"It's also street photography. Why do others always take better shots than themselves?"I believe this question has always been your doubt.
In fact, a good street photo requires the double cooperation of the early stage and the later stage, which complement each other.
It is not difficult to find that the street photos taken by some people have their own style. Even ordinary street scene elements can produce a movie-like texture, andLasse ErkolaThat's the kind of photographer.
So, why can others make a "cinematic feeling"? How can we create street photos with cinematic texture with the help of early and late stages?
◢Selection of pre-shooting elements
Specific street scene elements to create a movie with a sense of story
Lasse Erkola is a game magazine art director from Finland, who often travels from Finland to Japan for work.
In his spare time, he likes to shuttle through the urban streets of Japan, indulging in capturing different urban street scenes with the lens.
He once said:"I've always been drawn to places that look like movie sets."
Therefore, in his works, we can see some specific street scene elements, which are especially suitable for creating cinematic pictures, which also reveal the unique characteristics of Japanese street culture.
● Station, carriage
As the kingdom of rail transit, Japan has railways, subways, buses and other transportation trunk lines, which are intertwined like a network in this country.
Stations and carriages naturally becomeLasse ErkolaThe framing elements of the lens, and these scenes also breed all kinds of street stories.
Like the photo below taken at a small train station in Nagoya, the dim environment and smooth lighting create a soothing soft cinematic visual feel.
Because of the unique environmental atmosphere of stations and carriages, coupled with people's behavior, it is a good choice for taking street photos of movie texture.
● People in the street scene (pedestrians, people in shops)
Capturing character elements is the soul of street photography content.
The appearance of characters not only enriches the content of the picture, but also strengthens the sense of story of the picture. Because of the narrowness of Japanese streets, the distance between houses and the size of shops are affected by it, which forms a unique street cultural landscape.
The street scene at night is more like scenes of movie plots.The characters in the picture have their own behavior and posture.
Like pedestrians walking in dark streets: or riding, walking, standing, walking with an umbrella...
Those human stories that happened in shops have also becomeLasse ErkolaThe shooting concerns of.
In particular, he is good atFinding visual conflict points, in the dark surrounding environment, through the bright window, through the frame composition, capture the details of the picture, and record all kinds of shop life under the lens.
Each window is a small story, in which the characters concentrate on what they are doing, which is closely connected with the space. Among them, lights with different color temperatures produce different evening color pictures, which seem lonely but full of human warmth.
● City lights
In addition to capturing story-like pictures, city lights are also an important element of street scene shooting.
Lasse ErkolaOften point the camera at street lamps, shop lights, sign light boxes and other scenes on the streets at night.
The dark night environment under the curtain of the sky becomes soft and romantic because of the existence of colorful or warm lights.
In the street scene after the rain, there are various different situations in the spaceRefracted lightWithReflected lightIt also enriches the light source of the scene, which makes the details of the night scene more delicate and rich in texture, and the colors become more rich.
In addition, in foggy days, the urban space seems to be shrouded in a huge fog tent, which is hazy. If it is a dream, the color temperature of the light in the scene will also increase, and the warm atmosphere will intensify, making it easier to shoot a movie-like visual sense.
The above city lights provide atmosphere and emotional tone for the formation of cinematic pictures, and are a major framing element for taking cinematic texture photos.
◢Post-photo processing
Enhance the cinematic atmosphere of photos, which is intriguing
After the framing and shooting in the early stage are completed, it is inseparable from the post-processing of the photos to make your street photos stylized and more cinematic.
Just in the right later stage, it further improves the photo display form, strengthens the cinematic atmosphere of the photos, and makes the emotional conveyance of the picture more in place.
Throughout Lasse Erkola's works, most of them are4:3Or3:4In order to obtain remarkable film texture effect, he has the following two characteristics in post-processing:
◆ Add a white border to a photo
He processed the white border of the photos, which not only enhanced the visual artistic sense of photo typesetting, but also focused on people's attention, and at the same time, it also set off and compensated the content of the photos.
◆ In the later period of the photo, it tends to be cyan and warm
In terms of post-color matching,Lasse ErkolaThe works have their own style.
In tone adjustment,Bias to dark tonesThere is a large area of black and shadow in the picture.
As for tone adjustment, most photos areDark blue hue, the saturation is moderate or low, and it has a gray and high-end feeling.
In addition, in some lighting scenes, his tone processing is mostlyThe dark parts tend to be cool (cyan)，Highlights are warmer (mainly orange-yellow)。 It looks like a combination of blue-orange tones, but it is more attractive than blue-orange.
Lasse ErkolaBy means ofGreen and warmThe color tone enhances the cinematic atmosphere of the photos, strengthens the narrative nature of the picture content, and retains the daily life of the Japanese people and the cultural background of the country in the lens in the form of images.
A good street photography photo is not a random photo. With every picture output, the viewer can perceive the emotions and thoughts that the photographer has poured into the photo.
It is not easy to shoot a country's street scene humanities in its own unique style. Only true love and careful understanding can turn this love into a warm and touching image.
