How to use natural light to shoot portraits?

Shoot portraits in pure natural light.

Pure natural light refers to the light effect of direct lighting, scattered lighting or both through doors and windows in indoor environment.

Direct lighting has a strong light and shadow effect.

The furniture in the indoor space is darker in color. The place near the French window in the picture is probably 1. The direct light source is transmitted to the beauty's face, which has a strong light and shade effect. Because the character's face is close to the glass window, the light intensity of the character's face is very strong. The brightness of a person's back and body is the brightness of indoor ambient light, which is darker than direct sunlight and forms a good light-dark ratio with his face. When shooting, the foreground structure is used to record the projection of characters on the glass, which makes the picture more vivid.

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Figure 2, left, Figure 7, the composition of the head portrait, the indoor space is slightly dark, the angle of the person's back to the camera, the direct sunlight, the sunshine outside the window is very strong, the blue sky and the warm tone of the person's back form the contrast color of the picture, and the indoor space perspective under natural light conditions is very beautiful. Fig. 2 is a full-body composition on the right. The curtains are lowered to block the light from the window. Through the creation of the foreground of the curtain, the curve of the profile back of the character and the angle of the face of the character, the theme of the character is very prominent. The above three photos are all three different feelings taken in the same scene, and they are all composed of pure natural light outside the window and ambient light at the scene, without any auxiliary light source.

Use natural light to shoot different tones.

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Figure 3 Silhouette effect of natural light shooting, using a bright surface to fix the light, the outline lines of the characters jump out in the bright place of the window, and contrast the dark parts of the characters with the brightness of direct sunlight in the background environment.

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Figure 4: Using the natural light of the window to shape the characters, the face has a strong three-dimensional sense, a large light ratio and a strong sense of spatial perspective, which highlights the formal beauty of the characters.

Control the natural light in the window with hue

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Figure 5 Figure 6 Indoor window photography is also to seek a kind of light and shadow, the artistic conception depends on light, depict the outline and lines of characters, and properly handle the tone of the picture. These photos do not have any auxiliary lighting, so the contrast is relatively large and the light effect is obvious.

At five o'clock, the sun shines softly on the model from the window, which makes people feel a kind of warmth and association. . . . . The whole picture is warm and oily with a color temperature of 8000K K.

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Figure 7 uses color temperature to control the color tone of the picture, and shoots with pure natural direct light, and the light and shadow effect is obvious. Take a high-altitude shot, enjoy the leisure and relaxation state of the sunshine, and emphasize the artistic conception.

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Fig. 8 Pure natural light at the window changes the color temperature k value. The scene color temperature is 5200K, and the camera setting is 2500K, which is lower than the scene color temperature, and the photo is cold.

To sum up, pure natural light shooting is more about using different light quality and color temperature to shoot different shades and tones and feel different emotions of characters.