Learning to use lighting to achieve the perfect baby photo

Photography is actually the one kind of use of light and shadow, baby photography is no exception. Even if it's just simple life records, we should not be perfunctory. Just spend a bit of idea, you will not only catch the wonderful expressions, action, but more of the light to help you achieve finished shooting of beauty. There are totally six common use light which are surface light, side light, the inverse side light, backlighting, head light, the bottom light. For baby photography, you only need to master side light, reverse side light, backlight, other three please try to avoid, because they do not look good for baby photography.

Side light is the basic skills of photography. Light and shadow, children' facial contour will be with three-dimensional effect. When shooting, we often use about 30 to 60 degrees of the shooting incident Angle, of course, this does not mean that you cannot shoot with other incident angles, but these angles are conventional and practical. And side light is the simplest way to practice nothing better than single lamp flash practice. Just still don't recommend use flash for baby photography, as it is not good for the baby.

Reverse side light. This is a rear side to shoot the light, let most of the face in the shadows, small part in bright. And the front side light has the opposite effect. For example, the light from the rear side makes the face is largely in the shadows, while high light is drawn the outline of the contour position.

Backlight. This should be regarded as the most difficult to master light way. But once you have mastered it, it will be the easiest to shoot beautiful photo. Usual whenever there is a backlight shooting opportunity I will not let go. Just backlighting, the reason why backlight is hard to shoot is because of the high light environment, most of the default camera evaluation metering mode will carry out that characters under explosion, so shoot out of the characters often appear dark. So in this case, on the use of flash or reflective plate fill light for the characters.

But, baby photography is not the same, it is difficult go out with these tools, so try to use m file for facial side light, use other automatic can also optic metering mode with proper exposure compensation, or spot metering or techniques. In a word, there are many ways, take more and test more to choose your own way. However the simplest way is shooting backlit mode or a micro single open face recognition! Camera for face automatic metering for backlighting shooting has been no technical content!

Of course, it is not necessarily to figure the backlight shooting silhouette bright, sometimes silhouette is also a good choice. This article from the exposure, focus and light these three aspects as far as possible to introduce the early shooting operation. But each camera, algorithm, menus are not the same. As long as the master of these based on knowledge, what kind of camera and lens on our hand, you will be successfully completed the shooting, at least the bright and clear of photographs is not a big problem.