Summary of Japanese elegant photo shooting skills

1. Use negative film machine, especially manual focusing.

The color level and tolerance of the negative film machine are quite good. Using negative film machine is the key to taking light Japanese photos. Of course, digital photos can also get similar effects through post-processing, but if you look closely, you will still find that numbers are easy to explode when dealing with highlights. Of course, light-colored photos can't be blown out by highlights.

2. Use MF manual focusing lens

With the popularity of digital SLR, there are more automatic AF focusing lenses. Thanks to the use of autofocus lens, everything is in focus accurately. Half-pressing the right eye will make the whole face clear, and narrowing the aperture 1-2 will make the whole face clear. In fact, it is not necessary to focus the photos so accurately. Appropriate defocusing or slight defocusing will make people feel very interesting and attractive, and MF lens is the key.

Choose cloudy weather

On cloudy days, the light is diffuse, so the contrast between light and shade of the photo will not be too great, just within the tolerance range of the negative film, and the color contrast and saturation will be low.

Use negatives

Negative film has high tolerance in tonality, and positive film (reverse film) has tonality, so negative film is most suitable for elegant style shooting.

Step 5 use Kodak200 film

According to my personal experience, Kodak's tone is yellow, and Fuji's tone is green. Of course, the hue is also closely related to the color temperature of the actual shooting scene. However, according to the experience of the last two shots, the Kodak200 Color Plus with a volume of 10 RMB is the best.

Scan with vuescan

After shooting the negative, use vuescan to select the corresponding Kodak200 film base for scanning, which is the easiest to achieve the desired tone at one time. Don't let the shop cleaner ruin your hard work again.

7. Use 120 6x6 camera

120 film can capture more details than 135 film, 6x6 gives people a harmonious and balanced feeling, and looks most comfortable without too much pressure.

8. Use curves to process photos

After scanning, use the curve (Ctrl-M) appropriately in PS. When dealing with curves, lifting the dark part up a little will make the photo feel a little too much, and if necessary, pressing the bright part will be closer.

9. Pay attention to the balance and coordination of the picture

Practice from a simple composition, even if you shoot a watermelon, as long as you grasp one key point at a time, you won't feel that the photo is messy and the feeling will come out.

10. Enjoy a lot of Japanese photos.

Although the mainland is slow to connect with some overseas websites, there are still opportunities to subscribe to some photographers' RSS in some groups of Fotography and flickr. Looking at these works every day will make you closer to these Japanese methods when carrying mirrors.

Of course, the (Sanlian) digital camera can also be post-processed to produce the color of light-colored Japanese photos.

1. In terms of color, use the saturation tool to reduce the saturation of the adjustment layer.

2. Adjust the layer with curves to reduce the contrast and improve the overall brightness. For areas with excessive violence or high pitch, you can pull down the curve and pay attention to the correct output line.

3. When choosing the shooting content, you can pay attention to the colors with high brightness and combine them into a picture.

4. Of course, you can add a little light blue or warm yellow to the photo, and a little magenta can also have the color sense of the film. You can use the curve tool.