Photograph Mystery in The Coffee Shop

The setting and lens selection

 You must first set photometry for the SLR In the indoor shooting portraits. Generally speaking, the light is downy in the coffee where all brightness is a relatively balanced .The overall exposure will not cause too much light, thus you can use spot metering and guarantee the natural skin. Dim indoor will guarantee quality, so it is necessary to use the largest aperture shooting. Sacrifice some sharpness for quality which can prevent noise produced by high sensitivity from influencing quality . But big aperture can make up for the deficiency of the light, as long as you can take a picture in the bright place ,you don't need to be hard on yourself .The window is undoubtedly the best choice. Bright light can reduce the ISO to enhance the quality. But now there are different style of cafe such as Korean, Japanese, ancient and so on. The light is enough in some Korean coffee rooms , so you don't have to worry about the quality of photo , and metering choice is very flexible.

 In order to fit into more environment, you can use portions below 50mm section in the lens choice, among which 35 mm lens is undoubtedly the best. If the photographer only has telephoto lens at hand and want to make the whole body for a model , you can take  a few steps back and lower body for shooting. If you meet back ,snapshot is also the good choice.

Shooting style and emotional expression

Except that the background, clothing, makeup can reflect the Different styles, the most simple way is to use color. The charm of Color photo lies in different colors, which can express different mood and atmosphere. Colors such as red, orange, yellow, green, blue purple, black and white ash, it will produce more unexpected changes by adjusting the saturation and contrast. Different emotional expression can be attained by the former film and later adjustment.

Little emotion is generally photo, using large aperture shallow depth of field simplified background to highlight the expression of character. Different focal length have their advantages, not blindly fitting into the surrounding environment. The telescopic focal length to clap out like a picture, it is easy to foil a sense of tranquility .Multicolored color prospects can get fuzzy effect not only by making use of glass reflection, also by using large aperture . Set some take tone near objects in the lens, it also can be built up naturally .

Picture story of feeling and extension

If it is only photographed in the coffee shop ,it is a bit drab. In the first shooting, you can discover its ductility. Many small indoor decoration, little thing, a little bit a pendulum clap, form with shadow effect of sketch with a work, can add many sense of atmosphere.

In addition, you also can shot a few pieces of photos outside space of cafe, the road, in the roadside store as a story that has climax, and also has a beginning and ending ,the picture tells a whole story.

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How to photograph the feelings of plants

1.    A bright warmth: shiny background spot

When you are in warm space full of sunshine, but only photograph cold photo, it is really a pity! How can bring the sunshine into our works? The blurred background spot can help us.

Using the light of the background, warm spot can make the whole scene full of warmth and it will be contagious.

2. Chiaroscuro, highlighting the subject

Not every scene will have full warmth in the scene. This does not mean that we have no way to capture beauty, as long as we observe carefully, we will find that there is still contrast of light and dark between the photographic subject and the background. There will be other unique photography method: contrast the darker side to the lighter side, you will be amazed at the scene you can see.

3. The contrast of color, the eternal theme

Under environment with weak contrast of light and dark, we can also highlight photographic subject through the contrast of color. The contrast of color makes the scene look lively. Bright colors can always attract the attention of someone else suddenly!

4．Make the subject blend into the whole scene, build integrity if the photo

In the introduction of a lot of photographic experience, photographers always do everything possible to let the subject and background separated so as to highlight the subject. However, we will feel tired of this undiversified photographic techniques occasionally, is there any other better photographing method? You might as well try to make the subject blend into the whole scene while maintain the gorgeous focal, it may be the blend of color or may be the composition ...

Summary

The methods of photographing plants are definitely more than the above several methods, raise the camera bravely to explore and discover new photographing techniques! The plants are small but you can make another world!

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Photographing skills on transport

Photographing experience

How to photograph the beautiful scenery along the way on transport is the topic to be discussed in this article.

Photographing on transport has many advantages, such as the position of the camera is much higher than the common ground, dynamic can be photographed in high-speed mobile, you can photograph a series in a short period of time, photographing density is high and so on, but it also brings another problem- the difficulty.

Frequently problems

1, the platform is unstable and easy for shaking

2, the time for composition is not enough

3, focusing is difficult

However, these problems can be tackled.

