The subject of road photography, not many people pay attention. Everyone feels that there is nothing good to shoot on the road. But it is precisely this very common thing, which is shot through a reasonable composition and a suitable angle, but it is a very interesting subject for shooting. So how do you make an ordinary road photograph look artistic? Today, let's discuss together how to make the road feel like an artistic blockbuster.
1. Take advantage of symmetry
When the scenery on both sides of the road repeats regularly, you can shoot in the middle of the road under the premise of ensuring safety, so that the picture is full of symmetrical beauty and interest. Many scenes on both sides of the road are symmetrical and repeated continuously, which produces a kind of arrangement beauty. In addition, symmetry can often give people a feeling of infinite extension, with a lot of room for imagination.
2. Shooting from the top
Looking for aerial photography or aerial photography of commanding heights, reflecting the overall shape of the road, is also a shooting plan worth trying. When taking an overhead shot, try to choose a curved mountain path, a road with repeated ups and downs, a crossroad, and a roundabout. The lines here tend to be richer and more interesting. If shooting a circling road is too monotonous, we can take advantage of this favorable terrain to take long exposure road shots and use the light trails to outline the curves of the road.
3. Use the material of the sky
Can take advantage of the sky in different places. In fact, roads have a very weak sense of existence in life, and only some specific roads will give people a visual enjoyment. Generally speaking, if we want to photograph the road with beauty, we need to add some elements to the picture to make the finished film more beautiful. Among them, the most suitable and most beautiful element is the sky, because the scenery of the sky is changeable, we can use this changeability to make our overall picture have a sense of atmosphere. When a photo has a sense of atmosphere, we can taste different beauty in the photo!
4. Create a sense of movement
Usually when we shoot static things, the most common mistake and the most persistent is that we make static things static. In fact, we can use some shooting skills to shoot the static things in our life into dynamic effects. What we need to do is to simply slow down the shutter during the shooting process to create a sense of speed. Using the characteristics of relative motion, the camera and the object to be photographed maintain a synchronous horizontal motion at a similar speed, and with an appropriate shutter speed, the background can be blurred and presented with a sense of flow.
5. Add decorations
If you want to make the work we shoot more artistic, you can try shooting in an open place, so that you can shoot an endless road. If you can add a little decoration, such as a stop sign, not too many are enough, and the effect will be wonderful.
