General chapter Ginkgo maple leaves dyed red across the country
With waves of cold snap, most parts of the country have officially entered the late autumn season. The weather turns cold, and at the last moment before winter comes, it is a good time to enjoy autumn. In autumn, the first thing that people think of is definitely red leaves and ginkgo biloba, which is also the easiest autumn theme to shoot in the city. The following small series will introduce you to how to take better autumn photos.
● Basic knowledge: Large aperture has wonderful uses, telephoto lenses are more suitable
First of all, let's clarify the most basic point. Shooting ginkgo biloba, maple leaves, etc., whether it is an urban park or a countryside, belongs to tree forest landscape. In this environment, using a telephoto lens can compress the space, making the picture more compact and the colors denser and brighter. With the large aperture, when the light passes through the leaves of the wood, it will leave a little spot in the lens, enriching the content of the picture and making the picture more beautiful.
Everyone knows the principle of large aperture. Using telephoto can compress space and make photos look more compact
● Pay attention to exposure, red and green handover, pay attention to addition and subtraction exposure
When shooting maple leaves and ginkgo biloba in autumn, pay attention to exposure. Since the light in the woods is usually not too uniform, and large areas of red and green often make the camera metering inaccurate, attention should be paid to addition and subtraction exposure. Since the principle of camera metering is neutral gray principle, that is, the camera will think that all color gray scales are neutral gray, but for a single color, especially green and red, camera metering often has deviations, so attention should be paid to addition and subtraction exposure.
The camera is prone to deviation for simple yellow-green metering, so pay attention to adding and subtracting exposure
● Use filters wellCPLCan improve the effect, but don't use it indiscriminately
Finally, the basic common sense is that using CPL can reduce the reflection of leaves and improve the brightness of colors. However, the use of CPL needs to be treated with caution, and the most important point is not to twist it too much. CPL can reduce stray light, but it cannot be used arbitrarily. Excessive use of CPL will cause the color of the photo to be broken, and CPL must be removed when taking portraits.
CPL can eliminate reflections and make colors more vibrant
· Advanced chapter: More variety of shooting from different angles
Let's take a look at how to shoot better red leaves and ginkgo biloba from different angles. Usually, the red leaves are the reddest days in a year, and the yellow leaf period of ginkgo biloba is only one to two weeks. During this period, basically famous scenic spots will be crowded with people, so how to take different photos requires a better angle to shoot.
● Don't make the picture too empty at regular angles
The most conventional angle is to shoot head-up. When shooting head-up, the most important thing is to grasp the foreground. When shooting with a wide-angle lens, spatial perspective will increase the distance between trees and scenery. Although this will make the scene look wide, it is easier to make the environment look too monotonous, so try to be cautious when using wide-angle lens.
Head-up is the most common shooting angle. At this time, pay attention to the selection of foreground, especially when using a wide-angle lens
● The best way to avoid tourists by shooting upward
For autumn, the sky and trees will form a very beautiful picture, so shooting up is also a good choice. The top of the number is usually rich in color, and shooting up will eliminate the trouble of tourists breaking into the composition, which is also a common composition angle.
Up shooting is a very easy and excellent shooting angle
● The overhead shot angle is beautiful with fallen leaves all over the ground
If you can't find a suitable seat while standing, then squat down and have a look. In autumn, fallen leaves are all over the ground, and many people just stand to shoot, but in fact, the scenery will be more delicate when you squat down. The so-called overhead angle means that when we put our attention under the woods, we will always find something different.
Lean over to shoot, the details are more exciting
· High-level chapter Flowing water and reflection autumn are more compatible
Let's take a look at how to shoot autumn red leaves and ginkgo biloba, which can make your works more exciting and unique. As we all know, autumn is a colorful season. There are countless colors in autumn, so there are many ways to shoot good works. However, I believe that it is difficult for friends in the city to really go to nature and capture wonderful scenery photography works, so the author will introduce how to shoot the best autumn works in the accessible environment.
● Flowing water is more distinctive when paired with autumn stream water
First of all, since everyone is going to shoot trees in autumn, forest parks or mountain forests around the city are naturally good places to go. As the saying goes, where there are mountains, there is water. In autumn, fallen leaves are all over the ground with the gurgling water, which is naturally more atmospheric than shooting streams in other seasons. Of course, slow gate photography is essential at this time, so tripod, ND mirror and shutter cable are naturally essential tools.
The falling leaves are matched with the stream (of course, it may also be the rockery waterfall in the park), and the slow door shooting is even more exciting
● Reflection into a forest is also a good choice besides flowing water and lake surface
When it comes to streams, then we can't help but talk about parks or lakes on the outskirts. Colors are richer than usual in autumn days, so reflections that are usually unattractive will also become diverse in autumn. If it can match the foreground, the picture will have a better sense of extension. If it can't match the foreground, then use the simplest dichotomy composition.
If it is difficult to find the foreground, just use the most conventional symmetrical composition
● Make good use of color to choose a more beautiful background
Since autumn is the season of colorful colors, we should make good use of these colors. Of course, it is possible to shoot directly, or you can use color as the background. These colors may come from colorful trees, or they may be reflections of the sky or water.
To make good use of color, you must first be good at observation
There are many ways to use color, and background blur sometimes helps a lot
● Shooting in the hazy autumn environment is more exciting
Autumn is a foggy season. With the morning fog in autumn (of course, it may also be smog), you can take more hazy and beautiful photos, which is a good shooting subject.
Autumn is a foggy season, and fog can make photos more exciting
● Harmonious and tidy beauty of urban woods
Every city will have more or less green belts, and this neat arrangement of trees is just the place to frame the scene.
The neat shape is the characteristic of urban forest
· How to match foreground and composition in skills
Shooting red leaves in autumn means comparing whose angle is more exciting and whose composition is better. Finally, let's take a look at how to compose and how to match the foreground.
● Wide-angle lenses reduce viewing angles and take advantage of natural landscapes
For natural scenery, people usually choose to shoot with a wide-angle lens, and the space under the wide-angle lens will be opened, so the foreground is even more important. At this time, we can choose to use stones, running water, and even fallen leaves on the ground as the foreground. The foreground can expand the sense of extension of the picture and make the picture more deep.
The foreground can make the picture more spatial
Wide-angle lenses should ensure sufficient picture depth
● The road seats in the mid-focus section are all good things to embellish the picture
When the focal length is slightly longer, such as 35 mm or 50 mm, if you simply shoot, it will still look very empty, but at this time, the stones and flowing water in the natural landscape are not so easy to use. At this time, you can use some slightly larger cultural landscapes as foregrounds, roads, or roadside seats, which are all good choices.
Under the middle focal length, slightly larger props can be used
● Telephoto lens, flat shooting, overhead shooting, road shooting
As for telephoto lenses, unless you shoot portraits or leaf sketches, a good foreground is also very important. The most common telephoto technique is to shoot people in parallel, higher than the road for overhead shooting.
Telephoto pictures are simpler and require more points of interest
