What is the composition method of portrait photography?

There are mainly the following aspects:

First, don't cut the composition.

When shooting portraits, try not to cut your body parts, such as your hands, feet and head. This kind of shooting will make people uncomfortable, so unless it is especially necessary to take an open portrait composition, you must take a complete picture of the hands, feet and first-class body parts of the character.

As shown in the picture, the fingers, buttocks and head of the character are incomplete and have a sense of loss.

Second, portrait photography composition should avoid joints.

In the scene of portrait composition, there are general full-length portraits, septums, busts, close-ups and so on. When composing a composition, you should avoid the joints of the human body, that is to say, you can't split the picture at the joints of the characters, and split the composition at the joints, which will make you feel disabled.

As shown in the figure, the red line in the figure is the joint part that is forbidden to be divided in the composition, and the green line is the part that can be divided:

Third, the horizontal line can't cut the neck.

The horizontal line neck cutting of portrait photography composition refers to the horizontal line and horizon passing through the head and neck of the character, which is a very common mistake in portrait photography composition, commonly known as composition neck cutting.

As shown in the figure, seaside portraits like this often find such people as taboos for photographic composition:

Fourth, don't have vertical lines on your head.

Portrait photography composition, generally characters don't have horizontal lines on their heads, and there can't be vertical lines on their heads when composing, otherwise the effect of characters' heads with long horns will be taken, which is very uncomfortable and ugly, as shown in the figure:

Fifth, the wide-angle lens is distorted.

Because of the perspective distortion effect of wide-angle lens, when shooting portraits with wide-angle lens, we should try to arrange the characters in the middle of the picture, so that the characters will not be obviously distorted, otherwise the characters will be deformed very ugly.

As shown in the figure, the characters on the edge are obviously deformed:

Sixth, the positioning of characters is blank.

Portrait photography composition should be left blank in the direction of the character's orientation and movement trend, otherwise it will appear dull and unnatural.

As shown in the picture, the composition of the characters is centered, and the white space behind is too large. It would be better if there were more blanks in the direction of the diagram:

Seven, portrait composition background messy.

When shooting a portrait, the composition background is not well chosen, or the blurring degree is not enough, which leads to the messy portrait background. At this time, you can consider changing the shooting angle to compose the picture, or using a stronger blur effect to simplify the background.

Eight, the protagonist is not prominent.

In the process of portrait photography composition, the subject of the character is not prominent, and there are too many picture elements. We should learn to simplify the picture properly and highlight the person being photographed.

Nine, the pose of the character model is incorrect.

In portrait shooting, the pose error of the model is also a common composition taboo, and there are many such pose errors. Here, a common typical problem is that the model's elbow is facing the camera, which is not only unsightly, but also uncomfortable and unnatural.