Hand-held Shooting Emergency Skills in Weak Light

Preface

Photography is shooting light. In the face of insufficient light sources such as night scenes, concerts and so on, if the flash can not be used, how should we adapt to the situation, and how to shoot a spectacular image in the weak light environment?

Therefore, this article mainly introduces the hand-held emergency shooting techniques in low-light environments where flash cannot be used, hoping that you can also shoot visible images in low-light environments.

Emergency tips 1. Turn up the sensitivity (ISO) as much as possible.

The use of digital cameras to adjust the sensitivity is much more convenient than the use of film cameras, that is, digital cameras can adjust the sensitivity at any time, on the contrary, only a single film sensitivity. The higher the sensitivity, the higher the sensitivity of the camera to light. The photographer can keep a safe shutter in low light environment to make the image clear. However, when shooting with high sensitivity (ISO1600 or higher), because the image with high ISO will appear obvious noise points, it may need post-processing to reduce noise for the image, but the high ISO performance of the new type of machine is very reliable at present, you can rest assured that shooting.

Nowadays, the ISO of the new type of machine is really high, and I often use ISO1600 to shoot.

Personally, I feel a little more noise in black and white light and a different flavor.

Emergency tip 2: Use your maximum aperture

In addition to increasing the sensitivity, the photographer can also use the maximum aperture to increase the lens light intake (if the lens has f/2.8, f/2.8, f/1.4, f 1.4) so that the camera can shoot at a higher speed shutter to obtain a clear and stable image. Some lenses will reduce the quality at the end of the light, but it is not important because the loss of quality is always weightless. The photos are good, but one thing to note is the depth of field control, because the image with a large aperture has a relatively shallow depth of field. & nbsp; as if I had arranged the characters in a row and distributed them in the same depth of field in this photo, it would not be too large to have the subject in focus, and it would be fascinating to use a large aperture to shoot scattered scenes.

Emergency Tip 3: Use Extreme Slow Shutter Relying on Surrounding Stability

When shooting in low light environment, we can try to depend on the solid objects such as railings, walls, stone pillars to stabilize the body. & nbsp; reduce shutter speed to appropriate speed. In addition, the photographer should focus half by the shutter and hold his breath when pressing the shutter in order to reduce the body's tremor.

The left and right pictures in the picture above also use the ISO3200 aperture 2.8 focal length 200 mm shutter 1 / 6, which are respectively caused by the body vibration during shooting. It is obvious that the right one successfully uses the ultra slow shutter to complete shooting.

Emergency Tip 4: Falling in love with indistinct photographs

If none of the above methods can be photographed, then we have to accept the ghost. Doppling means moving, and moving tends to make a picture smart. Think about moving photography, and add a little hallucination and motion to the picture.

Here are some examples

After reading the article, when you find that the light source around you is not ideal, you should use your mind to see how to use the weak light emergency techniques to continue shooting your work.