Photographing skills

First let’s look at the first problem, the unstable platform. This problem can be easily solved. The photographing in the car is most bumpy, if we photograph with header, generally the shutter should be between 250 to over 400, the image is acceptable basically, the clarity may not be compared with the photos photographed by standing on earth, but it also enough to express the content of things that we see.

The second problem is the time for composition is not enough. If you think the scenery on both sides of the road is too fast, you might as well try to photograph in the front or at the back of the vehicle, this is the biggest improving method.

Snapping needs that the line of sight to sees the scenery in advance, for example, if a person or a storefront is appearing soon, set parameters and do not be worried at this time, you should begin to compose when the object appear in the viewfinder, generally the speed of the bus can compose 2 ~ 3 times quickly, that is, you can photograph 2 to 3 photos, but you must ensure the perfect composition, or you prefer to give up.

The feeling of photographing in the stern: If you take the boat with very low height, you can even make the camera close to the water for photographing, of course, this is a little dangerous, you will say farewell to the camera if the boat shakes. . .

The third problem is how to do if the focusing is difficult. When you photograph in the bus, I usually use manual focus, the aperture priority is set to A file, try to reduce the aperture to make shutter value between 250 to over 400, if the shutter is not enough, use ISO to compensate. In normal circumstances you only need to focus for one time, under the same circumstance of the road, you can photograph directly, this is the fastest program which is quick and safe than any AF.
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Eight simple skills of commodity photographic teaching (2)

Backlight shows the transparent texture of glass

The backlighting photographing is a photography method that places the subjects in the middle of a camera and light, it is the light that is difficult to master. Whether it is portrait photography or landscape photography, using backlighting to show the subjects is one of the common photographing methods. In still life photography, using this method is conducive to show the sense of permeability of glassware and characteristic shape of the glass.

Use shadow to perform heavy feeling of exhibitions

Because of the need to protect the exhibitions, the light in the museum is very dark, because the light is stronger, it has more serious damage to the exhibitions. When we use digital camera to photograph exhibitions, the museums usually is not allowed to use the flash, and the flash will damage the effect of the scene when photographing. Therefore we should use the light in the scene, use a large aperture to photograph to make the museum's real lighting effects presented in the scene, you can show the heavy feeling exhibitions combined with shadows.

Use reflection to enhance three-dimensional

Successful still life photography not only needs accurate exposure of the scene, but also needs to highlight the texture of the object as well as three-dimensional to give real feeling to people. When photographing exhibitions, because the indoor light is very dim, using the camera's built-in flash for direct flash will cause unnatural effect of the scene due to the reflected light. At this time, metering is particularly important, the strong contrast between light and dark in front of the camera and the changes of lighting can highlight the visual effects of exhibitions, you should select spot metering mode for subjects’ metering. To make the color of the scene correctly, you should adjust the white balance appropriately, you also need to use a larger aperture and slow shutter to show the texture of the objects, and use the effects of light and shadow to perform the three-dimensional of objects.

Use soft light to remake pictures

In addition to the photographing objects directly, in some special cases, we can also remake the existing photos. When remaking, you should ensure the light is sufficient and soft. Keep the photographing objects flat on the table to let them has uniform light when remaking, the photographers must pay attention to avoid the shock when holding the cameras with your hands. The remaking lens should choose the lens with no aberration but strong resolution lens in order to seek the best resolution.

When remaking under the sun, the sun light is sufficient, you can fast focusing and photograph, you can also add a reflective panel, but prevent the generation of shadow. After you complete photographing, you can make post-production adjustment with software to make the tone color of the scene fuller.

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Eight simple skills of commodity photographic teaching (1)

Build a simple studio of still life

When photographing still life, you can build a studio at home. You should determine the size of the studio first to build simplified studio, use a white paper or white fabric with good light transmission to form the shape shown at the top left. Next, choose the solid color background or paperboard according to the characteristics of the subject, then use a desk lamp or flashlight as your subject lighting, while you can also make the white cardboard as reflector.

Use soft to perform the objects with high reflecting rate

Soft means that the light that irradiates on the subject does not produce significant shadow. It belongs to the diffuse reflectance properties of light, the direction of the light source is not obvious. In general, the larger the irradiated light is, the more uniform the light will be, the scene photographed by soft lighting has calm tone. For the objects with higher reflecting rate, such as glass, metal, water surface and so on, we often use soft light for photographing, it is good for avoiding reflective light destroying the effect of scene, it also highlights the characteristics of the subjects.

