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​How to find inspiration for shooting

​How to find inspiration for shooting

How to find inspiration for shooting

The monotony of shooting will not only bring about fatigue, but also destroy many inspirations. When you meet the bottleneck of shooting, how to find the inspiration? In fact, if you can pay attention, record, inspiration may be around.

Add emotion to your work.

The mood in the picture is the soul of a good photograph, both in the eyes of the observer and the viewer. You need to be taken in your guide during your subject, let they reveal true sentiment, relative to the photographer will only pressing the shutter doesn't talk and chat with customers to create a relaxed and active mood photographer can let customers more at ease.

Most of the clients are not professional models, they will not in control of their expressions and movements, if you just guide them to pose are likely to be counterproductive, get can only be stiff movements and expressions. A mature photographer should guide customers to express their emotions during communication. Only the real ones are the most beautiful.

Try to blur.

There are many ways to achieve motion blur. You can capture the movement of the body or shift your camera. The easiest way to blur the motion is to slow the shutter speed and allow the subject to do some movement. If it's good, it will add some interesting art elements to the work.

3. Shooting macro distance.

The traditional macro photography is always linked with flowers and insects, resist his rushed into the garden to find little ants of impulse, the macro innocent as the good method of isolation of image details.

How to find inspiration for shooting

4. Looking for reflection

Find your theme and create creative images through a mirror or surface.

Try defocusing.

Whether intentionally or accidentally, sometimes out-of-focus images will also is very beautiful, but not all out of focus is good (in fact, the vast majority of out-of-focus are wrong), pay attention to the composition and emotional expression.

Hugs aren't perfect.

Perfection is rare, but beauty is everywhere. What we need more is to find beauty in the imperfect, to find order in disorder, and to search for eternity in fragments. We live in a real world, and we need to use our eyes to find moments of beauty from the daily grind.

7. Double exposure

For film players, heavy exposure is not new, just as its name implies is repeated exposure on a film twice, get two overlapping images, if you are clever, can get very impressive work.

8. Binary images

Duplex image is the two plates are placed side by side, but not simple casual puzzle, but the place two associated works together, complementary to each other as a context and can tell a complete story.

9. Triple image.

A photo as well as duplex image, more easier to say a story, but must pay attention to the image sequence and direction of the configuration, sometimes a different order may bring different look and feel of the viewer.

10. Shoot through objects.

Sometimes outlook is placed a few small items, such as leaves, focus on the vision, prospects are in a state of completely out of focus at this time, you can to create a hazy vision theme framework, also can give your work add some cool artistic effect.

Try different perspectives.

The next time you find yourself still shooting the same theme in the same way, step back and rethink your shooting strategy. If you're used to seeing with your eyes, try using your waist level, and if you're used to a horizontal composition, try a vertical composition. Different perspectives allow you to look at your work in a different light and find ways to really fit in with your practice.

Highlight a certain color.

We are in a beautiful and colorful world. Don't be afraid of bold and bright colors when going out to take pictures. Sometimes a prominent color is more likely to highlight the theme. But don't do that in the late stage and just keep one color and all the rest of it in black and white, and to be honest, it's really low.

13. Shooting black and white

And on the contrary, the challenge is shot in black and white images, of course, if you can use a digital camera and later works will be converted to black and white, or set on the camera shooting black-and-white images directly. The most important thing to do in black and white is to look for contrast and the use of grayscale.

14. Shooting shadows

Photography is the art of light, the light is the shadow, is the use of shadow photograph each photographer compulsory courses, to master each time period have been cast down to the characteristics of the shadow of the sun Angle, believe that will help you make good work.

20th Mar 2018

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