Introduction: Sometimes I bake snacks or handmade items, and I always want to take a photo and share it with everyone, but how to take a good photo? Learn to use indoor natural light and match some appropriate props, so that you can stay at home.

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Large aperture fixed focus lens: Creates beautiful natural light indoors with shallow depth of field. The intensity varies depending on the size of the window and the shooting time. In any case, it is better to use a large aperture fixed focus lens above F2.8 for shooting.

On the one hand, it can ensure shooting in low-light environments, on the other hand, it is also easy to shoot beautiful shallow depth of field, creating an aesthetic effect of separation of front and back in sketch photography.

Large-aperture fixed-focus lenses are used for shooting lifestyle sketches because they can create beautiful bokeh.

Find the golden time and location for shooting As the position of the sun changes, the intensity and angle of the light outside the window will have different effects.

Find an opportunity to observe the light coming in from the window of your home. When is your favorite or most suitable time to take pictures? Or if there are multiple windows with different directions in your home, choose different window light according to different times and seasons.

Take the shot.

The direction of incident sunlight varies throughout the year, morning and evening. Have you discovered the golden moment of window light in your home? Make good use of window elements such as curtains or blinds. Windows in your home are often matched with different types of curtains. Some

There may also be special pendants. When shooting, you can consider whether these elements can create some special effects. For example, some curtains can produce different colors of light when they are closed, and the shadows cast by light through the blinds are also different.

It is distinctive. If there are transparent and colorful pendants on the windows, the light and shadow cast will be different.

Through curtains of different colors, the colors of light obtained are also different.

Pay attention to the white balance setting adjustment to avoid mixed light. Generally, when shooting indoors on a sunny day, the white balance does not need to be set to daylight mode, but if you have a color temperature tester, you can control the white balance more accurately.

Of course, if you don’t have a color temperature tester, you can also find a white object as a standard to facilitate white balance adjustment of RAW files.

In addition, to minimize the color mixing interference of other lights, when shooting with natural light outside the window, it is recommended to turn off the original indoor lights and use natural light as the only light source, which can increase the three-dimensional sense of the subject or create a higher contrast effect.

Only when there are transparent and colorful decorations on the window can you make better use of the colorful light and shadow projected by it.

Too much mixed light will mess up the color of the picture and affect the light and shadow effects.

Learn to "adjust" light Although natural light itself is said to be "dead", we who hold cameras are "alive". We can also "adjust" the natural light from the window by using some small means.

For example, curtains can be used to reduce the light intensity. Some friends are used to adding a layer of translucent gauze to the curtains. This layer of gauze can be used to soften the light.

But the most basic thing is to control the light through the exposure settings in the camera.

When shooting with a tripod, you can only control the exposure by adjusting the shutter value. If you are shooting handheld, you may need to combine the adjustment of the brightness to ensure that the ideal exposure effect is achieved within a safe shutter speed.

If you feel that the light is too hard and there are no suitable window elements to use, you might as well try moving the subject away from the window so that the light hitting the subject is less concentrated.

If you feel that the contrast of the subject is too strong, you can also use white cardboard as a reflector, facing the direction of the light projection. Through reflection, part of the light can hit the subject in the opposite direction, enhancing the brightness of the shadow part.

Arrange an appropriate background. Although the photo is taken by a window using natural light, it does not mean that the window must be in the frame.

According to the style and atmosphere you want to create, choose a suitable background. Paper, curtains, wooden boards, etc. are all available materials. Appropriately matched with some small decorations, you can make the picture richer and more interesting.

You can choose a simple material of the same color as the subject as the background.

When the subject itself is colorful, a simple background is needed to avoid cluttering the picture.