​8 tips for novice photographers

First, interesting prospect

Foreground is an important factor in photographic composition. As part of a photograph, they can cause the effect of highlighting the subject, canvas prints increasing the sense of space and depth in the photograph. Therefore, in the photographic composition, the correct use of the foreground and the background can make the scene in the photo more harmonious and unified, thus more appealing. In order to achieve this simulation effect, some foreground must be used to create the illusion and make the picture look more spatial.

How to use the foreground?

1. Lead the subject

The most common is to use the foreground to direct the viewer's gaze to the main body. Cooperate with foreground with wide Angle lens, online canvas prints also can be dimensional feeling and deepness feeling exaggerate, but right now, foreground had better have the effect of guiding line of sight, for example, the use of beautiful winding mountain road leads to the village, with a row of same trees leads to tall tower.

2. Reinforce the contrast

You can include some black objects or silhouettes in the foreground. To form a strong contrast, and then the faint light background to emphasize out. For example, in the picture below, the black stone in the foreground highlights the sky behind, extra large canvas prints australia making the composition especially vivid.

3. Spice it up

When taking landscape photos, anything can be used to add interest to the foreground, thus giving the photo a sense of depth. It can be trees, animals, buildings or vehicles, but they must be relevant to the whole picture. Otherwise, the whole picture will become inconsistent and destroy the overall mood. The following image USES the wooden stake as the foreground, successfully bringing the distance of the sky behind, while also making the composition less monotonous.

Use natural light

Natural light is the light that shines on the earth from the sun. Not only the sunshine that points to clear day, also include the light that overcast, rain, snow, fog weather place reflects the light that come out, still have the moonlight of the night and the light that indoor do not have artificial illumination to see, these belong to natural light limits.

Light is a tool, and whether you can use it well depends on your training, but imagination is more important. The photographer must learn to observe the light and its effects, no matter what light conditions, you can change the effect, as long as the foot shift, the light has different changes. Light itself is in many different forms, photographers should be good at choosing the most suitable form to achieve a special purpose.

When shooting with natural light, the following considerations are mainly considered:

1. The light intensity

The bright light of spring and summer gives people a feeling of dazzling, lively and vibrant. Autumn winter season, dim light suits to express melancholy, halcyon and implicative mood. Photographers can use this difference in light intensity to better highlight the characteristics of the subject to reflect the shooting intention.

2. The light quality

The quality of the light has nothing to do with its intensity. It can be direct light from a hot source, or reflected light from the surface of the object being hit. Direct light is dazzling, contrast is big, can cause clear and outstanding shadow. The reflected light is soft, the contrast is small, can cause gray fuzzy shadow or no shadow at all. It can show the shape of the subject and reproduce its original appearance in a delicate and natural way.

(3) To light

Light direction refers to the direction of light. The photographer should study the different poses and special effects of his subject under different lighting conditions. When the photographer is facing away from the sun, the subject is in front of the light. When viewed in side or back light, it can be quite striking. These are all artistic effects caused by different directions of light.

3. Diversity and unity of composition

Although there are many rules of composition, the central message is one of diversity and unity. The unity of diversity is the application of the law of unity of opposites in art. Diversity is the unity of contradictions, used in the composition of the picture, it means that the picture should not only be diverse and varied, but also be unified and regular, not messy. The camera pictures of different scenes should strive to achieve diversity and unity. The application of diversity and unification in the picture composition, specifically speaking, is to arrange each object reasonably in the picture according to the principle of highlighting the subject, so as to achieve the unity of content and form.

Four, special, exaggerated

In a nutshell, seeking change in unity is distinctiveness. The specificity in composition is not just the "specificity" of the visual image, but also the specificity of the author's conception. Photography is inseparable from idea-the subjective factor of the creator. The exaggerated modeling of photography art is the sum of people's subjective expression thoughts and the reappearance of the lens.

The special and exaggeration in photography can be divided into the following forms:

1. Exaggerate

Deformation and exaggeration is first of all a kind of psychological needs of creation. Modern photographic art pays much attention to the deformation of the picture. According to the creation psychology and intention, the photographer USES a variety of lenses and technical skills to make the specific image of the scene appear exaggerated deformation, so as to express some strong emotions and feelings of the author.

