3 tips to teach you how to make a good photo with ease

Long vacation has been drifting away, hiking back you must have taken a lot of good photos. Compared to the general tourism to see the scene, now many of the SLR group does not love tourism, preference for "travel" or "wandering", travel more attention to the cultural landscape capture and feelings. The corresponding photography is called documentary photography.

Documentary photography is usually to express a universal theme, the picture is strong and profound meaning, so the sugar-water tablets of the late set of hold can not live documentary photography. For many photography beginners, pay attention to the expression of the theme, the real record of the humanities scenery but always because of the limitations of color and environment so that the picture lost a lot of artistic conception.

For example, the Tibetan old man, holding the turn round smiled very brightly, but the mediocre hue makes it can not become a "good" documentary works.

Figure 1 before modification

After the adjustment of the picture of the tone level rich many, and strong contrast to let the viewer from the visual sense of the theme of the intensity of the photo, pure and profound.

Figure 2 After modification

How to make this kind of documentary photography more profound and visual impact after the later modification? Professional and simple good photo software provides you with a variety of ways to express the texture, today and you share the 3 tips to deal with the documentary photos.

Trick One: Filter "one-button" fast out of effect

Many documentary photographers like to use a single tone to reduce the color of the visual interference of the viewer, so that the content of the picture directly hit the heart, so there is another advantage is to make up the shooting caused by the bland color problem. Good photos of the filter effect there are many different styles of monochrome filters, lomo, ink rendering, ink style, Black-and-white cartoons and so on, you can make your picture in an instant to enhance the texture of the theme at the same time.

The procedure is very simple: select "Filter/Border" in the menu bar above the good photo, find the "ink Lomo" Filter application, and adjust the filter strength according to your own needs.

Figure 3 Filter a Shifa

Coup II: The use of saturation to create black and white solid color

When the color is too rich, it will lead to the reduction of the subject strength, for example, a child in a colorful light, her smile is very powerful, but it is undeniable that your visual focus is very easy to the right side of the colored tablecloth or the top of the colorful lights to attract the past.

Fig. 4 The interference factors before modification are more

In order to avoid these objects causing "grab mirror", we can choose to change the picture into Black-and-white photos. In the right-hand toolbar, find the "basic adjustment"-"saturation", reducing the saturation to 100 and becoming a grayscale image. At the same time can be appropriate to increase the black spots to enhance image texture.

Fig. 5 Reduction of saturation

The effect is very obvious, black and white not only increase the sense of poise, but also bright color interference from the photos erased, your eyes are very intuitive to be attracted to the little girl's face, very arresting and has a profound meaning.

Figure 6 adjusted black and white effect

Coup III: Composition + sharpening contrast frame moment

Snapshots make it difficult to capture the moment while also taking into account the composition, in addition, the current digital camera to take out the characters often appear smooth and bright skin, which we guarantee the quality of the documentary photos brought a certain degree of difficulty.

Figure 7 before modification

The first step, as long as the master of the composition method, the screen will not appear messy. Click on the toolbar in the "crop/correction", the focus of the picture-the child's face to the visual center point, that is, cutting mode, nine Sudoku at the intersection of the auxiliary line, but also the lower left corner of the interference object cropped out of the screen.

Fig. 8 composition

The second step, the appropriate increase in black spots, so that picture contrast enhancement, with documentary photographic texture.

Figure 9 Add black dots

The third step, in order to imitate the film's particle feeling, in the right-hand toolbar to find "fuzzy/sharpening", increase the degree of sharpening and sharpening the radius, so that the picture has a condensation, so that the viewer has to appreciate the "fixed moment" the feeling of beauty.

Figure 10 Sharpening

The final effect of the list, retains the color at the same time, but also retains the interaction between the young girl and the lively, and sharpening the grain after the sense of the film has removed the effect of the frivolous, so that this piece of documentary works in the stable without losing uniquely.

Figure 11 Final effect

Good photos of the 3 documentary small coup simple and easy to use, almost all is a step of effectiveness. Whether it's an SLR or a card machine, or even a mobile phone, a good photo can be used to get your documentary photos up a notch quickly. Character interaction and nature, as long as you pick up the camera capture, will become a beautiful scenery.