Five Quick Tips for Improving Your Photography Skills
byDaniel McCarthy/
如果您曾经从同事,朋友或家人的社交媒体上看到一张照片,然后想:“他们如何获得如此完美的照片?”答案可能并不像您想象的那样压倒性。
During a session at Apple Leisure Group Vacation’s Ascend Conference earlier this month, Will Byington, a freelance photographer based out of Chicago, shared some easy tips for travel advisors who are looking to improve their photo skills when on FAM trips or site inspections.
拜顿(Byington)在芝加哥小熊队(Chicago Cubs)和六人(Sixthman)工作,已经花费了15年的时间担任摄影师,在包括Rolling Stone,《纽约时报》,《今日美国》等出版物中都有出色的演出。
While everyone will have their own preferences when it comes to photography, Byington’s goal is to shoot photos that “catch people’s attention,” including photos that “pop” with bright colors and big objects.
这只是Byington推荐的一些内容:
1. The best camera is the one you have with you
在过去的二十年中,智能手机的出现已经使每个人的口袋里的摄像头都放在了。Byington的建议是使用它。iPhone和Google像素为消费者提供可以与很多专业装备相媲美的相机。
If you are interested in improving your photography further, that is when you can consider digging into your pocket to purchase tools.
“There are a few investments you can make under $500 that really improve your photos,” Byington said, including a GoPro, Insta360, or a DSLR, but if your goal is to take photos to show your clients, the smartphone camera is generally a great place to start.
2.拍摄镜头
尤其是在使用智能手机相机时,重要的是要意识到您几乎有无限机会拍照的机会。您的存储空间最终将用完,但是直到那时,要射击。
“It’s not like you have a roll of film. You literally can take thousands of photos and keep going. Don’t miss the moment, just shoot away.”
Take photos from all angles, go low, go high, go wide, get close, Byington said. Use your settings. It’s easy to delete photos that didn’t turn out the way you had hoped. It’s less easy to add photos you didn’t take.
保证不要错过镜头的最佳方法是服用比您想象的要多。
3.利用内置设置
For those using an iPhone, using live mode is an easy way to ensure you’re getting the right shot as it grabs a moving photo, spread over a few seconds, that you can edit after the face in order to get the best frame.
Another this to make the task easier is playing with exposure settings, which can be done on an iPhone by touching the screen to the point you want to focus on and then dragging your finger either up or down to adjust the light. Especially when the lighting isn’t the best, playing with multiple shots with different exposures will get you more options.
同样在iPhone上,摄影师应确保他们使用肖像模式,这是“从字面上看,这是您口袋里的照片工作室”。肖像模式在您的照片中深度深度,取决于您的肖像模式设置,使您可以将背景对象模糊为酌处权,因此镜头专注于主题。
4.使用应用程序
After you’ve gotten your shots from different angles, with different lighting, it’s time to start editing. Almost every smartphone’s built-in photo program will let you edit exposure, crop the photo, and perform other basic tasks, but there are some apps that will take it one step further.
他说:“您可以在智能手机上轻松编辑。”“我喜欢添加很多饱和度,一些清晰度,但是当您使用应用程序时,这都是内置的。”
Google Snapseed is one that’s free that lets you do that’s tasks along with a “healing” setting that can take small objects out of the photo.
Lightleap是另一个确实有应用内购买的免费应用程序,可以从多雨或沉闷的一天中节省您的照片 - 它可以抬起黑暗的天空,以使您的手指简单地触摸您。
其他需要考虑的是Typorama,Prisma,Scrl和Facetune。但是,要警惕,编辑越多,您的照片被编辑得越清晰,这可能是某些人所需的效果,而不是对其他人的效果
5. Backup your photos…and relax
You aren’t always going to get the right shot. Weather, light, bystanders hanging out in the background, and other factors will impact your photo beyond your control. It’s important to realize that.
拜顿说:“请记住,每张图片都不是完美的,创建内容令人筋疲力尽。”他说:“您不会总是正确地做到这一点……只要做到这一点,每碰到这些照片。”
但是,跟踪照片是可以控制的。
Emailing the ones you like to yourself is an easy way to keep track, as is adding them to a Dropbox or Google Photos account or an external hard drive. Depending on what ecosystem you belong to (Apple, Google, etc.) there are a number of opportunities to store your images in a cloud storage system.
Take advantage of those and use keywords to make sorting through your images easier.