Five skills of taking photos with full flavor of the year

It's Chinese New Year again. There will be a sumptuous dinner, visiting relatives to celebrate the New Year, watching movies, going to the flower market, setting off fireworks and firecrackers, and the Lantern Festival and so on. The holiday is not long, but it is enough to arrange some programs. Among them, taking photos is naturally normal. As a photographer, do you prefer to shoot these scenes more perfectly? However, many people often leave a lot of regrets when they look at the photos taken during the holidays after the Spring Festival. Either there is insufficient exposure here and it is dark, or there is not enough shutter, which makes everyone a virtual shadow. Many wonderful moments just slipped away.

in the face of those jubilant scenes, what should we shoot? How can I get a unique New Year photo? Here, I would like to introduce 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 some gadgets and making a lively effort. Every stall is decorated with lanterns and the streets are bustling with people. In this scene, we can choose some activities with folk characteristics or subjects 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 getting weaker every year, people are increasingly hoping to find the taste of China during the Chinese New Year. At the annual meeting, you can see many products with China characteristics: Chinese knots, flour figurines, paper cuts and so on. Generally, the stall owners of these booths will be more willing to let photographers shoot, and the rest is to choose the angle.

Every year, there are some distinctive stalls in the annual meeting. In the early years, people who knead dough and play tanghua were more eye-catching. The effect and atmosphere when shooting at night are relatively strong. However, attention should be paid to the effective selection of flash. When shooting, slow flash should be used for synchronization. When shooting with built-in flash, the shooting subject should be close, fully illuminating the stall personnel and foreground, and shooting the whole scene with wide-angle lens.

The flowing stream of people is also a good theme. The reasonable application of slow shutter can effectively lengthen the moving portrait and form a virtual shadow. In contrast to the static field environment. Attention should be paid to the selection of exposure time here. The longer the time, the better. The overall control is 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 rising year by year. Programs that used to be only available in the south are still popular all over the country. The flower market usually lasts from day to night. Choosing different time to go will have completely different feelings. 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 variety of flowers will increase every year, and the pattern of new year's goods will be different every year, so it 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, in order to take more successful photos of flowers in the flower market, we should cooperate with the surrounding environment and pay attention to the actions and communication between people.

users who use DC, it is better to have a telephoto macro model, because many gears are designed in depth, and many flowers are placed in the inner position, so the macro at the wide-angle end is not easy to shoot. Users who only have wide-angle 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 break the flowers when shooting. Users who use digital SLR will be better off with a macro lens with a long focal length, 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 tents in the flower market stalls. In addition to the traditional bamboo shed with red, white and blue tape, there are many tents that use red or yellow. When shooting objects in this environment during the day, there will be considerable color cast. It is suggested that photographers take a piece of white paper with them to calibrate the white balance, or shoot in RAW mode and adjust 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: Fireworks in the Spring Festival

With the coming of the New Year, fireworks display is one of the indispensable celebration projects in various places. I believe that everyone not only wants to experience this exciting and beautiful moment in person, but also hopes to record this memorable moment in person. In fact, shooting fireworks is much easier than many people think. The simple point is the selection of shooting time and the setting of exposure time. However, if you can 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 unobstructed shooting location. Estimate 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 where and when the fireworks are released-you can ask some information from the staff. At the same time, you should also consider which lens to use in advance, and it is best not to change the lens in the middle of shooting.

check the level: during shooting, you should 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.

landscape shot or portrait shot: there are two main ways of composition in all types of photography, landscape shot or portrait shot. When shooting fireworks, both can be used. Personally, I think it is better to shoot vertically-especially when the fireworks have a long trajectory in the vertical direction. If you want to take in more scene environment, or want to take pictures of multiple fireworks blooming at the same time, then horizontal shooting is also ok.

remember the composition: I found that in actual shooting, it is easy to ignore looking at the viewfinder and look directly at the sky. 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 predict the location of fireworks through the trajectory.

Scene 4: New Year's Eve

Whether you eat New Year's Eve at home or solve it in a restaurant, it's all done indoors. In such an environment, the first problem may be that the shutter is not fast enough, and everyone is enthusiastic about toasting and laughing, so it is easy to produce virtual shadows when shooting portraits. Or indoor lighting has a great influence on the white balance of photos. Whether it is white flag lights or fluorescent lights, the photos will be color-cast. If the environmental color is to be restored, then setting the white balance becomes a very necessary means.

If your digital camera comes with a variety of 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 about aperture, shutter, white balance and sensitivity can also quickly master the use and shooting skills and directly take satisfactory 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, so that the overall details can be clearly expressed. The best shooting mode is aperture priority, which can appropriately control the blur of background or control the depth of field. Shooting angle, don't just shoot the front, you can shoot 7 or 8 films 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 a great help for the New Year's Eve. The camera can automatically recognize people's faces, automatically adjust the aperture shutter according to the lighting conditions at that time, and can also take photos with bright faces and full exposure without adjusting parameters. Moreover, when taking group photos, and at present, the face recognition function of some cameras can recognize the faces of up to 1 people, which saves a lot of trouble in metering. Let you easily get an ideal family photo.

Scene 5: Lantern Festival

Lantern Festival is different from temple fairs. Most of the temple fairs are about humanities, while the 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 programmed automatic mode of white balance 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 lamp white balance mode of the digital camera, then the camera is likely to over-correct the color temperature during imaging, making the photographed picture look pale.

for exposure compensation settings. Even if the digital camera you use has a relatively advanced metering system, when shooting a series of shiny light 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 lighting, it is necessary for us to compensate the exposure of the digital camera in order 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.