2013年2月1日星期五

Five points of clearness and sharpness(2)


3. Find the best aperture of the lens
Moderate "shrinkage aperture" is a method to enhance the sharpness of the photo, find the "best aperture"of the lens in your hands, generally speaking, it is probably between F5.6 and F11, you can get the best sharpness of the image in the range of best aperture. Another purpose of reducing the aperture is to deepen the depth of field to make most scenery in the scene fall on the range of depth of field clearly, it will feel clear and sharp in the vision wholy. What’s more, remember that don't reduce the aperture too small, otherwise it will only make the quality of scene worse.
When the aperture is reduced, because the amount of light is decreased, the shutter speed become slower, so you need to pay attention to safety shutter, get a balance between the safe shutter and high ISO noisy point, otherwise use the tripod and shutter release to assist photographing.
4. Use single focus to focus accurately
The image without accurate focus will absolutely have no sharpness, so accurate focus is very important. Suggest using a "single focus"for photographing, allow the users to control the position of the focus themselves. Let the camera decide position of focus itself, because the subject is usually the most outstanding thing in the scene, the composition is nearly in the central position, but if it is in the situation of a shallow depth of field, or a more special composition, the quality of every photo can be ensured by using single focus, it won't leave regretbecause of the camera's wrong judgement.
5. Make good use of the control setting of the camera
Thanks to the development of digital technology, the post-production can solve a lot of photography things. In addition to use the image post-production software to improve the sharpness of the image, making good use of the control setting of the camera is an easy and simple method. Now the camera can let players customize different photography setting, you can default the contrast, sharpness, saturation, etc.of the image, these are very helpful.


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1. Provide enough stability for the camera
No matter in what photographing environment, first step is to hold the camera stably to photograph clear photos, if you think that stability is poor, you can try to make the camera close to body and clamp arms, if the situation is available, it is a good way to use viewfinder. Or lean the body on the near solid stable objects, it may be rail, pillar, etc.to let the photography achieve better stability. You can also try to stop breathing at the moment of pressing the shutter, it also help to reduce the shaking of the camera.
Certainly the most foolproof method is to use the tripod and shutter release for photographing, but when usee the tripod you should also want to notice whether the surrounding environment is stable, and whether the tripod is strong enough or not.
2, Achieve balance between the high ISO and safety shutter
If it is in the situation of insufficient light, you must pay attention to safety shutter, safety shutter refers to the "1/lens focal length", for example, if you use the 100 mm focal length for photographing, then the shutter speed in 1/100 s or faster is the so-called safety shutter.
If there is no auxiliary of the tripod and the aperture has turned to maximum, then you can try to increase ISO to improve the shutter speed. But you have to be careful that if the interference of noisy points follows the high ISO, too many noisy points can affect the quality of the scene and make the imaging loose. As for you ask what is the limit of high ISO, this is determined by the camera’s level decision, some ISO 800 is the limit, some ISO 3200 quality of scene is still get up easily.


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2013年1月31日星期四

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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2013年1月30日星期三

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!
4Make 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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2013年1月29日星期二

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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2013年1月27日星期日

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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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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