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英文原文 – PopPhoto 2007年11月
译文/Toohearts
A Tips & Tricks Special! Pros, readers, and Pop Photo editors share their secrets for taking your photography beyond the ordinary.
By PopPhoto Staff – November 2007
1、到高处去
专业婚礼摄影师 Matt Adcock (www.flashflavor.com) 的表现常常超乎客户的要求，比如说，他为舞会现场拍摄俯视全景，方法是用杆子把相机放到高处，再用遥控拍摄。他运用这种方法时，使相机内闪造成天花板跳光，然后让助手用外闪加红色凝胶滤片照射舞池。最终效果是：画面中央人像布光良好，人物头顶晕染着梦幻般红色的光影。（见图片）
1) Above It All.
Pro wedding photographer Matt Adcock (www.flashflavor.com) goes well beyond the usual reception shots. For instance, he gets a bird’s-eye view of the dance floor by mounting his camera on a long painter’s pole and firing it with a remote trigger. While Adcock wields the pole and makes sure that his on-camera flash is bouncing off the ceiling, an assistant aims a remote flash covered in a red gel at the dance floor. The result: an amazing overhead shot with rich reds surrounding the well-lit couple in the center of the photo.
2、用闪光灯
自动对焦系统配合闪光灯可以在弱光环境下拾焦拍摄。为了更快速的曝光，可以转换到手动模式尽可能准确的并预先对焦，然后光圈开至f/8或f/11，所以景深可以覆盖你全部的目标。
2) Shoot in a Flash.
It can take forever for an AF system to find focus with flash photography in low light. To get the shot quicker, switch to manual focus and prefocus as best you can. Then set the aperture to f/8 or f/11 so that the depth of field covers your estimate.
3、准备填充闪光
当户外拍摄时，如果你习惯于使用附带负补偿的填充闪光，那就按照一个默认值去设置 — 不要等到拍摄时在为闪光灯发狂。很多Pop Photo的编辑都把闪曝光设置成 -1 EV，而不需要在意使用怎样的相机。
3) Ready to Fill.
When shooting outdoors, if you consistently use fill flash with reduced flash output, set it as your default — don’t wait until you’re shooting to fiddle with the controls. Many of the Pop Photo editors set the flash exposure comp control to –1 EV on every DSLR they use.
4、怎样的闪光？
大场面的户外摄影怎么能容忍掩盖在阴影中的重要细节？ www.strobist.com 给出了有趣的回答。首先只用少量的闪光照亮暗部，以此填充曝光来实现前后景曝光平衡。闪光的修正工作则可以在后期制作中完成。
户外摄影或者是风光摄影时，清晨时拍摄建筑房屋的最好时机，当太阳并不很高的时候。问题在于，在房屋正面并不向阳时，你可以运用多个无线引闪的离机闪灯来填充曝光，从而使房屋的暗面与明亮的天空趋向于平衡。之后，通过软件校正，将不会看出闪灯的痕迹。
4) Flash? What Flash?
Got a large outdoor scene with some important parts in shadow? www.strobist.com offers an interesting technique. It involves placing small flashes in the darker areas of the scene to fill out the exposure or to balance foreground and background exposure. You then retouch the flashes out in postproduction.
Say you’re shooting the exterior of a house and its landscaping. Often, the best time to photograph buildings is in the early morning, when the sun is low in the sky. But this can lead to problems with exposure if the front of the house faces away from the sun. Placing portable strobes in the scene and triggering them wirelessly can fill out the exposure, letting you balance the dark face with the bright sky. After a few minutes with image-editing software, all you see are the results, not the flashes.
5、挑选最锐利的文件
如果你对同一景物拍摄了一组图片，想从中挑出最锐利的一张，那么你不必再软件中逐一打开查看，只要看文件大小就好。文件越大，图片越锐利，因为更多的细节需要更多的储存空间。
5) Get More Byte.
If you’ve shot a number of frames of the same scene or the same subject, and want to choose the sharpest images, you don’t have to look at them all in an image editor. Check the file size of the photos — the bigger the file, the sharper the shot. More detail requires more bytes.
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