Wednesday, November 14, 2012

how to shoot a beautiful graduation photo


Graduation season again! Wearing graduation gowns moment, also entered a symbol of a new life stage, of course, want to leave an eternal happy memories with loved ones, you ready photographed beautiful moments? Let us introduce the elements of graduation photography it!

Hardware equipment

Since the friendly family and friends come to celebrate, the group photo is of course essential. The shooting group photo suggestions with tripod and wide-angle lens , in order that all included in the King, anti-shake, and photographed the gate / Department of the door plaque. The permit with teleconverter head to take close-up images (such as the moment of the ceremony, award certificates), to capture the best look. If shooting with a long mirror graduation ceremony, consider using a monopod toincrease stability, reduce hand tremors opportunity I can to maintain a certain degree of mobility.

Camera settings

Shoot a group photo, the best aperture settings F5.6 or impact by the depth of field in order to avoid the portrait subject; shutter set to slightly higher than the safety shuttercoefficient, in order to reduce tremor and photographed failure photo; picture quality Please consider Raw (if only two a choice, it is recommended to use the RAW) and JPEG simultaneously, so you can quickly back to browse while camera for partial repair, can also be raised in post-production photo tolerance. Need to set the flashing lights , please photometric amount transferred weak, more use of the available light. Such as a wide-angle lens to shoot a group photo, to pay attention to the problem of lens distortion, such as the lens is 24-70mm, wide angle to shoot as much as possible not to use the left and right sides will be stretched because the lens becomes. Similarly metering should pay special attention to the camera's metering might think, mostly black graduation gown, dark environment and lengthened exposure time, so that the person's face appears overexposed, shooting a close-up of the most common problems, then you can the use of the camera's spot metering measured position of a face to resolve the problem of exposure.
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Shooting graduation phase techniques

Some graduation photo can not be missing scenes and posture in this column points for reference:
The campus door / classroom building / group photo
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The wide-angle lens + from waist height up shooting By ybysforgan_jack
Award certificates moment
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High shutter + aperture + level shooting By Richard Kwan
Throwing Quartet cap
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High-speed shutter (at least 1/250 or faster) + inhibition Photo / down shooting By Jarnott from a height

Site selection

In addition to the the general friend more than a campus-wide shooting graduation photo, Hong Kong Park, Tai Po Waterfront Park , Cyberport or Disney are shooting a popular place for graduation photo, if you have other memorable places (such as dormitories, stations, etc.), Of course, also can be used to take the picture. Please pay attention to more graduation photos for group photo, good routes and timing, pre-designed or pre-line time and avoid wasting time on the same day in the real-time trip planning.
Graduation is an important life events, but the shooting of graduates is not difficult to imagine, as long as the individual shooting skills with the scene changes done enough preparation in advance, you can capture beautiful graduation photo! Finally, I hope that you can quickly master the above skills, photographed a series of beautiful graduation photo series for family and friends!