Hello, I am Yuechuang.
In fact, sometimes the photographed image is not clear, not necessarily caused by focus. Some are caused by the wrong posture of your holding the phone. Next, let's talk about how to hold the phone.
1. Hold the machine
Why do we need to talk about the holding position?
This is like a soldier who has to learn how to hold a gun before going to the battlefield. Otherwise, how do soldiers fight? So, the truth is the same: this is a set of norms, so that there will be no big mistakes on the battlefield. "Standing with a gun, squatting with a gun, crawling with a gun."
1.1 Wrong posture demonstration
1.1.1 The first error
When holding the camera, some people may unconsciously want to squat down a bit, then his "her" knees are a bit bent, and even the heels are lifted up. Then it will cause your body to sway back and forth, or even side to side. Therefore, there must be no stable posture.
Moreover, besides that, you may spend extra thoughts on maintaining the balance of your body, so it is difficult to be very meditative when composing the picture, so you can proceed very carefully.
Therefore, bending your knees is absolutely not allowed!
1.1.2 The second error
When many people at Tiananmen Square in Beijing want to squat lower to take pictures, they directly use horse stances. I don't know if they are influenced by martial arts novels and TV dramas.
Horse stance is used for muscle training, a basic training in martial arts, why use stance to train muscles? Because this action is very difficult. If you take this pose to take a photo, it will only cause your whole body to be trembling. If you have strong muscles, you can confidently say: I can take a stable step, but I still recommend you not to use it. This method. Because you can be more stable if you change your posture a little bit, and we never despise that our camera is stable enough.
You may think this posture is funny, but it is indeed very common in life. I still have to praise it. Many people want to take pictures like this. In fact, they found that standing up and taking pictures may not be beautiful, so they want to lower the trial. Ah, we will talk about this in the following picture.
But this posture is not advisable!
1.1.3 The third error
Then the third kind of wrong knowledge is to be handsome, one hand is in the pocket of the pants, and the other hand is raised high to shoot. The shutter of our camera, when opening and closing, the camera will have A slight vibration is even worse if it is a SLR camera.
One way: its vibration or greater, because there is a small mirror inside it bouncing up and down;
Secondly, the SLR camera is very heavy, so if you hold it in one hand, you may also be at risk of shaking.
1.1.4 The fourth error
The next wrong action is to lean back. Some people may find that their composition is not perfect when taking pictures. They also want to take a wider shot and take a larger shot, so that there are more objects on the left and right. I took a few shots in, so I wanted to go back, but I don't know why. After they backed up, they just leaned back, not their feet.
In fact, you only need to step back a few steps, and then take a normal shot, all the problems will be solved.
Leaning back is the most trembling of the photo poses I have seen, and it is also the most common one. Whether you are standing or squatting, your torso is not allowed to lean back. Leaning forward is fine, because It’s easy to keep your balance, but it’s not okay to lean back.
1.1.5 The fifth error
There is the last posture-kneeling on both knees. This posture does not look so beautiful at first.
At the same time, it’s still very difficult to maintain balance. If you don’t believe it, just kneel and try it. You will feel that your body is always moving forward and backward. Easy, so when you kneel for a long time, the pain will cause your swing to become larger.
Above the body, probably the same.
However, we have to emphasize on the small details. Then, with the above knowledge, I hope that everyone has left a very deep impression and don't make the same mistake again.
Next, let's see how our beauty instructor Andy demonstrates the correct holding posture for us.
1.2 Demonstration of correct holding posture
1.2.1 Standing
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First, let's look at how to station , station is a luxurious.
The most stable way to stand is to stand with your feet open and shoulder width, and the long distance between your feet and shoulder width is the same. This posture is also a very standard posture for our guns. So please pay attention to this point, the other two arms are clamped very tightly, and she tightly pressed the upper arms to the sides of her chest. Instead of opening your arms to flicker and flicker like small wings, you don't take pictures like that. These two upper arms must clamp your own chest.
1.2.2 Lunge
Then if you want to lower your body height, please take pictures with lunges instead of horses. Put your most powerful leg in front to support your body.
The other leg is a little farther away and put it behind to keep your balance. At this time, you can lean forward slightly.
You can also stretch your hands forward a little bit without causing the imbalance of the center of gravity, so please try the lunge too. While I am talking about it, please pose in front of the computer. Swing it once, and you will remember it, otherwise you may not remember it after a long time.
1.2.3 Squatting
If you think that this shooting angle is not enough, and you want to be lower, we need to adopt a squatting position.
However, it can't be the kind with feet together-squatting like going to the toilet.
We have to have a special squat position, which is like this.
We use the left-footed approach, whether you are left-handed or right-handed, you have to do this. The left foot is in front, then the knee, face, elbow, and the left hand is still supporting the bottom of the lens. Then, in this way: the camera, elbows and knees, plus our feet, the three form a line-just like a special bracket in our camera accessory called a monopod , It allows our camera to avoid vibration up and down as much as possible.
