​How to operate shadows in shooting

How to operate shadows in shooting

Photography is the art of light and shadow, the so-called "light", canvas prints online is the light and shadow. Every point on the light fine micro change can cause the different of works and the existence of the shadow but also add more fun to picture. We often upset for the shadow in the photography is often worked hard to solve the problem of insufficient light. But change an Angle to think, the shadow can actually help photographers to tell stories and to enhance the expression of emotion and visual impact.

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How to use the shadow and contrast to create dramatic canvas prints image? The key is to forget the shadow detail. Don't feel sorry for missing shadow detail, because in fact you don't need these details. HDR all details clear thinking doesn't work here; you don't need to do it with everything.

Shadow is dark and mysterious, it not only can enhance the expressional power of work, also in the largest extent stimulated the imagination of the audience. To focus your attention on the shadow, you can create works full of strong contrast, today's popular minimalist design, and focus on the shadow, in some cases, but also can make your work with the simplicity of the minimalist. You need to use of sensor's dynamic range: let the specular light, let the shadow stays the same. If in the case of the light is strong enough, the shadow will only become enough of it contains a small amount of detail.

The strong light can create a dramatic picture. When you see such a striking image: the shadow of comparative and intense, may instinctively immediately converts it into black and white. Because of the high contrast scene looks more suitable for the form of black and white. Removal of color to a certain extent, emphasizes the depth of the shadow, and makes the work become more special. You can adjust the transparency by Lightroom increase contrast or to make contrast to the more aggressive. Large area can be applied to not only the shadow of the scenery, can also be applied in the portrait.

Looking for natural light and shade in sharp contrast. This technique is similar to the art of drawing, we can see that the main body in the picture is more highlights, shadows make it stereoscopic images, combined with bright colors, work became like a piece of canvas prints works harmony. Still life photography often requires intense light and shade contrast scenes, make the subject more stereo feeling.

Silhouette should be a large area of the shadow of the most widely used in daily shooting, silhouette photography believes everyone is familiar with, a lot of photographer’s silhouette photographs taken under backlight. The key is to through the performance object appearance posture and highlight the outline of the subject, the subject is often only has black silhouette in the photo, does not contain any details. Silhouette photography subjects can be a person, thing, or a scene. A portrait of the simple through the form or color always can quickly attract the attention of the audience.

If you put your camera is set in auto mode or aperture or shutter priority mode) trying to shoot a shadow, the result might be too bright. Because, this is, after all, the function of the camera: details of exposure to earn enough brightness. However, this is not always what we want, use the shadow is a typical example. You need to manually change your camera's parameters, to ensure that the shadow is still in the dark. The following several ways to help you do this:

No.1 Set your camera to manual mode. This is a senior photographer of preferred mode. In manual mode, you need to set the aperture, shutter speed, ISO value. If you're not sure should use what kind of aperture shutter, you can put the numerical value is copied to the automatic mode, refer to the automatic mode supporting parameters are given, and then according to their own needs to adjust them.

No.2 the use of exposure compensation. If you're trying to film, found that appears on the LCD screen works too bright, you can simply adjust the camera's exposure compensation to keep the shadow of the dark. Almost every one camera, even if the card machine and camera phones will have this setting. With this set, you can easily increase the exposure or lower leg, the canvas prints images become brighter or darker, until you look at right. If you used in the screen shot, may directly apply colours to a drawing shows that in most cases the shadow will be too bright, only then reduce exposure compensation can be.

No.3 Lock your exposure. If you have a digital SLR camera, it will have an ae lock function. Using ae lock, first of all, you can use does not include the scene shadow, or some other area with the bright color to fill up your work, let your camera exposure to automatic calculation. Then you press the AE - L key lock them. It will freeze exposure Settings, so you can to composition. At this time, the image to include the shadow, but the camera does not recalculate exposure, not increase exposure because of the shadow. In this way, you will get a perfect exposure, light details are fully performance and deep shadows. Or, you can simply write down a few numbers, dial to manual mode, completely bypass the ae lock this step.

No.4 Surrounded by exposure. Exposure is surrounded with different exposure value to get photos of a series of content is the same. Part of high-grade built-in the function of the camera, it has special BKT buttons, or have the Settings in the menu. If so, you can think about how many photographs, and the interval of exposure. The simplest is three times the exposure, for example, the first one to normal exposure, the second take underexposed and the third to take excessive exposure; Or through several different exposure compensation to shoot. If not with the camera functions, you also can be finished by the late photo.

HDR is now the trend of being abused, but perhaps HDR effect does not apply to all the shots, we need to abandon the idea of must catch a lot of shadow detail. Don't need to think if you can't fully capture the shadow detail at the same time, there is some kind of technical defects, we all know that in fact is not the case. Let's use the interaction of light and shadow to create interesting and dynamic composition, create some mysterious space to the audience, and let their imagination to fill the connotation of the works. Photography should be is the result of chemical action of light and shadow.