Light is the wings of photo

Whether in the mountains, sea, lake, and even the side of the road, the black card technique allows us to fine equilibrate light measure of each area in the picture. There are a lot of black card tricks tutorial on the network, here are some experiences from people who are good at using black card.

The real focus of shaking the black card

When it comes to shake the black card, I think the real key has two, but also return all the pictures to the most fundamental, that are "observation of composition and the environment light and " controlling of metering and the shutter time". Because in these years in the process of taking pictures, no matter which corner, I can see photography enthusiasts was shaking black card, because of this, so also often see many misconceptions about the black card, or to a roll at random. Actually black card all kinds of skills, as long as carefully search, on the Internet can find all kinds of black card style, or even thousand of black card technique, but if you don't have the two most basic ideas, even if know all kinds of shaking black card technique, you will not get its maximum efficiency. Priority to take good black card works, the composition and observation of environment light, if do this, and your work is half the battle.There is a concept need to be clarified. If half in the composition is full of shadow, and the other half is the light up the sky or trees, then shook the black card in the light and shadow border to brighten the dark part, this is wrong idea! Because there is no light, an object becomes dull, and the shaded part is cool color and the bright part which the sun shine is warm, such pictures shaking success will be full of contradictions.

At this point, it is better to waiting or change the angle of view, when the sunlight in the dark department start shooting again! And capture the terminator, you can use water, the lake reflected the skylight, careful metering, get the time lags of up and down shake black card, which is easy to do a good photograph.

Everybody tried to understand a problem, do you need the wind when flying a kite? The photo like flying kites. When there is wind, against the wind and let the kite go, kite can fly to heaven! And there is no wind, how to pull the kite and how you running hard, once you stop, kite still fall to the ground. The kite need for wind power, what is needed when you take a photo? The answer is "light", light is the wings of photo, with the light, you can get a good photo! The dark part no matter how to shake, it cannot become bright. If not on the shore, waterfront, careful observation of the environment of a blade of grass, as long as the light shine to the place as a foreground can also be increased success probability of shaking black card.

How to control the screen bright, the dark department control in your reaction shutter time is one of the most important key of shooting black card works. For example, after sunrise, you should try to think a way to reduce the shutter time, because no matter how to shrink aperture or plus minus lens, the shutter is often higher than 1/125 or even 1/250 of a second, at this time, I often saw some friends shoot directly to sunshine and shake the black card, and a lot of people exclaimed shaking success! Actually think about it seriously, how fast time is 1/125 or 1/250 of a second, I believe that he is successful, but success is not the cause of the black card, but didn't shake. I also believe that photo exposure should be no problem, the reason is that the composition of a picture without shaking black card, the environment of high and low contrast in the sunlight, the exposure value has been in the dynamic range of camera can be allowed. When filming twilight, you can use the water reflected the sky, in the form of shaking black card to complete a good visual works.

Actually pictures to the later, the emphasis is not for whether the exposure is perfect or not, but whether to control the camera to receive enough exposure, let the light in the photo will not overexposure, and there is a let a person wandering in the sunshine. Shadow is the whole all the required exposure time, so at the time of the shooting, timely catch your beats, while countdown grasp the side of the own rhythm, and by the camera observes the overexposure and underexposure warning or histogram to examine exposure results. As for shaking the carte Noire actually not to blur residue, how to shake, how to swing? As long as to experience, you will be able to seize the trick, but please be sure to remember the previous two key: "master light and composition" and "do a good job of district metering work, and in your grasp of the shutter time completed photos.