Use shadow create wonderful effects

As the United Kingdom photographer Frank · Hershey Holt said: "all of life is simply the light and shadow, when you see another light from the window. You want to think about his shadow, there is not a separate existence. "Now that photography is" light painting ", thus no light, the shadows will also paint an important in the process. Although the creation of man in photo

As the United Kingdom photographer Frank · Hershey Holt said: "all of life is simply the light and shadow, when you see another light from the window.

You want to think about his shadow, there is not a separate existence. ”

Since the photo is "light painting", thus no light, the shadows will also paint an important in the process.

Although photography creation people tend to ignore the role of the shadow, and even intentionally avoid the shadow, but it is still a lot of photography in a vivid elements, photographer little thinking, creative use of shadows; resulting in improved photographic works.

Learn how to use the shadows of the first step is to try to increase the awareness of that shadow until it becomes a habit, and learn to distinguish between may become part of the interesting works of shadow and that will distract the audience attention, thus undermining a good photo of shadows.

Photography is usually our eyes often note that the main point of interest, and ignored the existence of the shadow.

In addition, people feel the light intensity increases than any film can feel a greater extent, therefore, when exposed to normal, the photograph of the shadow is generally lower than the actual shadow appear more black, but also occur you didn't notice. So, learn to advance awareness to be taken of the shadow on an object and its effect, is very important.

The shadow of such a nature that the nature of the light.

Cloudy light scattering from a diffuse light, when the formation of the solar energy produced very soft shadows, it is not obvious and sometimes difficult to sense, therefore, often making the photo subject missing shadow given by three-dimensional sense and sense of space.

In contrast, direct light it produces hard and, on the edge of the apparent mingying, it and be taken on the subject of light sharp contrast.

In this case, you can often get beautiful styling or realistic. Experienced photographers know the importance of the shadow. They usually use a light source to obtain a light and shadow to create the works as a beautiful, vivid sense of depth and realism. However, the photographer also warned the beginner, to carefully use this technique, otherwise will result in depression of orbital and ugly nose projection.

In General, the early morning and evening shadows up, if at such times, often can be exaggerated and distortion effects.

Shooting for a higher viewpoint, the effect will be even better. The more sunlight, the more dark shadow, its effect is more strongly. Black shadow due to the lack of an easy distraction of details, which can produce the strongest and most vibrant images.

It is necessary to pay attention to select those simple, with distinct and neat shape of the body as a shooting mingying, that would be the most vivid, clear and interesting picture.

You can also select those outlines clear object's shadow as the composition. If possible, you can press your intention to display them in order to obtain the desired screen. However, note that the shadow on the background sometimes very easily dispersed audience on the subject of attention. To avoid shadows become illegible dark block because it will be distracting, and does not provide any useful content. Shooting a little perturbed at the brain, for light source carefully selecting camera angles and is the location of the camera body, you can use the shadow on the background to add new subjects.