Are there any tips for using light during the shoot?

Taking photos against the light can add halos to our hair, clothes and other details, and soft light photos give people a hazy feeling. Professional photographers have good lighting requirements, light brightness adjustment, and item placement are also very important, because some things are reflective.

With the automatic white balance setting on the camera, the color temperature of the shooting location can be automatically adjusted, and the method of spot metering can be used to take pictures.

Shooting in the light means that the camera's shooting angle and the direction of the light are the same, and the light-facing side of the subject will be illuminated when shooting in the light condition. Because it is a direct light, the light-receiving surface of the subject is basically evenly lit and does not produce shadows.

You can lower your back to the light** for a dreamy effect and a three-dimensional portrait with metering.

Backlit shooting is to turn the sensitivity of the phone to the lowest and place the subject in a light-dense place, and you will get a great **.

If you light it overhead, the result will be even better.

When shooting, you should know that the wider the light source, the softer the light, on the contrary, the narrower the light source, the harder the light, and the closer the light source, the softer the light.

We can shoot along the light, and if we shoot in this way, the characters will be very white, and the overall effect will be very good.

Flat lighting arrangement: Place the main light in front of the subject, the same direction as the shot, adjust the angle of the whole light, so that the real face of the portrait shines on the face, this light provides a very intuitive lighting effect for the portrait, which can reduce the wrinkles and blemishes on the face.

You can choose to dress up in some mountains and Changyin roofs, or you can also choose the sunset, and then prepare a light limb board by capturing the way, so that you can see the light and open the portrait model hall style, and the final effect is also very good.

The only way to create a dreamy base mountain burial effect is to take pictures against the light. Backlit photography can create a gorgeous background and create a dreamy effect, as well as metering to take pictures. The sun shines from the side to fight the ants, and it can also be on the faces of the characters. Presents a kind of beauty.

These techniques are, using light to take pictures, using the shadows of light chains and fingers to take studio photos, using the angle of light to take pictures, designing light, and using strong light to take pictures. Late talk.

For example, when shooting portraits, you can use lighting to outline the face of the character, outline the personality, can better distinguish whether you are fine or not, and you can search to make the whole person more recognizable.

1.The background is bright and the foreground is dark

The use of light in photography is not only to capture the details of the figure, but more importantly, to find the dividing point between light and dark in the picture, even if the subject is not explosive, the picture is still beautiful.

2.The foreground is bright, and the background is dark

So a picture with chiaroscuro is more eye-catching. A black background is the best way to stand out, especially when the ambient light is low, and white clothing can make the character stand out from the dark background.

When shooting indoors, try to turn off lights of different colors, and a single light source will appear that the person's skin tone is cleaner.

3.Arrange the model in the dark

On a cloudy day, it is difficult to shoot a strong contrast between light and dark**, but you can try to arrange the model in the dark, with the help of the building, and measure the light to make a beautiful silhouette.

In the case of light blocking, if everyone is standing in a bright place to shoot, then some people will be in the shadow, and at this time, it is not possible to make all of them accurate, so it is best to let them stand in the dark and shoot silhouettes.

4.Arrange the model to be shouted in the bright place

On the contrary, when the light is very low, we should also consider arranging the characters in the brightest part of the picture, using the occlusion of the building and the frame composition to highlight the chiaroscuro of the picture.

Generally speaking, indoor light is not as bright as outside, so adjusting the ISO value is one way to solve the relatively weak indoor light when a photographer enters from outside to indoors. Let's take a look at the detailed tutorial below!

Increasing the ISO value increases the noise on the closed surface, just as increasing the sensitivity of the film when shooting with film causes the grain to become thicker. The ISO value is set depending on the intensity of the light, not the nature of the light. Photographers often choose to use high ISO values to give the image a sense of lightness.

Here are some common scenarios where you might need to improve your ISO.

Photographing indoor sports. If you're shooting in an indoor stadium, you can adjust the ISO value to 1600, which will make the shutter speed fast enough to have the effect of condensation. Try to use flash at the same time so that the background also stands out from the frame and doesn't make the viewer feel like the characters are floating in a black background.

Aim the ** value at the gymnasium that lacks a neutral or gray substance, then manually ** for the subject, while setting the flash to TTL flash test mode.

Shoot indoor events. When shooting birthday parties or other indoor events, increase the ISO value if you don't want to use flash.

Special effect. Sometimes, the photographer will deliberately increase the ISO value to increase the image'noise, giving ** some kind of special effect and feel.

Normally, when the photographer shoots the scene in this shot, he will use a flash to shine it directly, which completely removes the orange color from the frame. I set the ISO value to 800 when I shot this shot, aiming it at the candlelit face**.