Of course, I have also seen people on the Internet say: It is recommended to kneel on the left knee, right knee up, and then the whole reverse. You can try it. You can try the two positions. I still think the left knee is the most comfortable and stable last time.
Moreover, when dragging this camera, it’s easier to look at the camera’s viewfinder. If you think there are other methods that are more stable and better than mine, it doesn’t matter. This is not a definite standard. This is ours. In the process of long-term practice, some suggestions for everyone.
1.2.4 Get down
If you get down, one of the most common mistakes is to push your ass .
So you can’t push your butt. If you want to lie down, just get down. Don’t be embarrassed if all the beautiful women are like this.
Going out with the photographer, this body is always dirty. Teacher Ye, "the teacher I study" took this one-on-one student to Qinghai Lake to take a photo some time ago. I was dressed well when I went, and muddy when I came back.
So we joked at that time: If you look at a photographer, you don't have to work hard, and you don't need to work hard to make it look good. You don't need to look at the camera, just look at his body is not clean.
The body is clean, it must be a photo with no good composition. It is the kind of standing there and taking a photo every day. So get down when it's time to get down.
So far, this physical knowledge-from high to low has basically been solved. Now let’s take a look again. There is a situation when the light is relatively weak, it is often easy to shake and blur, we may also use the method of support to take pictures.
1.2.5 Support
Find any stable object around you, such as a big tree, a railing, a table, etc. No matter what it is, as long as you can hold your hand and your camera, we can use it.
Although it may not be as stable as a tripod, I think it is also very helpful.
OK! That's all for the posture of the entire body. Next, let's look at the movements of the hands.
1.3 Holding
When holding the camera with your hands, the holding posture is very important.
We should pay attention to the following points:
The first thing to note is that the left hand must hold the lens, because the lens is still quite heavy. If you do not drag the lens with your left hand, but carefully grab the left edge of the camera, you will feel very uncomfortable. You can try it, the left edge of the camera is not big at all, and there is no handle, so it is not suitable for holding in the place where you put it.
In addition, the lens is too heavy. It is inevitable that there will be a nodding motion when the camera is taking pictures, which will cause our picture to be unclear, so be sure to hold your left hand under the lens. This is the easiest thing to forget. . Because many students, I actually took them out after the lecture, they would still forget this posture. But this is really important.
If you are in a vertical composition, we recommend holding the camera with your right hand.
The reason is also very simple. You can imagine: When you buy a bottle of wine and go home, you are carrying the bottle to go home, and you are still holding the bottle to go home?
It must be the most stable to carry the wine under your hand. If you drag the bottom of the wine bottle on your wrist and drag it home, others will think "you are sick".
This is very dangerous, and it is easy to break the wine bottle. So it's the same with the camera. If you use the camera with your right hand to take a vertical shot, it may not look good. So the right hand should be relatively stable.
Someone might say, oops!
My left hand is more powerful. I am left-handed. I'm sorry that the industrial design of the camera does not have the handle on the left. So you have to get used to this posture. The right hand is always up. We will talk about the second reason why the right hand must be up.
1.4 Which eye to use for framing
The reason is that it has something to do with the eyes. Do you use your left or right eye to look at the viewfinder?
This is very particular, our SLR camera has a small hole, from the small hole you can see the front scenery, that is called the viewfinder. Most of the mirrorless cameras do not have this thing, only a back screen, so you don’t need to care about the mirrorless camera students, of course you look at the screen with two eyes.
If you have a SLR camera or a mirrorless camera with a similar structure to this viewfinder, then you should pay attention.
When we put the camera in front of our eyes to take a photo, if we use the left eye to view the view, both of your eyes will be blocked "both will be blocked by the camera body."
Because there will be a handle protruding from the right side of the camera, but if you use your right eye to aim at the viewfinder, your left eye will be exposed. You can imagine that the left eye will be very important when it is exposed. It can be used to observe the surrounding surroundings. Some people say teacher: If I have both eyes open, one eye looks at the scene inside the camera and the other looks at the image outside. The images of these two eyes overlap, and I feel dizzy, and I can't see anything.
That’s okay. You can close your left eye first and use your right eye to look at the image in the camera. After you have completed the composition, open your left eye to observe the environment and wait for the shooting opportunity.
The same is true in vertical format. If you hold your right hand on top, if you use your left eye to view the view, then this camera will block your other eye and prevent you from observing the environment.
But if you use your right eye to frame the view, your left eye will also be exposed. It is very important to grasp the timing of the capture.
Then I want to take an example, I want to take this cloud, you think this cloud is beautiful. Then I don’t know when the bird will fly in. If you just shoot a cloud in the viewfinder, you see the bird fly in and press the shutter. The brain conducts this electrical signal until you press the shutter button. , The bird may fly over its head.
So, when you compose the picture, you must open your left eye and check if there are any birds around. Will it fly in right away? When is the best time for me to press the shutter, etc. These issues are all within your grasp.