How to take travel photos and how to capture passers-by during travel.

In addition to taking pictures of myself and my friends, I also take pictures of passers-by. In fact, there are many meaningful photos that everyone didn't see during the trip, but today Bian Xiao will talk to you about how to shoot passers-by during the trip.

If you take pictures, less is more. Make sure there are as few elements as possible in the picture. Don't have too many things to interfere. Don't shoot at the crowd! ! There are one or two people in the photo. It's good to know what they are doing.

Let me use some photos of passers-by I took during my trip to illustrate:

1, in the first case:

During your trip, you are attracted by the people you meet and the things you do, such as:

In the picture above, I saw a man with only one leg playing the accordion, and a girl sat opposite him and listened to him quietly.

2, the second case:

Travel, the local architecture, colors, things and so on attract you. People didn't do anything special, but people's integration into the local environment is better. If the following situations occur:

In the morning, I saw the cleaner sweeping the street. The clothes of the cleaner and the building behind him were very bright.

The local red tram, next to a passerby, can also reflect the local characteristics by pressing the shutter.

Passing a carpet shop, the whole door was carpeted and people were sitting on the carpet.

There are also some skills on how to take photos of passers-by with environment. I usually use the "trap composition method", which is actually to look at an environment in advance and wait for someone to enter, that is, to fall into your trap. Ha ha ha, when you press the shutter, it is a picture of the environment and local people, such as:

This road still has some characteristics. I waited for the "prey" on this road in advance, and then after a while, a man passed by on a bicycle, followed by a dog. When two people are not together, they press the shutter.

This one, when I passed by here, I took a fancy to this door, but it was a little empty to take this picture, so I stood there and waited for more than ten minutes, only occasionally one or two people passed by here. I constructed the map in advance, and when these two people came to the position I wanted, I pressed the shutter.

If you want to get closer to passers-by, you can actually strike up a conversation with passers-by, chat with them and take photos of them. For example, I actually communicate with passers-by:

Of course, communication with passers-by is also very important. You can try to strike up a conversation with those who are good-looking, and forget about those who are fierce.

Shooting mode 1. Complement (fusion or contrast) with the environment

2. Passers-by with stories (focusing on things to do, happiness, beliefs and other topics)

3. Take the initiative to ask you to take pictures, or take pictures of passers-by who you ask and get permission.

Take a photo with passers-by

Complementing the environment. The passers-by you shoot are either well integrated with the environment (such as ethnic characteristics) or have a great jump contrast with the environment (such as jumping out of bright colors from a dim background). Either way, the presence of this passerby can make the finishing touch to the environment. This is a photo of passers-by that is worth seeing.

The Bedouin sitting on the high mountain with the donkey looks like Captain Jack, but with a hint of melancholy.

Orthodox Jews on the roadside, this should be a very unusual costume outside Israel ~

The woman in red in front of the European ancient carving gate has a very striking temperament in the short dark day in northern Europe in winter.

Actually, I prefer the color of this picture, which is more vivid. Seeing such fresh and tense colors in the heavy old city of Jerusalem can't help but make people look twice.

A passerby with a story and a conscientious person are always particularly attractive. When we walk around the world, we will meet all kinds of people doing different things. Some are weird, some are pious, some are happy, and some may be simply serious. A vivid photo of passers-by is often inseparable from "what he (she) is doing".

Stories can have many themes: seriousness, happiness, sharp contrast with the behavior of people around them, love, piety and life, all of which are optional themes. Some people think that sad people are the most powerful subject, but I don't set foot in this subject, because I think shooting people in pain is a disrespect to the parties, just a personal understanding.

In the afternoon sunshine, an old man in rags was sitting in front of an exquisite shop desk and chair reading a newspaper, which was shot in Rotenberg.

In the Church of the Holy Sepulchre, devout Christians who lit candles for Jesus were afraid that tourists would go out in the wind and blew out the candles, and they were careful with their hands along the way.

This is an extremely poor village. They are all refugees from Vietnam who lost their nationality and built floating water villages on Tonle Sap Lake. When you visit this village by boat, you will see teenagers fishing in an incredibly dirty lake, a little girl holding tourists' boats to sell snakes, and an adult man stepping on wooden stakes to build a new house. Every picture is sad.

Sami people with reindeer walk out of the thick snow in winter, just like the snow forest in fairy tales.

3. Take the initiative to ask you to take pictures, or take pictures of passers-by who you ask and get permission.

This kind of person is cheerful, will be very cooperative, and welcomes your camera. In this case, you can clap your hands without considering it. But remember to show them the photos after shooting to show their respect and gratitude. But have you ever found that people who face the camera directly sometimes don't necessarily have the effect of taking candid photos?

Outside the sad wailing wall Square, teenagers are still smiling. When you see tourists passing by, you will wave happily and smile happily at the camera.

When I was lying idle by the sea, a little black came over and asked me to take his picture.

Two curious tourists I met on the road saw the SLR in my hand and took the initiative to take pictures of them.

In the Bedouin tent in the hinterland of the desert, the hospitable host smiled happily at the camera after offering a cup of sweet tea to the tourists.

Interact with local people

In addition to photographing passers-by, sometimes it is also a good choice to take photos with passers-by who can chat, and even leave unique memories for your journey. This kind of photo is often vivid, but because the camera is not in my own hand, fate composes expressions and so on.

Jing, a small fishing village with only 200 people near the Arctic Ocean, we took a Finnish bath (after steaming the sauna, we jumped into the Arctic Ocean naked). It was snowing at MINUS 20 degrees, and the village head and grandmother also came to visit us brave tourists, so we had such a group photo.

Tip 1. Composition: A vibrant travel photo must have one or two key people, no matter how big or small his/her proportion is in the photo, make sure that the focus is on this person. So either the background is clean, or focus on this "man with a story" with complex background. Don't shoot many people with the same depth of field in a big and chaotic scene, so you can't find the center of gravity.

2.snap: Snap must be fast on the basis of not disturbing each other. If you want to take a big picture of a single person, try to take it with a telephoto lens, and don't take too long (for reference, 99% of the close-range snapshots in the above examples have a focal length of 200mm or 300mm, and some photos have enlarged screenshots). You should think about the composition before lifting the camera. When you hold up the camera to take a snapshot, go away quickly. There are three kinds of passers-by, one is particularly resistant to being photographed, the other is particularly fond of being photographed, and the other is in between. Being photographed once or twice can be tolerated, but being photographed by the camera for a long time will also cause resentment. Most passers-by should be the third kind ~

3. Respect: I still want to emphasize that not everyone welcomes your camera. When I was in Safari, Africa, I took some photos in my car when I passed the local market. A man on the roadside immediately lifted a stone and tried to smash it. I learned from the tour guide that this kind of shooting is offensive in the eyes of many Africans. Also in Africa, I once saw a shopkeeper quarreling with two tourists. The reason is that tourists took a photo at the door when they saw the goods in the store were interesting, but the owner thought the photo was "mocking her store for being small and rotten". Therefore, it is very important to respect the wishes of the subject when shooting. This item is especially applicable to third world countries, the disabled and so on.

4. Artists in the performance venue can take photos normally, but street artists on the roadside still have to take snapshots and respect the wishes of others.