fair. Temple fairs are mostly about humanities, while Lantern Festival is about lanterns with different shapes. The white balance and exposure compensation need to be carefully adjusted here. Not only professional SLR cameras can be competent for such an environment.

When we shoot with a digital camera, using the program automatic white balance mode or different white balance modes preset by the digital camera will produce different effects. As far as Christmas night scene and lighting shooting are concerned, if we use the automatic or preset tungsten white balance mode of digital camera, then the camera is likely to over-correct the color temperature when imaging, making the picture look pale.

Used for exposure compensation settings. Even if the digital camera you use has a more advanced metering system, when shooting a series of shiny bulbs, the metering system of the digital camera will still overestimate the brightness of the scene lights, making the final picture dark, that is, underexposed. Therefore, when shooting Christmas night scenes and lights, it is necessary for us to compensate the exposure of digital cameras to increase the overall brightness of the picture. As for the exposure compensation value, you can set it between+1EV and +2EV, and the exposure compensation setting within this range can meet almost all your shooting needs.