[China Photography News] You need to learn to change your mobile phone when you shoot the moon

September 6, 2022, China Photography, Issue 69

How to use a mobile phone to shoot the moon with a mood?

First, choose a clear night to avoid too many clouds to cover the moon. It is best that when the moon just rises in the evening, the sky is not completely black at this time, and the brightness of the moon is not so strong. You can take a beautiful blue tone sky, and the details of the moon are clearer. It is recommended to use the ingenious camera APP to query the approximate position of the moon rising in the position where the position of the moon is located. Find the right prospects and general shooting positions in advance to improve the shooting efficiency.

Secondly, you can use the professional mode of the mobile phone. The manual adjustment of the sensitivity is ISO 50 or ISO100. The focus mode is selected to select the MF file and adjust it to infinite far away. Why not use the automatic focus function of the mobile phone? Because automatic focusing is prone to running, making the picture look very vague. During the shooting, the zoom is adjusted at the mobile phone shooting interface, and the zoom multiple is adjusted to 3 or 5 times to ensure that it can obtain a clearer and delicate picture quality and a larger moon. It should be noted that it is best to use the camera's telephoto lens. If it is a digital zoom, the larger the zoom multiple, the worse the image quality.

If there is no special needs, the normal effect can be photographed using the default automatic shutter speed. If you feel that the moon shot is too bright, you can increase the speed of the shutter appropriately. If you have higher needs for imaging quality, you can try to shoot with slow doors. First use a tripod or "octopus" to stabilize the phone, and then extend the shutter speed of the phone. You can try different exposure time according to the specific situation. The shutter time should not be too long, otherwise it will only take the moon into a white light, and even take the shadow of the moon, affecting the shooting effect. If you want to get a larger moon, you can get it after the shooting, or you can use the external lens of the mobile phone to extend the focal length. The effect is equally good.

Shooting a moon alone, the effect of shooting is often difficult to have any characteristics. In order to make the picture more characteristic, you can find some different ground scenes as the foreground, such as street lights, branches, roofs, etc., interacting with the moon in the picture to enhance the fun of the picture. In addition, you can also shoot the moon and ground views, such as urban streets, ancient buildings with lights, etc., and then use mobile phone picture processing software (such as the "dual exposure" function in the "tool" option in Snapseed) Together, you can also get good results.

Although the picture quality of the moon's photos cannot be compared with a professional camera, it is still a good choice in terms of innovation and convenience. Some models also add fun prospects to the mobile phone, which can be synthesized directly with the photos taken, which can be playable.

Zhang Jianfang

This article was published on September 6, 2022, "China Photography" No. 69, 79

Special thanks: Mr. Fan Ziheng, Editor of China Photography News.

Author: Zhang Jianfang, a member of the China News Photography Society/China Health Photography Association/Hebei Photographer Association, is committed to the practice and exploration of news photography and documentary photography in the field of medical and health. Mainstream media such as Edition, Guangming Daily, Science and Technology Daily, Workers' Daily, Health News, and China Family Daily have been selected as Beijing International Photography Week, the 13th China Photography Art Festival "Anti -Epidemine Photography Federation", and the "epidemic" of the China Photographers Association "epidemic". Line report | Sanitary photographer war "Epidemic", "China Photography" magazine "My Hospital My Home" Film Festival, Hebei Youth Photography Art Exhibition and other photography activities. The work is permanently collected by the Beijing Archives.

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