How to be an excellent photographer?

The success of professional photographers

A good photographer should have many conditions. From rich knowledge and insight to keen observation, diligent work and learning attitude, and enthusiasm for others. Photography itself is a visual art where thoughts and emotions intersect. The lens in the photographer's hand is just like the pen in the painter's hand, and it can accept the creative instructions of the master. As for how to stimulate the emotions hidden in the human heart to express, this is the direction that photographers should work hard.

As customers, they come to take photos to create beauty, which is the responsibility of wedding photographers. Most customers are ordinary people. You can't expect them to be perfect. There are no perfect people in the world. But at the same time, there are no ugly people in the world, and even if there are, they can be shaped into a unique image. Customers often say, "I'm not photogenic." In fact, it's not that he is not photogenic, but that he didn't meet a good photographer, which made him lose confidence. When is a person most beautiful? But revealing the truth and essence of human nature is the most beautiful. When everyone comes to this world, his appearance is impossible to choose, but everyone will have their own truest side. According to this truth, photographers should use the cooperation of mind and light, shadow, sound and gas to shape the natural beauty of the subject's true feelings.

First, communication skills

If you want to shoot the natural beauty of human nature, you should know yourself before shooting. Photographers are advised to fill in the "Communication Design Form" before shooting. Remember, let the customer believe that you are his sincere friend. If you can't convince someone about something, that's your weakness, because you haven't found a way to convey wisdom. To communicate perfectly, you need to keep in mind the following three points:

1. Thank them for giving you advice, filling out the communication form and taking photos.

2. Respect their opinions and suggestions and make detailed records.

While agreeing with their views, I hope they can accept your suggestion.

Second, the preparation before shooting

1, first look at the customer's * * * sets of clothes, what sets, and take some photos to conceive how many feelings to take.

2. Design shooting ideas, shooting methods, composition, lighting, infer the shooting process, so as to determine all shooting contents and results.

3, carefully observe the customer's face, figure design shooting style.

Third, shooting guidance.

Many customers are very nervous and uncooperative when taking pictures, and they can't enter the state for a long time. Why?

1, the action is not suitable for customers when shooting. We suggest the photographer pose by himself, so as to capture your feelings.

There are generally two kinds of guests: arrogant and introverted.

Arrogance-status and taste may be higher (mostly at the top). The reason is that they don't trust photographers completely, so they must not be too polite to such guest photographers. First of all, when you first enter the studio, you should be greeted by an assistant. The photographer will be quiet, give him higher momentum, work for the assistant, and let him feel the authority of the photographer. After everything is ready, the photographer should pose with double goodwill and enthusiasm. Before each shoot, make the guests laugh with very humorous language. After a group of shots, continue to talk about encouraging words such as hard work, good performance, excellent play, continuous play and continuous efforts. , sent by the assistant. The photographer will then restore his arrogance, so that customers will feel-this is the real master. It is to increase my trust in you and cooperate more in future shooting.

Restricted-the guest level may be low (mostly low level). The reason is that they are not used to this environment. Such a guest photographer should take the initiative to communicate with him, say some nonsense and relax his nervousness. According to his occupation, talk to them about topics of interest, use related topics to make them laugh when taking pictures, and be more patient. This will make it easier for them to cooperate with you when they get into the state.

Half-life answer time 2008-02-29 16: 10

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Other answers talk about the basic requirements of photography.

Portrait photography is one of the most important fields in photography, and it is also one of the photography fields that can best reflect the artistic realm of photographers. In my humble opinion, the artistic realm of portrait photography can be summarized into four levels: pleasing to the eye, lifelike, publicizing personality and interpreting life.

First, it is pleasing to the eye.

Pleasing to the eye is the basic requirement of ordinary people and photographers for portrait photography. Whether it is business portraits, family photos, news portraits or even portraits involved in any photography field, whether it is the subject, photographer or viewer, as long as there is no special purpose, they all want to see pleasing portraits, and making the audience and the audience physically and mentally happy is one of the most important goals of any art form.

First of all, pleasing to the eye has become the common goal of commercial photographers and customers. With the development of modern photography, many problems that were difficult or impossible to be solved by previous photographers have been solved technically, so it is relatively easy to achieve a pleasing realm. Used for commercial photography. This kind of portrait photography not only needs the photographer's own quality, but also depends on some objective factors, such as: excellent makeup artist, beautiful clothes, exquisite props, high-grade photographic equipment, advanced lighting, advanced equipment studio, advanced photo post-processing system, exquisite mounting and careful editing planning. For the field of portrait photography, the biggest defects are the excessive involvement of non-photographic ontology language and the desalination of photographic ontology language. The so-called photographic ontology language is a unique expression of photographic technology and art, including the use of film, exposure control, photographic lighting and composition management. Non-photographic language mainly refers to non-photographic means of expression that originally played an auxiliary role in photography, such as makeup, costumes, props and so on.

