How to take Christmas photos?

Christmas is coming. Although Christmas is not a holiday in China, young friends also like to have a romantic Christmas on Christmas Eve. Christmas photos, of course, should highlight the flavor of Christmas, especially the portrait photos of Christmas, to be warm and sweet. In the days near Christmas, let's briefly review the Christmas photo tips.

Learn how to take pictures at Christmas in one minute.

How to take pictures at Christmas? We have read many articles before. Today, let's watch a little video and spend a minute learning how to take pictures at Christmas.

1 minute to watch the Christmas photo shoot.

There are actually two kinds of Christmas photos, those with sisters and those without sisters. But no matter what kind of photos, since it is Christmas, it is natural to have a Christmas atmosphere. In today's article, let's take a look at how to take good-looking photos at Christmas.

Christmas trees all over the street are good choices for photographers.

Christmas is bound to be a good time to improve communication with my sister, and taking pictures is a good way.

In addition, this Christmas, our digital video channel and audio channel jointly launched a series of tips and gift selection guides for your reference. From today to Christmas, we will bring you a series of high-quality articles and videos. Please don't miss them.

Nice Christmas photo. These props are indispensable.

In order to take a good Christmas photo, besides the basic shooting skills, some props and tips are essential. In today's article, we mainly talk about tricks and props, as well as the related content of portrait shooting. Of course, if you are interested, you can read my previous article. Here, the Christmas photo-taking skills are more detailed. How to be willful on Christmas Eve? A different Christmas photo guide. "

The core of Christmas shooting is to highlight the Christmas atmosphere.

Christmas photos want to show off two core elements, one is the use of light, especially the use of light spots. The other is to use reasonable color matching and "posing" modeling. Compared with other techniques, these two techniques are easier to implement, and novices are more likely to take beautiful photos.

Large aperture is an important way to take Christmas photos.

Besides cameras, we can also use some props, the most common of which is our pattern cards. We introduced a lot about this shooting method. We just need to put these cards in front of the camera and shoot them with a large aperture, and then we can turn the original circular spot into the shape we need.

We can also use some props to make the light spots form different shapes.

Paper jam in front of the lens will change the spot shape.

On the other hand, the most important thing in Christmas photography is to control the color and shape, so another task of our Christmas photography is to ensure that the objects in the photos are more exquisite and the color matching is more natural. We can choose green and red as the main colors of Christmas, and the composition should be dense, so that the photos will look good.

How to match the object at Christmas must be scattered first, and then pay attention to the application of prospect.

Of course, there are many techniques for taking pictures at Christmas, but the most important thing is to control the exposure. No matter what the scene is, overexposure or underexposure is not appropriate. Only when the exposure is correct can we take better-looking photos.

Exposure is another core factor in taking pictures at Christmas, especially in the light or in the snow.

Christmas photography tips, we have too many strategies and introductions, and today's photography skills about scenery and still life are here. Starting from the next page, we will focus on some new things, that is, Christmas portrait shooting skills and how to skin portrait works.

How to take a good portrait of Christmas?

Christmas is a romantic day, and a good day is certainly suitable for taking pictures. When taking pictures at Christmas, you should first pay attention to matching equipment. In portrait shooting, our first choice is to choose a few reliable shots. The first premise of a lens is to have a large aperture. Only a large aperture can create a beautiful blur effect.

For a portrait of Christmas, a large aperture lens is preferred. If not, a telephoto end like 18- 135mm is also acceptable.

However, when choosing a large aperture lens, we try to choose a lens of 50- 135mm, which is more suitable for shooting portraits, while a wide-angle lens is easy to cause a big face and needs to be used with caution. If there is no large aperture lens, telephoto shooting portraits is also a good choice. However, in an indoor environment, telephoto is not easy to operate, and it is probably just a big photo, so a 50mm f/ 1.8 is a good choice for entry-level SLR or entry-level micro-single users. If you use a set of pan/tilt, you can also use a longer focal length and the largest aperture to create blur while ensuring composition.

Christmas portrait shooting should be warm and sweet.