Use hard light to highlight the three-dimensional of still life

The objects photographed with hard light have significant shadow, the subjects have obvious sensitive surface and backlight surface, the scene has great contrast of brightness. If we photograph rough objects through the use of such light and shadow effect, it can truly manifest the texture, while highlight the three-dimensional of subjects.

Clever lighting to highlight the metal texture

Metal surfaces is easy to reflect light and reflect the objects in the surrounding environment on the metal surface, so photographing metal is generally operated in a dark environment, use enveloping or semi enveloping lighting can achieve the desired results. Photographing metal objects focuses on highlighting the texture and three-dimensional of the metal, you should choose a single background according to the metal color in order to highlight the main subject.

The follow picture is metal jewelry photographed under indoor light. Because the metal is easy to reflect the light, so photographers use soft light metal for irradiation to highlight the texture of the metal.

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Use Photoshop example to describe and create scenery photos with beautiful artistic conception

1. Analysis of comparative chart with the original photo

The analysis of original photo: the color of the entire scene is too dim, the high light levels of the sun disappear, the two reefs form two visual center, the following parts can be cut off.

Modified scheme: In order to highlight the center of the scene and emphasize the warm feeling of the sun at sunrise.

2. Cropping scheme and adjustment of color gradation

The cutting position is at the dark part of the second wave below the reef.

Objective: In order to allow the absolute visual center, the reef in the one third of scene. Such cutting not only makes the composition more stable, but also leaves certain visual space above the horizon.

After cutting, you can use the stamp tool to modify unnecessary spray to avoid the trivial points destroying the concise scene

Adjust color gradation and redefine the black field.

Principle: The higher peak in the histogram shows the pixel information is abundant, push the small triangle to the place with more peaks, you can redefine the black field to avoid the scene being too gray and too dull.

 The principle of the white field is the same, if there are not too many pixels in the black and white two paragraphs of the image histogram, you can redefine the black and white points and observe the changes of the tone of the scene.

3. Curve color positioning and optional colors

Adjust the curve, upward the red channel curve first, so the red in the adjusted scene will be richer, then use RGB to darken the scene.

Use optional color to adjust the tendency of red, the original red makes the scene seems cold, this step is to create the warm feeling of sunshine.

4 Use gradient tool to add sun

We create a new blank layer and use the gradient tool to drag from top to bottom as the illustrated straight line, pull out a round, manufacture divergent sunshine, and change the Layer overlay mode to overlay, this step makes the level of the scene richer.

Note: The setting of the color of the gradient tool is white-transparent, the setting of divergent type is gradient disappearance of the round.

Analysis of comparative chart with the original photo

The analysis of original photo: the composition of the scene is more rigorous, but the color is too boring, the colors of the beach and the sea are not distinguished.

Modified scheme: It is mainly the processing of color, let the sea water and beach sand has a color contrast and enhance opticality.

2 Whole brightening and partial adjustment

There is a big difference between sub-channels adjustment of curves and direct adjustment of curves, intuitive, that is, the whole sense of color is more translucent and more inclined.

This step is for overall brightening, but it is recommended respective sub-channel adjustment, the colors are more delicate.

Again use sub-channels adjustment of curves, this step is to adjust the blue of the sea water, in order to avoid other objects affected by color, you need to use a brush to cover the part that you do not want to be affected.

3. Partial adjustment of curves of the beach

Similarly, this step is to adjust golden color of the beach, but the hull is too large, so we should cover it. The reason why we do not cover the part of seawater is that we want to make the color of the sea present the same kind of warmth with the whole scene.

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How to photograph a dreamlike princess

Millions of girls around the world are infatuated with the beautiful princess of Disney.

From Sleeping Beauty Jasmine Princess to Bella Princess, these animation beauty roles that have brown hair, full lips and perfect figures become the idols of the popular Disney films.

Now, their beauty reappear in real life, it should be attributed to the American photographer and Disney character artist Ryan Astamendi .

The real Princess: in the photography work "The Beauty and the Beast", Disney animation artist Ryan Astamendi brings Bella to the reality.

Perfect figure: in movie "Aladdin” of 1992, Princess Jasmine has bushy hair and unimaginable slender waist, but Mr.Astamendi brings Princess Jasmine in the cartoon to reality throughoutstanding artistic creation.

