Human life with all forms of daily activities and life is always interesting to be made object in the photo. interesting moments that can arise because triggered by activities that feel unique and unusual. Whether it's activities within cultural customs and activities in everyday life that are usually very different from the life of the people of big cities.
Human Interest in the work of photography itself if described is describing the personal life of human or human interaction and emotional expression that shows people with their lives, all of which bring a sense of interest and sympathy for the people who photograph it.
Human Interest Photography may be slightly different from Journalism, although Human interest photos may be included in the journalistic category as well. Human Interest photos capture more unusual moments and moments, the more dramatic the moment that the more successful photographs of human interest are. for photographers who are used to photographing and observing social problems, then the object of this background human activity will be a work of photographs that are so interesting to see and certainly will not be difficult to do. But the problem is how to shoot humant interest is good especially for us who just studied photography, photographing Human Interest is sometimes not as easy as we imagine. Many problems that occur in the field as there is an embarrassed photographed, prohibited, or hard to find a good photo object.
Tips photographing human interest photos below should be considered in order to get a good photo:
- There is no standard rule in photographing human interest, but there is something we must understand before photographing the human object.
- A good human interest photo is able to tell a story, show a relationship or be inspired to the viewer.
- Human interest photos can be any human object, whether children, parents, or even our friends.
- A photo of human interest without a message, feels empty, and gives no benefit to the viewer.
- In many cases, delivering messages in photos is not difficult. We just have to think before squeezing the shutter.
- Ask yourself, what do we want in the photo, after that just push the shutter.
- When photographing a small child, some photographers only take candid without interacting with them.
- Relationships and good communication, will make the interaction with the child so as to generate characters in the photo.
- Make the environment feel comfortable with our presence. Human interest photos will usually be more natural look when they are comfortable.
- To shoot outdor done in the morning and afternoon, when the quality of the sun is not hard and soft.
- Understand your camera, read the manual and learn about camera usage optimally.
- Sometimes many good moments are missed because only we do not understand our camera.
- Taking photos of human interest photos is fun. So take lots of photos.
Travel Light and be simple.
when traveling is very important to bring a simple and efficient photo equipment, indeed if you do not want to miss the moment usually the photographer brought 1 bag containing a full camera and lens. but this can make us uncomfortable and the atmosphere around us is also uncomfortable, to photograph the human interest if you can camera and lens as necessary. this way makes us not the center of attention of the environment around us.
Photographing Candid Prepare the telephoto lens
the lens I like to take pictures of human is a lens with a range of 50mm, the lens is as short and as small as this allows me to interact with the surrounding community. but sometimes there are moments that are difficult to be taken because of the distance or the moment that is candid (natural). This is because of the reasons for producing photos that look good and attractive, spontaneous and reasonable. but it's good to prepare a telephoto lens 80-200 mm or 70-300 mm which can be a choice that can be used when we hunting photos of human interest candid.
Be creative and use the best angle (photo shoot).
When about to take pictures, use the right angle of view or shooting angle to produce a nice photo to look at. Do not rush when pressing the shutter button, because with hunted results we want to get even forgotten. good photography takes a mature concept, the concept can come from the angle and good composition, the right moment and the experience of photographing.
how it does not have a DSLR camera, but it only has a pocket camera and a smartphone. tips above tips can actually be used for smarphone and pocket camera, do not be discouraged. because a pocket camera or smartphone is usually easier to photograph the human interest. because people are not aware with our smartphone camera, and we can more freely take pictures.
For human interest, the most important thing is to capture the moment. Unlike landscape photography, still life, which we have a long enough time to capture and manage settings, capture human interest photos, we only have time under 1 second to take pictures. Therefore, there is much we need to pay attention to. Here's what matters, from camera settings and photographing techniques.
To freeze the moment, what is needed is a fast shutter speed, especially if the subject is moving, or we move, for example, on a boat like the photo below. I used to use a shutter speed of no less than 1/400 of a second while in a running boat.
For a photo chasing a moment, I usually set the ISO to Auto-ISO and set its shutter minimum to 1/400 sec or more. If you can not set minimum shutter, ISO should be set only manual. The benchmark if the day is still bright, can use ISO 100-200, but if the dark start such as cloudy day or late afternoon before sunset, safer to use ISO 400 or more. High ISO will help the camera get a fast shutter speed without making the photos dark.
Photo composition is important, but if it takes too long to think and move, the moment can pass. To pursue the moment, especially when the subject is moving or we move, it is better to take a photo first later in kroping.
Auto mode can fail, for example, the photo gets dark like the example photo in this paper. I usually use A / Av (Aperture priority) and matrix / evaluative metering modes. This type of metering is fooled by a bright reflection of water, rather than the little boy I focus on, as a result the image gets dark. To solve this problem, I describe the photo with Adobe Lightroom.
so from me hopefully useful
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26-05-2018
