Every time I see a picture I want to take, I can't help but pick up my mobile phone and press the shutter "madly".
In this way, it seems that I have taken a lot of photos, but I have seriously flipped through my photo album before! Hair! Now! Not a single picture is interesting. At first glance, it looks ordinary... is it always like this for you?
In addition, when appreciating other people's works, we often sigh that others have taken so well that the photos can catch people's eyes at a glance. In fact, taking good photos requires mastering some shooting skills.
Here, I summarized it for you3 Tips for Taking Photos with Your PhoneIf you learn it, taking photos in the future will definitely make people shine!
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Waiting for a coincidence
Daily photography, especially in street photography, sometimes when you pick up your mobile phone and conceive the framing of the picture, facing the current scene, you suddenly feel that the picture is missing some "soul element"...
In this case, you need to wait for an opportunity and a "coincidence", so that the captured pictures will often be more surprising.
Generally, before shooting, the scene needs to be"Predictive" compositionAnd then wait for that important visual element to appear.
Here, let's take a look at the following photo. The photographer points the lens of his mobile phone at the wall illuminated by light, and thenPull down exposure，Emphasis on light and shadow, then waited for pedestrians to come in, and finally pressed the shutter to photograph this scene.
It is an ability of the photographer to have a certain prediction of what is about to happen, and to be able to seize the opportunity to freeze the coincidental moment of the picture.
Because of this "coincidence", photos taken with mobile phones haveDramatic, the picture is more visual, and the story-telling of the photos becomes stronger.
Therefore, in some specific occasions, there is no need to "press the shutter" in a hurry to take pictures, but you can observe and think first, so that the chance of getting the desired picture will be greater.
Like this riverside photo, under the pink-orange sky, two big trees stand next to each other by the riverside. If you simply take a picture of this scene, it will be an ordinary landscape photo. Cleverly, however, the photographer patiently waited for the appearance of "coincidence" and captured the picture of two pedestrians passing by, one in tandem, and the scene was small, which was very interesting.
For another example, in the photo below, the photographer captured two fishing boats sailing on the river, one large and one small distributed in the frameDiagonal position, the picture is rich in spatial levels.
© Lu Gongfu
Sometimes, to add to the story atmosphere of the photo, we can also make the photoBlack and white processing, remove color interference and deepen the theme of the photo.
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Capturing the motion
We all know,Photos are still images。 Generally, daily subjects are mainly still things, but occasionally capturing some dynamic things can give the original still photos a sense of visual dynamics.
Like horses galloping, waves crashing against rocks... these subjects in various dynamic situations show a dynamic aesthetic feeling of the picture with their current movement posture.
When the main object of shooting is a character, if you want the picture to be more dynamic, you must combine the movement posture of the character and turn onContinuous shooting mode of mobile phoneCapture dynamic pictures.
For example, when taking photos at the seaside, when you look around, the rolling waves have their own dynamic picture. At this time,Lower the shooting angleTaking the person who is somersaulting by the beach as the main body of the picture, the spread limbs of the characters, and the collision of water splash, the photo is filled with a sense of movement.
Or when there are many main characters in the picture, various actions of different people in the same scene enrich the overall content of the picture and make this dynamic picture more interesting,The sense of scene substitution is also relatively strong。
© Bi Yongan
In addition to people and objects in motion seen by the naked eye, invisible objects such as wind,The state of air flow, when driving the lighter things around you to move,The movement of wind is transformed into the movement of things, the pictures taken are also dynamic, creating a wonderful visual impression for people.
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Looking for abstraction
We are all used to shooting things with concrete images, and what we see is what we get, so that the photos taken are less fresh and imaginable.
Therefore, when you want your photo to be visually attractive, tryCreative thinking that breaks the conventions, change your perspective on things, and take pictures of things you see everyday to give a different feeling, that is,Abstract figurative things。
By finding special subjects, narrowing the distance between the mobile phone lens and the subject, or changing various shooting angles, using the mobile phone'sTelephoto、Macro distance、RealityAnd other functions, can realize abstract shooting.
Generally, some liquids such as water are easy to form because the liquid surface and the ground and glass surfaceIrregular lines, when shooting at close range with a mobile phone, it can record this abstract picture, bringing a unique visual sense.
When you are on a prairie with blue sky and white clouds floating, if you just shoot in normal camera mode, the whole picture will be relatively dull, but when you skillfully use your mobile phoneLive ModeTo capture the fluttering clouds and vast grasslands, you can obtain blurred pictures, and then achieve abstract visual effects.
In addition, shooting some local details, such as the geometric lines of buildings, the local colors of things, etc., can also get interesting abstract pictures ~
· The above photos are all submissions of the 6 th MPC Mobile Photography Competition ·
Only by integrating your own thinking into photography creation, instead of blindly pressing the shutter button and "shooting wildly", can you take truly visually attractive photos.
I hope that every one of you can freeze to an extraordinary moment in your ordinary life and be a recorder of your own life.
