How to take photos with feelings?

So how to take beautiful snow photos in winter?

Photography experts give these tips!

Choose the right equipment

Before shooting, the first step is to choose the equipment. The right camera equipment can help you survive in the snow. Camera selection is divided into body and lens. There is no need to think too much about the body. Basically, SLR cameras can meet the needs of shooting.

Reason for choosing wide-angle lens

Wide-angle lens refers to a photographic lens with a focal length shorter than a standard lens, a larger angle of view than a standard lens, a longer focal length than a fisheye lens, and a smaller angle of view than a fisheye lens. On snowy days, especially in vast places covered by ice and snow, such as Bashang grassland, etc., the wide angle can show the texture of "thousands of miles of ice and thousands of miles of snow drifting".

Reasons for choosing telephoto

Telephoto lenses are used to capture exciting scenery in the distance. Standing on the land of ice and snow, if you want to take pictures of the silvery world in the distance, a telephoto lens is indispensable. For example, on Bashang, we often shoot scenes of thousands of horses galloping in the snow.

Choose the best light

Photography is the art of light and shadow, and shooting snow scenes also requires the use of light and shadow. After all, the weather with snow is not necessarily gloomy. When the snow clears up and the sun shines, the weather will be clearer.

Glacier Colored Rocks

Lang Lixing’s ice and snow photography art works have a refreshing and cool atmosphere. A picture of Zhang Yujie's icy heart and crystal clear scenery makes you unknowingly step into a clean and untainted world of ice and snow. Here you can "appreciate its color, order, rhythm, and harmony to your heart's content, so as to get a glimpse of your deepest soul" (Zong Bai in Chinese). These ice and snow scenes are ever-changing and fantastic. However, these are all real scenes refined based on the photographer's imagination and skillful use of photography techniques.

This article uses an interview with photographer Lang Lixing to present his thoughts and experiences on ice and snow photography. I hope that through the dialogue with him, I can provide you with technical support in shooting ice and snow, and I hope that you can His persistence in photographic art creation will give readers greater inspiration.

The charm of ice and snow photography - there is suffering, there is joy, and there is even more gain

As a photographer who loves ice and snow, you cannot be afraid of suffering or the cold. If you don’t possess these two Well, that's unlikely to succeed. I have been photographing ice and snow in the past few years, and behind every photo there is a story, some happy, some joyful, some painful.

Where is the photographer? He wants his camera or his life. I fell into the river at that time. I was holding the tripod in one hand and the camera in the other hand, and didn't touch any water at all. But my leather jacket and pants are all wet

Choose the scene

Before shooting, we must determine what we want to shoot. For example, winter snow scenes such as snow-capped mountains, frozen lakes, ice strips on trees, etc. are all rich themes in our photography creations. But how to combine these images into our photos to show the most beautiful side of winter snow scenery. Reasonable selection of pictures and perfect composition will allow us to harvest real snowy blockbusters.

Grasp the details

In photography, choosing whether to shoot a large and comprehensive picture or a small and detailed picture is everyone’s choice. But in this, perfect details are the top priority of the picture. In close-up pictures, use a macro lens to show snowflakes or traces of people and cows and horses passing by on the snow; in long-range pictures, clearly show cows and horses on the snow or the smoke of cottages. Clear details help us get more outstanding results. photos.

Keep it steady

Compared to cameras, mobile phones are much lighter. If the mobile phone is not stable, no matter how good the light is, there is nothing you can do. Therefore, the first step to taking good photos is to hold your phone steady. When shooting super night scenes, you can install a tripod on your mobile phone. If conditions are limited, you can also use bottles or other items to support it.

2. Use good light

From the perspective of light, it can be roughly divided into forward light, side light and backlight. When taking pictures, if you want to take pictures of blue sky and white clouds without leaving the sky blank. Damn it, the best thing to do is to avoid backlighting as much as possible.

At night, you can use a flash to fill in the light.

Learn to compose pictures

Many beginners like to place the subject in the middle, and such photos will look dull. For beginners, you can try the "rule of thirds" composition, that is, stagger the subject from the center and place it to the left or right of the center.