Take still life photography

For the novice photographer, canvas prints the easiest way to further improve the technique of photography is to hold the camera to the small objects you see in daily life. For shooting portraits or landscapes, there may be many factors beyond our grasp, but for still life photography, various changing factors are relatively easy for us to control. For example, in a shooting scene, if the light is too dim, just move the subject to a place where there is light, or use a flash to supplement the light.

This still life photography is simple and simple, but it is not easy to make still life out of the ordinary. The following author to share with you can be good still life skills, canvas prints online australia hoping to help you have a deeper understanding of still life photography and understanding.

Choice of topic

The choice of subject is entirely up to you. But don't assume that you have to photograph fruits or flowers like everyone else. For instance headstone and now market popular color stone are common adornment, they are relatively compact, floating frames australia and style type is more, begin from them, also be right choice

For the shooting of these small objects, take a close-up photograph, so the equipment used should be considered from the perspective of close-up photography. So for the choice of lens, the author suggests to choose medium, long focus lens or macro lens. When medium and long lenses are used, the distance between the lens and the subject can be slightly larger, so it is more convenient to distribute light. But if you want more detail in your shots, you should use a macro lens.

Use background correctly

Choosing a good background plays an important role in creating a successful work. For still life shots, it's best to choose a background that is simple and beautiful, so that it doesn't have a big impact on what you're photographing. The wall of one side quietly elegant plain color is quite good choice.

If you want to make the color look rich and full, look for a background that matches the color of the actual object or a background with a large contrast. The harmonious collocation of the background wall and foreground with the sense of vicissitudes makes the picture look fuller.

For the silver jewelry of shooting rings, you can choose a bright color background with greater color contrast to highlight the texture of the silver jewelry and make the picture look less monotonous. For some small objects, the background may not be used, so we can use a substrate instead, such as black velvet would be a good choice, because it can absorb light, making the substrate look pure black.

The composition is

For still life shooting, it is not limited to the number of subject elements. So the composition is particularly important. Before shooting, you should fully consider how to make your work to achieve the best combination of various elements, which can not only make the picture look full and leave white space properly, but also grasp the visual focus of the audience, so that the picture does not look scattered. The following author to introduce still life photography commonly used composition skills.

1. Three-part composition

Three-part composition is the most basic and safest method of composition in photography. The upper, lower, left and right sides of the picture are divided into three equal parts, and their four equal dividing lines intersect into four points. These four points are called the center of interest, which is the best place to arrange the work.

2. Scatter composition

For shooting non-single objects, scatter shot is the most common way of composition in still life photography. Scatter point composition is to cover the whole picture with objects, not deliberately to highlight an object, is completely free and loose composition structure. This way of composition can give full play to the photographer's creative space, but to make the picture not too messy, you have to work hard.

3. Diagonal composition

Diagonal composition is a visual impact of a composition, the strongest dynamic. If chosen properly, the result will be very good.

4. Triangle composition

Triangular composition usually consists of three themes of the same nature forming a triangular whole of the picture. Because the three sides of a triangle are made up of straight lines in different directions, and different lines form different forms of the triangle, different trends and changes, will give people different feelings.

5. Contrast your composition

Contrast is a form of composition. The polarization of contrast is widely used in photography, such as color contrast, texture contrast, size contrast, dark contrast and so on. However, this kind of composition is also the most difficult to handle, and most works that can successfully use contrast composition are extraordinary. Have certain photographic friends may as well try more.

Use of light

The main performance of still life photography is to highlight the texture of objects, to show it, in addition to the use of some props, the key lies in the use of light. Still life photography often USES direct light, soft light, and side light and top light.

1. Use of soft light

In still life shooting, soft light is often used as a light method. It is not limited to one type of object, as long as you want your image to show a hazy soft mood, you can use this way of light.

2. Use of direct light

Direct light is suitable for the performance of some hard objects, will give the viewer a clear, strong feeling.

3. The side light

As the front light is not conducive to the three-dimensional performance of objects, so we generally used as auxiliary light. Side light is better three-dimensional performance, also the most appropriate performance of the texture of the object. Therefore, the most common still life photography is the side light.

4. Light

The top light is closest to the direction of the sun's rays, so this way of lighting mimics the effect of the sunlight and gives the image a sense of highlight. Many works use this kind of light as the main light.

Many photography enthusiasts are under the impression that the more complicated the light, the better, and they like to shine all the light on the subject, who is actually wrong, because it does not reflect the sense of light hierarchy, but leave a feeling of chaos.

Finally, the author reminds us that in the shooting, not only the light distribution should be reasonable, but also the order of the use of light is very important. First of all, we should focus on the position of the main light, and then use the auxiliary light to adjust the contrast formed by the effect of the main light on the picture, highlight the level of the theme, and control the projection.

Tone and emotion

A good photographic work not only records the truth, but also enables the viewer to feel the emotion it wants to express. Tonal expression is the protagonist of mood. Good photography can often convey emotions to the viewer.

Sometimes there is a strong contrast in a tone, just like a soft music in the insertion of a sweet treble, especially refreshing, still life photography also often use this technique to show the subject.

The full use of color is a preferred method of photography. The color of expression element is emphasized, make it adds color to the picture, build artistic conception. Good photos must let the viewer have imagination space, for example, the high heels in the picture above let the author think of a woman, it is placed at will posture as if a sexy creature languidly sitting on his beloved rose throne, waiting for her dream lover to undress. The whole picture highlights the sense of cold and elegant nobility is self-evident.

Warm color is also a common color in still life photography, it is gentle and gentle, will give people a sense of wanting to close, is often used to shoot with a nostalgic style of the image. Above, for example, a copper pocket watch, a leather notepad, small iron objects, and a drawing that is curled up at will, all in warm tones, give a glimpse of the study of the American rich in the 1920s.

These are my still life photography tips to share with you. Once you've mastered the art of shooting a single object, try shooting several objects at once, preferably with different shapes, colors, and textures, and see if you can get a good result. So what are you waiting for? Set up your camera, set up your background, adjust the right light source, find a unique and fascinating object, large canvas print and start shooting!