Five ideas for shooting portraits at will.

We all know the logic of composition guide lines, but in this case, don't look for actual lines or frames, but try to find areas in your scene that can be used as the main body of frames. This may mean finding an arch, a column, or anything with good structure, which can help you build a more interesting picture composition.

Anterior and posterior depth

The most striking works usually have interesting prospects or backgrounds, or both! Look carefully in your environment and find places where you can compress the background or use the foreground as part of the picture.

It is also a scene of bushes, which can cover the whole picture in depth. Take a part of the bush as the foreground, then put the characters in the center of the picture, or even cover it with the foreground a little, so that you can still see the bush in the background. By filling the frame with shrubs, we can't see anything messy in the background, which makes the picture more pure.

Natural reflex

If it has just rained, a small puddle on the ground can produce a unique effect. We bent down and tried to fill the whole puddle with pictures. In this scene, we should choose a wider focal length, which will make the picture more impactful.

Find an interesting background

The biggest advantage of using a large aperture fixed-focus lens is that it can make the background pure and make the background look orderly and seamless. This kind of blurring will bring surprises that cannot be observed by the naked eye.

Use your mobile phone screen to get more reflections.

In addition to those inherent reflections, we all have a simple tool at hand that allows us to create reflections anywhere, and that is our mobile phone. Simply using the reflection of the mobile phone under the black screen and adjusting the appropriate distance, you can get the same effect as specular reflection.

The above is Bian Xiao's sharing about creative hand-made portraits. You can apply these creative principles and composition theory to any place you shoot, which may bring better results. Try it when you have time!