How to take good photos of ancient buildings? A must-have for travel photography!
Now is the period of the epidemic, so it is not recommended for everyone to move around. Now you can prepare for photography in advance for traveling in the future. How can take good-looking photos when encountering ancient buildings? This tutorial in the photography self-study class helps you prepare 6 photography skills.
1. Use up.
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Light is indispensable in photography. When you want to take good photos of ancient buildings, you can also take good photos of their night scenes like Figure 2. The method is, You need a tripod so that you can be stable. Hold your device still, and secondly slow down the shutter. Because when the shutter is slowed down, if the camera shakes slightly, will make the parts of the photo that should be clear unclear. Secondly, you need a light reduction filter, so that after you slow down the shutter speed and use long exposure, can make the photo not overexposed, and the water surface can be photographed like Figure 2. In addition, when photographing this kind of tower-shaped ancient building with lights, it should be horizontally and vertically and not tilted.
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2. Use color.
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Winter is coming soon. Use contrast and to enhance your photos of ancient buildings. You can take them in the early morning after snow in winter. The rising sun in the sky can decorate your pictures with warmer colors . Some ancient buildings, like Figure 3, are yellow themselves, which can form a beautiful contrast between warm and cold with the surrounding snow scene. Finally, pay attention to the composition. If an ancient building is particularly prominent in the picture, it is best to place it near the left or right side of the photo, one-third of the dividing line. The location of this dividing line is close to the golden ratio. can make your photos look more beautiful.
3. Use angle.
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Even during daily travel, you can still take beautiful photos of ancient buildings. Let’s look at the error example in Figure 4 first. In Figure 4 of , although it is also horizontal and vertical, there is a diagonal line in the foreground that runs horizontally in the photo. However, because there are too many lines in the picture, the photo looks messy. So when we encounter this kind of scene, we can use a perspective like Figure 5, stand under a triangular eaves, let the eaves extending to the left and right sides, form a guide line, and frame it into a frame, and frame the ancient building to be photographed in the frame. When shooting, you need to squat down appropriately, and sometimes you even need to put the photography equipment on the ground to take pictures of all the ancient buildings in the frame.
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4. Use lines.
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If you want to take some simple photos, you can like Figure 6. shoots the edges where several ancient buildings are connected. The edges appear as lines in the photos. However, lines can make the picture look more simple.
5. Use your mobile phone to retouch pictures.
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Many friends are curious, in a tourist attraction, there are so many people, how can we take photos with so few people like Figure 7? The method is very simple. You are the first to arrive at the scenic spot, and is the first to rush to the location where you want to shoot, and you will be able to take pictures with few people. Secondly, you need to try many times. If you want to get a picture like Figure 8, also needs to use a tripod, plus light filter , and slow down the shutter speed. In addition, you can use the special effects blur in the mobile phone to modify the blur effect later.
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6. Use local details.
takes photos of ancient buildings. Don’t forget to take some details, like Figure 9. only takes photos of the corners of the eaves of ancient buildings, but the prerequisite is that you need a telephoto lens and a relatively large aperture to take such a beautiful blur effect.
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