Christmas portraits should be sweet and sweet, full of candy flavor. Therefore, when shooting portraits at Christmas, on the one hand, we need to pay attention to the matching of the background, on the other hand, we need to pay attention to the matching of clothes. Anyway, Christmas is a happy day. First of all, there should be bright colors. In the background selection, we choose a clean background, not too messy, especially not with objects with prominent colors. In action processing, the core is nature, and there can be no sense of distance and no feeling of strangeness. We can use all kinds of props to enrich the movements of our characters.

Using various props can make photos more natural and relaxed.

Portrait shooting, as well as some tips on shooting techniques, we also share them with you here:

1, increase the exposure compensation as much as possible, and brighten the exposure compensation by 0.3~ 1EV, which can make the skin tone better.

2. In terms of color optimization, it is easier to use the portrait color mode of the fuselage in the later stage of the photo.

3. Avoid smooth, multi-purpose side light, side backlight, backlight, better effect.

4. In composition, use an extended background, and the lighting in the background is a good helper for shooting.

Making good use of backlight and side backlight can add a lot of points to photos.

Portrait shooting is only the first step, and we need to make many adjustments later. But many friends have their own experience in color matching, which is easy to liquefy, but peeling is a complicated step. There are many online tutorials, but there are not many details. Let's focus on how to carry out portrait dermabrasion.

Let girls prefer simple and practical dermabrasion introduction.

Normally, we don't talk much about peeling. This Christmas, we will introduce some tips for peeling as a Christmas present. For PS dermabrasion, it can be understood that spots and acne on the skin are "variegated" relative to the skin. The core of dermabrasion is to extract the mottled part of the skin in various ways and then remove it in various ways. Today we are going to talk about how to keep the details better.

For the sake of friendship, we don't need models to demonstrate. Let's use this picture to make a demonstration.

Before peeling, we try to complete all the post-adjustment of the photos, because after peeling, a lot of post-adjustment can easily cause distortion of the peeling part. Portrait shooting, under the premise of not being exposed, we try to shoot brightly, so that the skin color looks better. First of all, in the first step, we can use the spot repair brush tool or the imitation stamp tool to remove the obvious acne marks.

When using the stain repair brush, remember to choose the filling method: content identification, so as to remove some larger parts.

After completing the first step, our second part is to highlight the "variegated" part of the skin. It is called channel stripping because we have to operate the channel for processing. In PS, there are three channels: red, green and blue. Because people's skin color is generally red, the contrast between green and blue will be even greater. We use image calculation, then choose green and blue, and overlay the front image at the bottom. After superposition, a new channel alpha 1 will be obtained.

Image-calculate, and then use the green+blue channel, the way is front superposition.

The purpose of channel calculation is to separate the discordant parts of the face from the skin color. After the first step, we use Filter-Other-Gao Fancha to further highlight the details. Note that the radius is generally 2.0-5.0 when keeping the Gao Fancha, and this step can be replaced by improving the contrast.

Gao Fancha kept it for the purpose of further extracting acne.

In order to further separate, we continue to use image calculation and use strong light to merge Alpha 1 channel, which can enhance the separation degree. We can do this step 2-3 times.

Further separate the discordant parts of the face.

After processing, we will get a final alpha channel. We know that the passage is only black and white, and there is no umbrella color. We need to choose the black part of the final Alpha channel, which is the acne we choose. First, we hold down Ctrl, and then click on the channel. We can select the bright part (the part with more than 50% gray) in this channel, and then we can use reverse selection to select the acne part.

Finally, we choose the constituency.

Add a curve layer and adjust the curve slightly upward.

We have got all the acne part selections, and then we return to the image, and then we use the layer curve to add a layer of the selected curve. All we have to do is adjust the curve to protrude upwards in the middle, and then we can smooth out the photo. Of course, we'd better use the mask tool and use the black mask to cover the glasses and other parts to avoid reducing the details.

Photos after peeling.

There are no photos of dermabrasion.

Of course, a single treatment may not be effective, and we can carry out multiple treatments. The author made a simple treatment here, and interested friends can try it themselves.

The two main ways to master grinding are smooth grinding and groove grinding. As the name implies, smooth grinding is achieved by various operations of fuzzy tools, and the effect is better and more direct. All kinds of Mito software are in use, but the disadvantage is that it is easy to lose the details of the skin, and the effect of channel dermabrasion is definitely not as direct as smooth dermabrasion, but it can better preserve the details and texture of the skin. Please try the photo you took for your sister.