Take a nice still life photo

First, I would like to introduce myself briefly. I am called buy big fish. I am a post-90s photography enthusiast. Usually mainly take some pictures of daily life, canvas prints basically are some small things around, mainly as a record of the identity of it. I kept the interesting pictures in the form 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, because when we shoot a still life, it is mainly a stationary thing. It's not as much trouble as a portrait. The photographer has to control not only his own camera Angle, canvas prints australia but also the pose, clothing and makeup of your subject.

In the later stage, still life photography only involves the toning, while portrait photography needs to involve the aspects of skin grinding and liquefaction in addition to the toning. So, floating frames australia if you're starting out with a still life, practice mixing and then ignore the objective factors of the model and focus your attention on the color of the picture you're taking.

Still life to practice their composition and color mixing ability, first from easy to difficult, slowly the introduction, which is very helpful for you to learn photography.

Fresh photo features

First, let's take a look at what needs to be paid attention to in still life photography. I will send some of my personal works to have a look. And just for the sake of observation I've broken up the main colors of the picture into a few color blocks, and you can get a sense of what they're like.

Its composition

Picture composition mainly refers to the elements and combinations in a photo. To be frank, it is similar to your composition. A good photo is usually a simple combination, a clear theme, so that others can see what you want to express, there is not too much clutter or irrelevant elements in it. As I have posted before, the pictures are very simple, maybe the main body is just one object, there is nothing superfluous to disturb your sight.

Color selection

In addition to the picture composition just said to be simple, there is a more important is your choice of color. The feeling of color is often the most intuitive and the most casual. It will bring you to look at the picture directly when the mood is not the same, so try to choose that color on the choice of color is fresher or the kind of comparison sex is cold. Try to avoid colors that are too bright or messy to look at.

Low in saturated

Once you've got everything in front of you, try to de-saturate the image in the post. Just mentioned, be like general still life kind tonal usually with pure and fresh, natural give priority to, the feeling that gives a person is only beautiful, downy, quiet such a feeling. Too much saturation tends to stand out. Although it looks amazing at first sight, it will be hard to bear after a long time. This is why we often like to adjust all the colors in the beginning of the later period of learning photography and make the colors especially gorgeous. Because this looks and the original picture of the difference is relatively big, the bigger the difference will appear their own toning level is higher, in fact, is not.

Highlights

The whole picture should be appropriate to suppress the highlights. This section is mainly used in the late stage, both in LR and p8, there are separate options to control exposure and shadow. Here's the tool (pictured): most of the time, the highlight area of the photo is lowered. Because this can find out the picture more bright detail, but also can let the picture look a bit softer, specific operation or according to the specific situation of the photo. It doesn't mean that you can suppress the highlights or you can pull the highlights very dark, but you can also look at some flaps like this.

The crest is mostly on the far right, but there are not many peaks at either end. This shows that his highlights are not a pure white state, but rather like the milky white, milky white, ivory yellow such a state. This white is not pure white, it is just close to white. Therefore, although his picture is very bright, the brightness will not be the kind of light that has a very high contrast and is very dazzling. The overall picture gives people a very soft and quiet and warm feeling.

The final result

That's all for this post. For still life photography, early color selection is very important. This requires you to accumulate more pictures or see more excellent works. As a person, I am easily influenced by others. Some of my previous work has been towards this simplicity and cleanliness, and now I'm slowly experimenting with the blues and dark tones. It's not how much your aesthetic has improved, acrylic glass prints but when you see more pictures from different photographers, you want to try different styles.