In these portrait photography, the photographic ontology language is generally diluted, and most of the few remaining photographic ontology languages have become a fixed pattern and routine, and even distorted. For example, in terms of light consumption, in order to cater to the tastes of the public, more positive light and soft light are used; In terms of exposure, overexposure is often used to make the skin appear whiter.

But all this is for the customer, and there is nothing wrong with it. Pleasure is to make customers and the general public feel physically and mentally happy. Therefore, this portrait photography itself is an important part of photography art, and it is this pleasing photography that attracts thousands of people to the studio and becomes an important economic pillar for the development of photography art in China, especially amateur photography art.

Since photographic works have the ability to attract the public, it shows that photographic works have the ability to guide the public's aesthetic tendency. This pleasing commercial portrait photography has been popular for ten years, and the aesthetic tendency of the public is also changing quietly.

Moreover, in recent years, with the outstanding contribution of a group of young photographers with great artistic expression to commercial photography, the current portrait photography is showing a booming trend.

Second, realistic.

The appearance of photography makes the problem of "likeness" of portrait reproduction easy, and the development of contemporary portrait photography seems to be out of this development direction. In particular, the current popular business portraits are less and less like themselves, and are farther away from the vivid. The vividness here is, of course, not just a simple "likeness", but a similarity in spirit and form on the basis of pleasing to the eye.

Portrait photography in this field generally has the following main characteristics:

1: Use photography ontology language and non-photography ontology language correctly.

The use of photography ontology language is not simply based on whether it is pleasing to the eye, but mainly depends on whether it can express the expression characteristics of the characters, the lighting is natural and elegant, the exposure is accurate, and the skin color and texture are normal. Cosmetic props should not be too ostentatious and grandstanding. The purpose of makeup is to hide something from time to time, not to set it off. Props are just decorations, not expressions.

2. Capturing subtle expressions and shaping eyes' expressions is the eternal theme of photographers, and it is also the key to whether a portrait photography can be lifelike. In the feminine contemporary portrait photography, it should be said that it is very good at this point. There is a lack in the shaping of eyes. This is mainly due to the dim light used in photography. The high profile created by the soft light on the front makes it difficult to highlight the eyes. Therefore, using light to express the characters' eyes is the key to achieve this state in portrait works.

Third, flying personality.

Personality publicity in portrait photography can be divided into two aspects, one is to publicize the personality of the subject, and the other is to publicize the personality of the photographer. From the photographer's point of view, the purpose of taking portraits is nothing more than to remember, appreciate and show their personality charm. From this perspective, the photographer is helping the subject to show his personality charm. From the photographer's point of view, as the creator of works of art, he should express his photography creativity by means of photography and with the help of the performance ability of models, to reflect his photography style, and even to tell his true understanding of life through photography language.

Portrait photography in this field usually has the following characteristics:

1: the unique language of photography ontology

In the use of photographic language, the use of photographic language in the first realm of portrait photography is generally dull, the use of photographic language in the second realm tends to be natural, and the use of photographic language in the third realm focuses on highlighting. Light is the most unique ontological language of photography.

For example, Mo Xie's "Two Feelings to the Shadow" skillfully uses shadows to create a wonderful illusion, which is unforgettable. Another example is Saint by Zhu Enguang, A Light by Colin Thomas, Pure by Saab Alexandra Sutton, and so on. The beauty of photography noumenon language is vividly reflected.

2. Unique and concise drama plot

For example, in the Shadow of Life filmed by Adler Mousavi, the hero and heroine in the picture tell an intriguing story in the light and shadow effect painstakingly managed by the photographer. It's not a TV series, but it seems to say more than a TV series. Of course, this work is also unique in lighting and composition.

3. Show a unique understanding of the relationship between man and nature.

Pure portrait photography may not include nature, but in this special era of environmental crisis, many photographers aim at nature and the relationship between man and nature. Or enthusiastic eulogy, or sharp criticism. Carl Cowley's Man and the Sun and Yi's Man and the Sun both express the desire to integrate man and nature. 4. Strong visual impact

Whether it is clever lighting, clever composition, or innovative and bold lens application, its purpose is to produce strong visual effects.

Publicizing the subject's personality is to make people look unique and dramatic like photographs. The publicity of the photographer's personality should show his understanding of photography, the subject, portrait photography and even life through his own personalized photography ontology language, so in a sense, photography is the photographer's silent confession.

Fourth, the interpretation of life.

Great portrait photography is great because it depicts the souls of characters, because it eulogizes the greatness of life, because it records the spiritual outlook of an era, and because it records the joys and sorrows of human society.

From the individual point of view, great portrait photography profoundly records the inner world of the characters, whether sad or happy, or thinking or shouting. It is precisely because it presents the inner world of the characters that such photographic works give people a spiritual shock. At the same time eulogize the preciousness and greatness of life. In the face of such works, every audience will be proud of having life.

From the overall situation of human society, great portrait photography records the mental outlook of people in an era and the great joys and sorrows of human society. The significance of great portrait photography has completely surpassed the significance of ordinary portraits. It is a symbol of society, times and history. In this sense, the significance of portrait photography is far more than the publicity of the photographer's memory and personality.