2. Exaggerated innuendo

By means of photography technology, consciously screening, controlling and changing the transformation of tone can produce exaggerated effect of tone. For example, the use of a variety of filters to change the tone effect and contrast intensity, the use of post-production methods to separate the tone, the production of wind trace effect, and in the shooting of special light produced by the high, low and silhouette photos.

3. Color exaggeration

Color photography itself has been the nature of color hyperbole transformation. In color photography, the use of daylight color film shooting under the lights of the scene, color to warm color hyperbole; On the contrary, exaggerate to cool tone. The use of filters, flash color sheet local irradiation can be exaggerated color conversion. In the process of post-production, color separation is used to change the color of the picture into the exaggerated color block of color woodcut. Color exaggeration can not only be a picture of unity, generalization, and more decorative and lasting appeal.

Five, the character poses

In portrait photography, the pose of the model is one of the important elements of the picture composition. Most photography enthusiasts do not have many opportunities to shoot professional models, many times a friend or net friend as a model. Reasonable arrangement of the shooting plan, mastering the key points of portrait shooting, mobilizing the emotional state of the model, learning to use different props and posing methods in various scenes, have an important impact on shooting a good man.

In order to make the pose beautiful, you must master the following tips

1. Keep your head and body in a straight line. When the body is facing the camera, the head should be turned slightly to the left or right for an elegant and vivid picture.

2. Never parallel your arms and legs. It could be one or both. Such, can cause already move feeling, pose abounds change again.

3. Try to keep your shape curvy. It is necessary for the female subject to show her attractive curves.

4. Avoid sitting down. When showing the subject sitting, don't let him or her sit in a chair with the whole body as usual. Can let its move the body forward, sit close to the side of the chair, and keep the chest straight in the abdomen, so you can avoid shoulder drop bump.

5. The lens should be far from close. Because when the lens is very close to the subject, it is prone to distortion. Therefore, the camera should choose a lens with proper focal length and keep the lens at a certain distance from the character.

Avoid distortion

Photography is through the camera to show the perspective of three-dimensional space, different from the perspective of painting principle. When the photographer USES ordinary camera to frame the scene, only when the camera is kept horizontal, the vertical line of the building will remain vertical in the photo, and its perspective will have the perspective effect of one or two points in the painting. This limits the use of ordinary camera building flexibility, especially in the ground, during the filming of a high-rise building on the ground of the lower picture often seem to be too much, and the top of the building cannot be intake screen, if the camera to shoot up, while the top of the building was taken into the picture, but the original vertical lines on the ground it will up together, form a three-point perspective in painting, photography, it is commonly known as "perspective distortion".

In buildings as take pictures of the objects, except for the kind of deliberately express visual impact in gradient or dramatic composition works, in most cases, people are still used to accept the effect of one or two point perspective in painting, namely buildings remain vertical in the pictures, because this is the average man look at the Angle of architecture, see the world the most commonly used.

How to avoid architectural perspective "distortion"?

1. Keep the camera level while keeping the camera level, the buildings in the picture will not produce perspective distortion.

2. Increase the height of shooting point when shooting high-rise buildings; choose the shooting point on the roof of nearby multi-storey buildings or the roof of high-rise buildings to avoid perspective distortion in the picture.

3. Use a perspective adjustment camera or perspective adjustment lens (as opposed to a normal camera).

Seven, the use of props

It seems that in the shooting of a variety of subjects are not without some photography props, here we take food photography for example. Props play a significant role in food photography. Different cuisines, different utensils and different styles use different props. But prop also is not more had better, normal put 1-2 ok, too much can appear very messy, have no primary and secondary.

8. Never stop filming

Shoot anywhere, anytime. When you stop filming, your mind starts to slow down. When you doubt yourself, your creativity starts to lose... So you have to keep shooting, don't let yourself fall into the hole of fantasy, once you get into fantasy, you have to climb out, photos on aluminum pick up your camera, and keep shooting.