Creativeness Everywhere Farewell Invariable Night Photography (2)
Any factors may produce interference
Please pay attention to the light spot and area in the picture. They have unbelievable power. They can attract audienceEUR(TM)s attention. The passerby in red, the shop sign with signal color and the scene are the bright spots in the picture; even they are in the edge of the picture. They can also attract audienceEUR(TM)s attention. Obvious lines, inverted image or the main subject and the flickering sunshine highly possible bother the effect of the picture.
How much the authenticity should the picture have?
If you can discover the interference on time, you can get rid of it from the scene, and clean up the subject. As for which it depends on your wish. Putting the newspaper which is on the bench in a park or pulling out the weeds is not a tough question. But, not everyone is willing to pick up the butt discarded by others or tear the whole branch.
In ordinary situation, the exposure time should more than 1sec when shooting night scenery. And it would be longer in some special situation. If you want to make sure your quality, the tripod is necessary.
When mastering exposure, you can separate the different things under different light, letting the darkest thing exposure first and longer time and letting the lightest thing exposure then and shorter time. This can make up for the phenomenon of uneven exposure.
Because of over strong light or over poor light in some situation and you can not avoid this problem when shooting, you can use late barrier method to balance.
Creative method -- several exposure
From the skill, you can use several exposure when just one exposure can not finish the photo. Beyond that, it is a good way for creating.
When shooting night scenery, the light too weak and contrast of picture element too big, so it is hard to unit them. Due to the nature of electronic sensor, restrictions on technology, especially in the performance of the shadow detail is not ideal. Multiple-exposure is undoubtedly a good way to solve this problem. If you can not grasp the technique of multiple exposures at first, you can also finish it later.
Simply speaking, shoot a photo when the light situation is better before evening coming. The original focal length unchanged, shoot another one in the same parameter when evening come. Synthesizing the two photos, so you can get a night scenery photo of high-quality. Portraits shooting in the night when using this method, you can make more excellent works.
Creative method -- independent white balance
Compared with the traditional camera, digital camera white balance is a new skills. Through the built-in program,you can adjust the whole picture's color. Don't look down upon the white balance function, independent white balance is a creative picture weapon.
Because of the night light, color respect far less than the day comes. If when shooting in automatic white balance adjustment, it will lose scenery's gorgeous color. The custom white balance not only solved the problem, also opens up a broader space for creation. Later, you can use HDR software and photo retouching software to do some modification.
Please pay attention to the light spot and area in the picture. They have unbelievable power. They can attract audienceEUR(TM)s attention. The passerby in red, the shop sign with signal color and the scene are the bright spots in the picture; even they are in the edge of the picture. They can also attract audienceEUR(TM)s attention. Obvious lines, inverted image or the main subject and the flickering sunshine highly possible bother the effect of the picture.
How much the authenticity should the picture have?
If you can discover the interference on time, you can get rid of it from the scene, and clean up the subject. As for which it depends on your wish. Putting the newspaper which is on the bench in a park or pulling out the weeds is not a tough question. But, not everyone is willing to pick up the butt discarded by others or tear the whole branch.
In ordinary situation, the exposure time should more than 1sec when shooting night scenery. And it would be longer in some special situation. If you want to make sure your quality, the tripod is necessary.
When mastering exposure, you can separate the different things under different light, letting the darkest thing exposure first and longer time and letting the lightest thing exposure then and shorter time. This can make up for the phenomenon of uneven exposure.
Because of over strong light or over poor light in some situation and you can not avoid this problem when shooting, you can use late barrier method to balance.
Creative method -- several exposure
From the skill, you can use several exposure when just one exposure can not finish the photo. Beyond that, it is a good way for creating.
When shooting night scenery, the light too weak and contrast of picture element too big, so it is hard to unit them. Due to the nature of electronic sensor, restrictions on technology, especially in the performance of the shadow detail is not ideal. Multiple-exposure is undoubtedly a good way to solve this problem. If you can not grasp the technique of multiple exposures at first, you can also finish it later.
Simply speaking, shoot a photo when the light situation is better before evening coming. The original focal length unchanged, shoot another one in the same parameter when evening come. Synthesizing the two photos, so you can get a night scenery photo of high-quality. Portraits shooting in the night when using this method, you can make more excellent works.
Creative method -- independent white balance
Compared with the traditional camera, digital camera white balance is a new skills. Through the built-in program,you can adjust the whole picture's color. Don't look down upon the white balance function, independent white balance is a creative picture weapon.
Because of the night light, color respect far less than the day comes. If when shooting in automatic white balance adjustment, it will lose scenery's gorgeous color. The custom white balance not only solved the problem, also opens up a broader space for creation. Later, you can use HDR software and photo retouching software to do some modification.
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