 The photographer, who now lives in California, produces an incredible live version of the Disney Princess with amazing degree of similarity .

People who have been the United States and the Disneyland Paris theme park may have seen the live version of Princess of flesh and blood, but this is the first time that the photographer reappear such delicate lifelike princess.

 Mr. Astamendi has been working in the Walt Disney Company as role of a character artist for 18 years, he says he was inspired by early Disney cartoon.

Hanging down the long hair! The imitation effect of curly brown hair of the Princess with long hair is quite lifelike.

The same white: The real princess’s rosebud lip, peach and creamy skin reveal Snow White's beauty completely.

He says he grew up in Burbank, California of the United States, he was very lucky to get a few Disney artists’ teaching, then he went to CalArts for learning where he majored in character animation.

He managed to become a Disney character artist by taking this opportunity, he assisted in the development of the Disney role first and gradually loved Disney Princess.

He launched what he called the photography project of "Princess series" to photograph his favorite live versions of princesses one by one.

According to him, the key to the success of his work is excellent clothing and models.

Mr Astamendi says that for the Princess with long hair, he prepares 15 -foot-long hair for Skyler Vallo and sews imitation clothes that commensurate with this star’s lavender dress.

"The princess is the most popular photos in my work." Mr. Astamendi says: " I'm really happy in it, but the things are too complicated ... they may be beyond your imagination ."

In 1995, the movie "Pocahontas" is Disney's first live adaptation of movie, she is American Indians Pocahontas.

Princess Aurora put on the replica of the pretty pink dress worn in "Sleeping Beauty".

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How to analyse excellent photography works

Documentary

An ordinary photo that snapped in an instant is far more valuable than the colorful photo with long arrangement. So you must have a camera capable of photographing anywhere and anytime.

 Dynamic

 We are always stressing use the images to capture the moment, but if the photo just seize a moment of people, things, scenery, things, it will seem thin. The dynamic expression of a good photo is that it effectively extend the moment, it is more like a movie, which show the moment as the beautiful process. It is recommended to not let your model maintain a posture when photographing portraits, you can try a variety of actions. In post-production, you can also use the photo crop and photo resize of photo editor to make a secondary composition, which will make the photo more perfect.

Light and shadow

We all know that photography is an art of light and shadow, a perfect light source is able to make your photos look with rich color, depth, and beautify the object you photograph. Strong sunlight is just one of many light sources, for photographing characters, the cloudy and gloomy weather conditions are the best, because in such weather, the light is very soft and it is also very good to facial performance. While the portrait photographed in sunny is very sharp and will cast a shadow.

Perspective

      Someone has said that an incisive sentence: the ability of the photographer is to transfer the ordinary things of everyday life into enduring visual image.

      So the photography object is not the determinant whether the photo is wonderful or not, we are very familiar with the things under a lot of photographers’ lens. The difference is that they use a unique perspective to inject the soul into ordinary things, we might as we   abandon the traditional visual concepts, change a perspective to interpret the imaging world.

Think about the photographing purpose like a professional photographer

1. Because of beauty

   This is a very common answer. The problem is that beautiful scenery is not equal to the pretty photos, the reason is very simple, the contrast of the environment may be too strong, or the beautiful sunset is blocked by some trees, our brain will be wonderful to modify, adjust, change focus, but the camera can not do these even with the HDR, it does not know how to filter the debris on the photo.

2, Because of the feeling

    This is probably a good reason for photographing. Whatever the emotion that we feel, if a situational can affect you, then we can try to photograph, and then convey through the computer scene to make the audience of the photos receive.

3, Because of stories

    This is the photo that many photographers want to get. When the story, life and action of a world are compressed in one photo, when a photo can tell a rich story, we must take it down.

4, Because of guiding

     A picture can be worth a thousand words. It does not matter trichotomy and the golden section, or the exposure should be absolutely correct and things like that, if a photo can make people learn one thing, then photographing it.

5, Because I want to remember this moment

    It may be a sunset on the beach, or a lonely cup of coffee in a small shop. You may also use photo editor to add some photo texts or clip arts  to express your emotion, but the audience does not understand. Because others do not share your memories and feelings, in addition to yourself, others do not appreciate it, if you do not share, you should keep it, the value of this work will be higher.