Simple devices can also take creative photos.
"Photography is poor for three generations, and SLRs ruin your life." This sentence is often used by people who have taken scrap films as an excuse, as if they have not burned tens of thousands of dollars and can't take good photos. Today, the author of this article will tell you how to take unique photos with a mobile phone or a lightweight device worth thousands of yuan.
"Little Good Luck" is popular everywhere in recent years.
A camera that can be carried with you and can be taken out of a certain pocket at any time - even those phones that clamor for the quality of SLR but never can be used - can meet most daily shooting needs. This is the "little happiness" of professional photographers and many photography enthusiasts.
If time is forward to the birth of iPhone 4 or the popularity of Instagram, people would not realize that photography did not always require carrying a brick-sized camera to cover half of the face so serious. Now even if you just move your fingers, you can complete a series of professional shootings.
On National Day in 2012, a mountain girl was carrying a newly purchased DSLR camera and was excited to hike in Xinjiang. It is said that she would travel 30 kilometers a day. After she came back, she complained to me, saying that the color and texture of the SLR were indeed unpicky, but after walking for five kilometers on her back, she had a strong urge to abandon it on the road. Later, she didn't want to grab the camera and take pictures.
If you don’t use photography as a means of making a living, or if you have very strict requirements on your photography works (especially referring to image quality rather than composition, light and shadow application, etc.), then you should indeed bring a "acceptable" camera, use the limited knowledge provided by this article to re-arm your mind, and then enter the outdoors to examine a different world.
Light
We all know that photography is the art of using light. Lightweight photography equipment such as mobile phone cameras, sports cameras or card cameras is indeed relatively weak in terms of light sensing ability compared to professional big guys such as SLRs, but as long as you choose the right time to take pictures, you can still capture beautiful pictures.
Taichung Gaomei Wetland.
Airs Rock in Australia.
The two pictures above are taken near dusk in the afternoon. Due to the decrease in the sun's angle, the light is not as strong as in the daytime, which can make the picture appear softer; in addition, the light radiates from the sunset is like covering the world with a layer of gold yarn, which is particularly pleasing to the color.
is also conducive to taking photos. For example, the picture below - two new and old dormitory buildings standing opposite each other.
These are two new and old dormitory buildings near my home. They are not good-looking, but because of the color and brightness of the morning sky combined with the translucent awning, the whole picture looks very light and energetic.
angle
Of course, we cannot be surrounded by good light anytime, anywhere. Generally speaking, we can find some interesting perspectives more easily.
Small sports cameras such as Gopro, Sony ActionCam or Little Ant are products that I underestimate. They are undoubtedly "selfie tools" for people who love sports and outdoors.
In order to include a wider picture, these cameras are equipped with a fisheye (or close to the fisheye effect), and the picture deformation is extremely exaggerated. For example, the picture below shows me placing the camera in the front seat when I was training in dragon boats to shoot my own effect.
front fish eye effect will make the movement appear more intense.
This deformation and exaggeration should be an effect that most photography should avoid, but unexpectedly brings a sense of power to the picture. And because it is too convenient to use, even if you take a blind shot like the picture below, you don’t have to worry about who will be excluded from the picture.
In a narrow space, the sense of space expansion created by fish eyes.
Sometimes, in a narrow space, you can also use the fish-eye lens of the sports camera.
Use the fisheye effect to shoot the sky outside from the machine window.
If you are really too lazy to configure a sports camera, you might as well try to flip the picture in your hand directly and look at the world through reflection. You will also have a novel feeling.
Retro reflection.
Conception
People often say that photography should look at the head behind the lens, which shows the importance of thinking to photography.
I used my mobile phone camera to take two pictures: one is a comparison between naturally growing plants and abandoned man-made objects, and the other is a comparison between mountain express parcels and children. Through this contrast, the viewability of the picture is increased.
Collision between birth and waste.
Comparison between large and small.
is also a picture taken with my mobile phone. From the perspective of my water surface, this cross-river railway bridge seemed to have been built for a long distance, and suddenly stopped work. In conjunction with the cloudy weather, it exudes a sense of desolation.
The chic angle is easier than the hard-working dimming.
Sometimes, we must make full use of the characteristics of the equipment in our hands to create fun effects. For example, this photo takes advantage of the visual characteristics of the sports camera's fish-eye lenses, which are close to the big and far away, and creates a selfie of "Godzilla" forcing the Sands Hotel.
Sands Hotel in Singapore is like a little baby.
save money
There are many seemingly cheap or simple photography equipment, and they have "black technology" that makes professional cameras look at each other with admiration. It costs very little money, but it can take pictures full of style. The panoramic mode in
mobile phone has significant advantages in showing relatively static scenes such as buildings and natural environments. The effect presented is not necessarily worse than that of professional cameras with wide-angle lenses.
Free Square under the wide-angle lens of the mobile phone.
The picture below is a "asteroid" effect that my family and I took a photo on the grassland of a palace in Thailand. We formed a circle and placed the VR camera in the middle to shoot, and finally made it. At first glance, this effect looks very impressive. In fact, this VR camera is priced at less than 2,000 yuan.
Take photos with your friends, and you no longer have to queue up. The photo on the cover of
is actually a photo completed with Sony ActionCam sports synthesis mode. There is a set made of dozens of bicycles on the spot. I turned on the sports synthesis mode and jumped from one side to the other, turning myself into a part of the set.
can also be very exciting if you play alone.
The diving shell of a professional camera is usually more expensive than the camera itself. The picture below is a photo I took when I put ActionCam into the standard diving shell and snorkeling on Paya Island, Malaysia. The camera's own underwater photography color mode can accurately restore the colors of marine organisms underwater, saving a lot of post-processing efforts.
Realistic PS-free version Nemo.
Author Profile: Qiu Xiaolang, Southern Weekend Photo Editor, Photographer, Aerial Photography Expert, Senior Traveler, Good at Shooting Humanities and Landscapes.
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