I usually see people say that taking photos is so beautiful, your camera must be very expensive\ your mobile phone must be very good.
Actually, no, as long as you have good enough photography skills and photography skills, even if it's just an ordinary mobile phone, you can take amazing photos in your circle of friends.
Today, we will teach you how to take photos that amaze your friends with only an ordinary mobile phone!
01
Low angle + foreground composition
Composition is the cornerstone of photography, and excellent photography must be based on composition. Most of us look at our surroundings from similar angles in our lives, and rarely let go of our posture. But there's another world there. Changing the angle can make the boring scenery fresh and vivid
In layman's terms, this shooting method is to lower the lens and shoot the subject of the photo at a lower angle.
This way of guiding the line of sight with foreground composition can greatly increase the impact of the picture, and it is progressively full and substantial from close-up to long-range, just like a solid undercurrent fluctuating heartbeat, which is both magnificent and graceful.
This feature allows us to take photos from unusual and exaggerated viewing angles, especially for landscape photos that include a lot of foreground.
For example, Austin Mann's landscape photo puts the lens close to the water surface, and captures the wonderful moment of fishermen casting nets and fishing by writing the foreground of the splashing water.
On weekdays, the water splashing when we see fishermen casting their nets is actually unremarkable, but when we shoot closely with the lens, it will look very surging.
At the same time, the splashing water (foreground) echoes the rolling mountains (background) in the photo, which increases the depth of the photo, makes the photo look rich in layers, combines movement and static, and greatly increases the visual impact.
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Composition using guide lines
What is a guide line?
In the photo, there will be one or more lines that unconsciously attract your attention. Our eyes keep moving with the direction of the lines. These lines guide our eyes through the photo, and these lines are called "guiding lines".
This is one of the most effective ways to attract viewers. In actual shooting, we can often find some regular lines, which can be used to connect the main body and background elements of the picture in series. They can be used to guide the observer through the lens, attract attention to the main body, and produce a sense of depth and perspective.
This Guang Zhouta makes use of the convergence line on the circle to highlight the main position of the central building.
Sometimes you can also creatively use the perspective distortion and edge distortion brought by ultra-wide-angle lenses to shoot more impactful pictures.
This one makes a good use of this combination. The subject building in the above picture itself is a curved line, and under the ultra-wide-angle perspective and edge deformation, the tension brought by the lines is enhanced, making the picture look more shocking.
Guide lines can be rivers, traffic, light projections, promenades, streets, a string of lanterns, and carriages. As long as there are directional and continuous points or lines that play the role of guiding vision, we can call them guiding lines.
It is not only a straight line, diagonal line, arc, but also a plane. Everyone understands that surfaces are composed of lines.
03
Shooting the sky with vertical frame angle
Use vertical frame shooting to make the photo contain more blue sky, and the visual effect of the photo will be even more shocking.
更有趣的拍法是寻找带有引导线的前景与背景戏剧性的云相结合，如下图则是用弧形的桥作为前景把观众视线引到了画面中间的树木，同时超广角的透视使背景看起来比实际更加远，让图片看起来更有层次感。
▍利用好人像模式
Comes with the mobile phone cameraPortrait ModeCan take photos with clear subjects and blurred backgrounds.
When taking a photo in the portrait mode of the mobile phone camera, the camera will automatically blur the background of the photo to achieve the effect of highlighting the subject (model).
Therefore, when taking photos in [Portrait Mode], you need to pay more attention to the following points-
1. BackgroundTry to choose a simple, bright and well-lit shooting background.
2. DistanceThe lens should not be too far away from the subject being photographed, usually half a meter to two meters is enough. But it's best to keep a certain distance between the subject being photographed and the background-generally speaking, the farther the distance between the subject and the background, the more obvious the blur effect is.
For example, in this portrait photo, he chose a bright and colorful night street as the background. The characters hold a certain distance from the background, which is convenient for mobile phones to intelligently identify the background and blur the background.
Moreover, the face faces the left light source to avoid the face being too dark. The character in the picture chooses to wear a hat, which can not only avoid the wrong blur of the mobile phone when dealing with the edge of the hair, but also add a unique shape and different emotional atmosphere to the character.
As photographer Arnold Newman said: "We're not taking pictures with our cameras, we're taking pictures with our hearts and minds。”
Whether it's a mobile phone or a camera. Equipment is just equipment, but human wisdom is infinite. Many times, excellent photography skills can take good photos more easily than excellent equipment!
