Take a good still life photo

I usually mainly take some photos of daily life, canvas prints which are basically some small things around me, mostly as a recorder. I keep the pictures I see and find interesting in the way of photos, so my photos are mainly still life.

First of all, I think still life photography is relatively simple and easy to control compared with portrait photography, because when we take a still life, it is mainly a stationary thing. Unlike portraits, a photographer not only controls his or her Angle, but also controls one of your subjects' poses, canvas prints online costumes, and makeup.

In the later aspect, still life photography only involves the color mixing, and portrait photography in addition to the color mixing also needs to be involved in such aspects as peeling and liquefaction. So, if you are starting out, split canvas prints australia you can choose still life to shoot. You can practice color mixing first and then ignore the objective factors of the model and focus your main attention on the color of the photo you take.

Take still life to practice their ability of composition and color mixing, first from easy to difficult, slowly start, this is very helpful for you to learn photography. Let me start by looking at what I need to be aware of in still life photography, so I'm going to send you a few of my personal pieces to take a look at. I've broken up the main colors in the picture into blocks just to give you a sense of what they're like.

First of all, I think the biggest characteristic is that the picture is relatively clean, which is mainly reflected in several aspects. The first is that the main body is relatively clear in the composition of the whole picture, and there is no other debris in the picture. The second is in the color, most cases are cold and light color, will not appear particularly bright or dark color. Finally, the whole looks softer and quieter. So we should look at a photo from the following aspects to consider: composition, tone, highlights, saturation.

Its composition

Frame composition mainly refers to the elements and combinations in a photo, which, to put it bluntly, is similar to your composition. A good photo is usually a simple combination with a clear theme, so that people can know what you want to express at the first sight, without too much clutter or irrelevant elements in it. As I have posted before, the pictures are very simple, maybe the main body is just an object, and there is nothing extra to disturb your vision.

How to take a nice fresh still life photo

Case analysis

Usually when we see a beautiful object or a beautiful scene, we want to take a picture of it, but when we take a picture, we don't think about whether the background is clean or whether the surrounding elements will have any impact on the subject.

Color selection

In addition to just said the composition of the screen to be concise, there is a more important thing is the color you choose. The feeling of color is often the most intuitive and the most casual. It can bring the different mood when you see a graph directly, choose that kind of color as far as possible on the choice of color so pure and fresh or compare the kind of sex apathy. Try to avoid colors that are too bright or look messy.

Low in saturated

Once you have everything in front of you, try to desaturate the image as much as possible in the later stages. Just mentioned, be like general still life kind tonal give priority to with pure and fresh, nature normally, the sense that gives a person is only beautiful, downy, quiet such a sense. Too much saturation tends to be distracting. Although it looks amazing at first glance, it doesn't last long. That's why we often like to tone all the colors and make them very bright when we learn photography in the later stage. Because in this way looks and the original picture big difference, the bigger the difference will appear their own color level is higher, actually is not.

And of course saturation here is a relative concept, not the lower the better. If your photos are already desaturated, you can also add -desaturation. The main thing is to make sure that the color of your image is not garish, and if the saturation is too low you may be graying and losing your natural color.

Highlights

Suppress highlights appropriately throughout the frame. This section is mainly used at a later stage, whether in LR or p8, there are separate options for controlling exposure and shadows. Here's the tool (pictured):

Because it gives you more detail and makes the picture look softer, it depends on the photo. It's not about suppressing highlights, it's about making the highlights really dark, but it's also about looking at slides like this.

As mentioned earlier, it is important to consider the composition of your picture and the matching of colors before shooting. Keep the picture simple and clean, and you won't have to work so hard in the later stages.

The final result

For still life photography, early color selection is very important. This requires you to accumulate more shooting works or see more excellent works. As for me, I am easily influenced by others. Some of my previous works have tended to be simple and clean, and now I'm slowly experimenting with blues and dark tones. It's not about how much your aesthetic has improved, large canvas prints but when you look at the pictures of different photographers, you want to try different styles.