How to shoot a live fashion modeling show

How to shoot a live fashion modeling show

Fashion modeling show is full of challenges due to the model's movement and posture change. So do you know what are the techniques for shooting a live clothing modeling show? Take a look below!

On the complexity of the light source, illumination, color temperature changes at any time; models walking fast, short pause time; shooting area is limited, these are to the shooting of fashion shows and modeling competitions to bring certain difficulties. Practical experience shows that to shoot a good runway show, we must be prepared to equipment, familiar with the venue light, improve shutter speed, find the beauty of modeling, capture the beauty of the moment.

A good preparation of equipment to ensure clarity

It is best to prepare two SLR cameras, a digital body of 8 to 16 million pixels and a film body. One body with a 28-135mm lens and the other with a 70-200mm lens is more comfortable for capturing photos. If you use black and white film, use professional high-speed film with ISO 400 and 800. Try to use a large aperture when shooting, which will increase the shutter speed and avoid blurring.

Two, with two kinds of observation

In order to shoot the best moments, by observing the models wearing different styles of clothing, see the model's personality, selectively capture valuable moments, so that readers can appreciate the picture, see the shooter has a unique artistic intelligence and keen observation and judgment ability. Since shooting fashion shows and modeling competitions is between photojournalism and art photography. A photography category, the shooter must have both good artistic training and a keen sense of news. In the shooting to do hard observation, hard to shoot, hard to think, so that you can shoot a different kind of excellent works.

The conditions of the shooter, from the whole tracking model shooting location to start, to preview or preliminaries can be used to watch two eyes.

1, with the eyes of the judges: through the scene to understand which models have the best temperament, may become the champion of the contest candidates, clear their focus on this shooting.

2, with the photographer's eyes: through watching and shooting previews, preliminaries, familiar with the entire performance or competition procedures, understand the ability to show all the models and temperament, from which know which moments have news and artistic value, and familiar with a particular style of dress, to determine the best shooting angle. In this way, you will be able to capture the key models, key moments, key scenes, key light effects, and key modeling in your mind when you are formally shooting.

Three, capture the essentials

Whether it is a fashion show or a modeling contest, it is necessary to observe, understand and refine the scene.

On-site observation, that is, carefully observe each model's posture, clothing, modeling, digging its rich facial expression and a variety of body language, observation of the model walks on the stage modeling of the sparse relationship between the dress and the background of the relationship between the model to capture the movement of the dress in the movement of the sense of movement and so on. Capture, handheld camera on the movement of the model tracking focus, capture the model in the display of the beautiful body and modeling, do not put down the camera to watch, if this time there is a beautiful moment, you will be caught off guard, lose the opportunity.

Live understanding and on-site refinement, that is, in the model's wonderful interpretation of the shape of the body modeling understanding into the geometry of the points, lines, surfaces, through the judgment of the model's body shape, curves, personality and clothing fashion factors in the moment to frame down into a work.

Due to the need to display, with the beat of the music and the artistic effect of the choreography, the illumination of the light is variable, in order to ensure that the exposure is accurate, you can set the camera in advance of the aperture priority, the aperture is set at the maximum value. Shooting, the camera's shutter will be automatically adjusted with the intensity of the lighting, so that the image captured clear. If the lighting is dark and the shutter speed is too low, you can increase the camera's sensitivity to ISO400 or 800, and if necessary, to ISO1600 (but generally the image taken with ISO1600 is very coarse, and the saturation and transparency of the colors are somewhat reduced).

The light source on the runway is generally yellowish in color, and adjusting the color temperature of the camera to about 3200K before shooting will reduce the yellow component in the photo. The metering mode should be determined according to the subject of the shooting, available center focus metering or average metering. If you're shooting a large scene or a medium-sized scene, you can set the average metering; if you're shooting a close-up, the metering mode should be set at the center of the room.

Fourth, pick up the highlights

After shooting a wonderful modeling competition, do not immediately leave the scene, as the saying goes: "good show in the back." Wonderful highlights often appear after the game.

A "thousand miles to pick a competition" after the cruel competition, after all, the red flower is only one. In their imminent separation, some of the winners and embraced together to congratulate; some were eliminated and went to the side of the secret crying, these touching highlights and the moment of truth, is a good time to shoot a masterpiece.