This uses an 85mm lens with a shutter speed of 1 30s and an aperture of f2

The power of light is the essence of photography, and photography is what we do and love. Those ** are born with light, and without light, they do not exist. As photographers, it's our job to work with light, to study it carefully, to "depict" it through the viewfinder.

Look at the light and see how it travels through the earth, how it decorates and recreates the world. The moment after the sun has just set is often the most dramatic, peaceful, and pleasing light for photographers. In Costa Rica, my two children were walking on the beach of the Osa Peninsula at sunset.

This **20mm 35mm lens is used, ** combined with shutter speed 1 60s and aperture value.

It's always desirable to shoot on a sunny day, but the weather is changeable, and dramatic weather can add color to the photograph and convey a mood. This article starts with shooting in different weather, and understands the shooting skills in different weather on the basis of feasting your eyes.

1. Sunny days record the beauty of life

A sunny day is a good weather for landscape photography, with plenty of light, bright colors, and easy to produce good works, and it is also the most flexible shooting weather. Shooting at different times** will include different colors and depth of emotion, taking into account not only the time factor, but also the environment around the subject, because the environment can affect or reflect sunlight, which can change the color of the subject. Don't forget to adjust the camera's white balance according to the effect you want to achieve, and by changing the color temperature, the color of the entire image will also change.

Photo by Laura Delamater EOS 7D Speed: 1 250s Aperture ISO: 100 Focal length: 100mm

The sunlight passing through the leaves has a green tinge

When shooting on a sunny day, the use of light is especially important because the direction of the light is more obvious. When shooting in a backlit or semi-backlit situation, the contrast of light and shadow creates a three-dimensional sense of the subject and makes it more vivid. It should be noted that on sunny days, due to the action of water vapor, the air will not be transparent enough and the shooting picture will be gray, so it is necessary to choose the time of shooting carefully.

When the transparency is insufficient, the shooting angle can be shifted from the large scene to the subject matter at close range, and the local expression technique is the best way to fight the imitation liquid.

EOS 5D Mark II Speed: 1 160s Aperture ISO: 100 Focal Length: 100mm

The ability to depict detail and color under high-quality red-circled lenses is very strong.

EOS 5D Mark II Speed: 1 15S Aperture ISO: 100 Focal Length: 92mm

On a sunny day with plenty of light, you can shoot some big scenes with unrestrained emotions.

EOS 5D Mark II Speed: 1 200s Aperture ISO: 640 Focal Length: 700mm

Shooting dynamic things in good weather can be advantageous.

EOS 5D Mark II Speed: 1 400s Aperture ISO: 200 Focal Length: 105mm

Artistic conception of shooting in a backlit environment.

Simple and practical mantra for using light!

The easy-to-remember mantra of using light will help you get rid of the trouble of using light!

Basic controls: 1. Plus: The background is bright and the subject is dark, use flash to compensate.

2. Minus: The subject is bright and the background is dark, find something to block the light.

3. Multiply: The reflector should be used skillfully and placed properly.

4. Except: The beam shines on the face, and the plastic pocket comes in handy.

Specific control: 1. Find the light first and then select the scene, and the face beautification is the most important.

2. At the intersection of sunlight and shadow, you can see a good environment in the boundary light.

3. The reflection area should be commonly used, and the light sense should be beautiful and the shadow should be distinct.

4. The light should not only care about the face, but the background of the hair should be clear.

5. Cluttered light is not available, and the light on the face should be clean.

6. Although the lighting location is important, the lighting machine needs to be controlled.

7. In the best light, turn around in situ to choose the beautiful scenery.

8. You didn't realize the error, and the direction of the light was not selected.

In bright light, such as when the lens and the light are in the opposite direction, this is called backlit shooting. In order to make the backlit surface appear brighter. You have to use supplemental lighting.

There are several types of fill light:

1. The flash fills the light, but the flash always doesn't look so soft, so you have to add a soft cover in front of the flash;

2. Reflector fill light, this is the most common way to fill light, convenient and fast, commonly used with silver and golden reflective surface, very cheap, dozens of dollars to buy one, but you need another person to help play the board.

3. The light of the external shooting lamp is to use the luminous bulb with power supply to fill the light, which is generally a bit wasteful under strong light, but it can still be used.

4. It is to use spot metering to measure the face, but at this time, the background may be very bright, which will be called a high-profile image, and to some extent, it is still quite feeling.

Shooting outside is different from indoors, you can't move the light, but you can control the subject

I don't know why the landlord has to shoot in strong light, and he knows that the effect is not good

All I can say is that when you are shooting on location, you should try to avoid conditions that are not good for you, because you can't change the sun, so you have to avoid it.

You can add a lens hood in front of the lens. It seems that you can also adjust the aperture size to control the amount of light coming in.