The Yuyuan Lantern Festival is stunningly beautiful, a real-life version of 'Big Fish & Begonia' photography guide
You can always trust the Chinese-style romance of Yuyuan‼️
How to describe how beautiful this year's Yuyuan Lantern Festival is? Probably just a casual shot and post on your Moments could get tons of likes! Although the lantern festival is not fully set up yet, just this 'Fish and Dragon Dance in One Night' themed street is shocking enough! I think the design is clever in that it 'looks like a school of fish up close, but like a dragon head from afar'. Chinese aesthetics are too amazing! I really can't help but take a photo in advance.
📷Photography tips:
☑️A proper wide angle gives a sense of extension, the standard focal length of the phone can take it, I mostly used 35 1.4 to shoot.
☑️Whether shooting with a phone or a camera, you can bring a portable fill light, which is useful when shooting portraits.
☑️There are many lantern-viewing tourists, so it's difficult to take clean street shots; for portrait shooting, choose a low shooting position, blur the passers-by appropriately, actually the feeling of a crowd is more festive.
☑️You can prepare some props, such as lanterns, candied haws, which are very festive. Prepare in advance or buy at Yuyuan on site.
☑️Hanfu really matches Yuyuan💯, it feels like the prosperous Tang Dynasty; for ordinary tourists, keep it simple, actually the new Chinese style is also a good choice, like I chose the popular 'Western-styled Miss' look this year.
☑️The second floor of Yuyuan Mall is a popular shooting spot, with a long focus of 200 or more you can shoot the distant 'Big Fish & Begonia' (I didn't bring it so I didn't shoot😅). But the entrance of Piye Coffee is also good for shooting, there are many girls taking portraits and you need to queue up~😅
The main lantern of the Nine-Turn Bridge is still being set up, it's also stunning to see during the day! I heard that it will officially light up after January 20th.
💡Lighting time: 17:30-22:00
📅Yuyuan Lantern Festival ticket sales dates (free at other times)
February 10-16, 2024 10:00-22:00
February 17-21, 2024 14:00-22:00
February 22-25, 2024 10:00-22:00
Adults 80 yuan/person, children 50 yuan/person
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