How to shoot opera photography

The ancient art of opera, with its songs and dances, is so profound that it often fascinates people. As an opera photography enthusiast, with basic general knowledge of opera, solid photography skills and perseverance is the basis for good opera pictures. A good set of works, but also covers the photographer's understanding of the work of opera, expression and sublimation ......

If you want to show the sense of movement, so that the subject of a certain degree of blurring, you can be appropriately slowed down the shutter speed in order to achieve the effect of the picture of the virtualization. This blurring of the subject due to movement. Such as filming the dragon dance, with 1/60 seconds can be captured in the image of a slightly false dragon body, and with 1/15 seconds, the dragon body into a piece of virtual, to obtain a strong sense of movement of the picture effect. Shooting rotating dance action, such as the need to show clearly, should be used more than 1/250 second shutter speed, a little slower dance speed, or the head does not move the body rotating, available 1/125 second or 1/60 second shutter speed, so that the rotation of the skirt is slightly false, resulting in a sense of movement, if you take the shutter speed of 1/30 second or less, the sense of movement will be more intense.

Before each shooting, you should first understand the plot, grasp the plot changes, for the climax of the performance process, the need to focus on shooting the characters, scenes, and martial arts, dance moves, etc. to have a preliminary concept, such as martial arts theater Za rely on the Wusheng, the Wudan's rotating action is extremely exciting, which is generally in the appearance or a fight before the start, and in the rotation of the actors will have a slight pause before the adjustment process. Adjustment process, this time will give the photographer a sufficient time to prepare for the composition, if possible, it is best to watch a performance before shooting. Doing this will ensure that the performance is captured without missing a beat.

The second thing is to choose a good shooting point, generally choose a slightly side position is ideal. The distance from the stage, in the fifth to the sixth row of the position to shoot, because this perspective is exactly balanced with the stage platform, will not make the photos taken out of the perspective too tilted.

In terms of artistic expression, the play is based on the traditional Peking Opera's "singing, reading, doing and dancing", with a wide range of artistic elements such as drama, opera, poetic drama and dance drama, etc. Its atmospheric and condensed choreography and the use of dream-like lighting are two of the play's major highlights. The successful use of a large number of familiar words, realistic and imaginative stage art, the perfect blend of Peking Opera music and symphonic music, the combination of real and virtual lighting design and time and space conversion, as well as beautiful and colorful dance performances, is a kind of innovation of the traditional Peking Opera, with a strong humanistic feelings, showing the unique local conditions and customs in Jinan, and bringing the audience a strong audio-visual impact.