Can you take a good-looking portrait with a wide-angle lens? How to construct?

There is no doubt that a wide-angle lens can shoot beautiful people. Let's look at several groups of wide-angle portraits first.

Example 1

Example 2

Let's first look at the basic characteristics of wide-angle lens. The lens has a large viewing angle and a wide field of vision. The depth of field is long, which can show a fairly clear range; It can emphasize the perspective effect of the picture, be good at exaggerating the foreground and express the sense of distance of the scene, which is conducive to enhancing the appeal of the picture. But for portraits, the wide-angle lens is easy to distort the shape of the characters because of its "perspective" characteristics.

But if you change your mind and use composition, it will also have unexpected effects.

1, low-angle shooting

Low-angle shooting is also overhead shooting. At this time, the wide-angle lens will show the background well and the tension of the picture better. When shooting at a low angle, the legs at close range will occupy a relatively large proportion of the picture, while the face at a distance will become smaller, which is the perspective of near big and far small. Visually, you can lengthen your body shape. In order to avoid distortion, when shooting portraits, you should not be close to 0.6 meters, otherwise facial deformation will occur.

Low angle shooting

It should be noted that the closer to the edge of the picture, the more serious the distortion. Try to avoid putting people on the edge of the picture when shooting.

2. Clever use of the tension of the thread

Whether it is the projection of the ground or the outline lines of buildings, as long as they are close to shooting, they will have a very strong sense of perspective under the wide-angle lens. Through the guidance of these lines, we can better express the subject and add a great sense of space to the picture.

The lines with perspective effect have more tension, which focuses the viewer's attention on the main body of the character.

Step 3 highlight the prospects

Like the previous line, the distortion under the wide-angle lens will make the picture have a strong visual impact, and use the foreground to block the composition and highlight the visual impact of the foreground. Such as trees, flowers, water, stones and all kinds of strange plants can be used as the foreground, and the texture and shape are mainly considered when choosing the foreground.

Use foreground to block the composition and highlight the visual impact of the foreground.

When the foreground occupies a large proportion, arranging the subject in the middle is beneficial to the focus center.

This way of emphasizing the subject is different from the blur of large aperture. While emphasizing the subject, it still maintains the expressive force of the surrounding environmental elements, instead of turning them into fuzzy color blocks.

It should be noted that wide-angle contains a lot of content, but what can't be seen needs to be filled with pictures, appropriately left blank, and combined with the body movements of the model. Although there are not many characters in the picture, as long as the composition is reasonable, it can become the visual focus and is also very expressive.

Appropriate blank space in the picture adds ethereal inspiration to the picture and adds the literary scholar temperament of the characters.

Finally, I have to say that the forced low-speed shutter in low-light environment (sometimes turning on the flash to fill the subject with light will lose the real atmosphere, and the feeling of coming out will not match the feeling of the scene) directly affects the clarity of imaging, which is a headache. If you improve ISO, you have to sacrifice image quality. In addition to the large aperture lens can alleviate this dilemma, wide-angle lens can provide a safe shutter and reduce the chance of jitter.

Weak light is a good helper.

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