General structure of portrait photography

Lead: This article is taken from the Complete Works of Self-taught Fashion Portrait Photography, which is easy to understand and operate. Let's look at some problems of portrait composition.

Picture composition can be divided into three basic types: diagonal composition with rhythm and action, S-shaped composition with fluidity, and blank composition with imagination. The basic composition method can help you gain a summary of photography knowledge, and let the photographer choose different composition methods more skillfully through his unique insight in the process of shooting portraits, so as to shoot more novel photos of people.

1. Match foreground and background

Foreground and background play a very important role in the picture respectively. Foreground can increase the sense of distance and depth of the picture, thus better highlighting the three-dimensional effect of the characters in the picture. The background can set off the characters, create an atmosphere and deepen the theme. When choosing foreground and background, you need to pay attention to the collocation of pictures, and you must arrange pictures around the same theme.

With a small number of flowers as the foreground, the layering of the picture is enhanced; At the same time, the distant forest as the background better highlights the fresh and natural picture theme.

Camera: Nikon D70s◎ metering mode: center key average metering ◎ aperture: F2.0◎ exposure time: 1/250 seconds.

Focal length: 50 mm ◎ ISO: 200 ◎ White balance: Flash ◎ Photographer: Jianghu prawns usually, the choice of foreground and background belongs to the same set, which is closer to the theme. Foreground can not only increase the distance level of the picture, but also render the picture like the background, and even the rendering effect is more prominent than the background. When shooting with the telephoto end of the lens, it is easy to blur the foreground into a hazy color block. Although the foreground can't identify the details at this time, it can make the picture have a fantastic aesthetic feeling. This effect is often used to express a kind of unattainable beauty of girls.

The girl's dress is elegant and beautiful, and the picture is in blue-green environment. With the help of the fresh feeling brought by green, the pure beauty of girls is better set off from the side.

Camera: Nikon D700 ◎ metering mode: spot metering ◎ aperture: F2.0 ◎ exposure time: 1/60s.

Focal length: 85mm ◎ ISO: 400 ◎ White balance: tungsten lamp ◎ Photographer: Jianghu prawns.

Tips:

When you want to ensure the clarity of the subject and blur the foreground into blocks, you'd better keep a certain distance from the subject, otherwise you can't completely blur it.

2. With the help of natural framework

In the process of portrait shooting, you can also make use of some inherent frames to form a frame composition, which gives people an interesting and fresh feeling. The frame composition formed in the foreground can increase the sense of space and interest of the picture. There are two main forms of framework: clear and fuzzy. The clear frame gives people a simple and bright visual feeling; Fuzzy frames give people a soft and warm visual feeling, which is mostly used to show feminine women.

The girl relies on a semicircle high-rise building, with the help of this building as the foreground of the picture, which can not only increase the creative sense of the picture, but also show the spatial level of the picture. The photographer's use of backhand angle better highlights the beauty of women's aloof personality.

In portrait photography, you can also use the contrast between light and dark to create a sense of boundary. Photographers can choose tunnels or doorways as the shooting background. This natural frame composition can make the picture fresh. Then blur the background with a large aperture, which is more helpful to show the femininity of women.

The tunnel is chosen as the background of the picture, and the girl stands at the bright door. The dark tunnel just forms a frame, which makes the contrast between light and shade of the picture very strong.

In addition, the photographer chose a large aperture to blur the background, which set off the softness of the picture style.

Camera: Nikon D70s ◎ metering mode: center key average metering ◎ aperture: F2.0◎ exposure time: 1/250 seconds.

Focal length: 50 mm ◎ ISO: 200 ◎ White balance: flash ◎ Photographer: Jianghu prawn.

Tips:

When shooting in an environment with strong contrast between light and dark, if the exposure of the picture cannot be accurately judged, the spot metering mode can be used to measure the face of the person to ensure the accurate exposure of the subject.

3. Close-up shot

Main features In portrait shooting, close-up is also a common composition technique. By using close-ups, a certain part of a character can be portrayed in more detail, which is more likely to attract the attention of viewers, and it is also a detailed description of beauty. Close-ups can depict the facial features and emotions of characters in great detail, and viewers can read rich contents from the eyes of characters, making the picture more communicative. In the process of shooting, the photographer needs to know the appearance and personality characteristics of the characters, and different characters need to portray different emphases.

It shows the sexiness and beauty of the girl lying on her side, and takes the girl's right hand as the foreground, which increases the spatial level of the picture and narrows the distance between the viewer and the characters.

The photographer focused on the girl's eyes with a close-up technique, thus drawing the girl's moving at the moment. And the simple environmental background makes the close-up effect more successful.

Camera: Nikon D70s◎ metering mode: center key average metering ◎ aperture: F2.0 ◎ exposure time: 1/250 seconds.

Focal length: 50 mm ◎ ISO: 200 ◎ White balance: flash ◎ Photographer: Jianghu prawn.

When shooting with close-up technique, we can not only show the facial features of the characters, but also show some other parts of the characters. Such close-ups are more creative and can leave more room for imagination. Pay attention to the details of the picture when shooting, perhaps the deviation of one detail will affect the aesthetic feeling of the whole picture. Therefore, we should pay attention to keeping the characters and costumes clean, and every tiny gesture and action will be very important.

The photographer carefully portrayed the girl's shoulders through close-ups, showing the beautiful lines and white and smooth skin of the girl's shoulders.

The girl bowed her head and kissed her hand, adding a sweetness to the close-up of the picture.

Camera: Nikon D70s◎ metering mode: center key average metering ◎ aperture: F2.0◎ exposure time: 1/250 seconds.

Focal length: 50 mm ◎ ISO: 200 ◎ White balance: flash ◎ Photographer: Jianghu prawn.

Tips:

In the close-up of characters' shoulders, we can design a shape for the characters, and try not to flatten the shoulders of the characters. The lines of women's shoulders are more helpful to enhance the aesthetic feeling of the picture.

4. The bust is included in the costume effect.

The shooting of bust can also be understood as the composition of portrait in middle or close range. This kind of shooting is still based on people, supplemented by depicting the environment, and can also show more details of people, such as clothing, figure, facial features and so on. When composing a bust, we usually don't emphasize the legs of the characters. We can choose distinctive costumes to express them and use them to set off the different atmosphere of the picture.

Taking the upper body of the character as the main body of the picture, although the background appears dim, by including the girl's gorgeous red scarf and thin sweater,

The festive atmosphere of the picture can be enhanced, giving people a kind of warmth.

Camera: Nikon D70s ◎ metering mode: center key average metering ◎ aperture: F2.0 ◎ exposure time: 1/250 seconds.

Focal length: 50 mm ◎ ISO: 200 ◎ White balance: flash ◎ Photographer: Li Jiong.

5. Full-length portraits show complete characters.

Full-length portraits are usually used to show the figure of a person, especially when the subject is wearing shorts or short skirts. A full-length portrait can show the graceful leg shape of a character. Although full-body composition is difficult to depict the five senses of characters and is not good at expressing the emotions of characters, it pays more attention to the overall effect. So when taking a full-length portrait, we should pay attention to the matching of clothing and makeup. A good full-length portrait can give people a more lasting aesthetic feeling.

The graceful figure and slender thighs of girls are perfectly presented. When a girl stands, she bends her joints.

Get a relaxed and natural posture, combined with makeup to highlight the unique charm of women.

Tips:

When shooting a full-length portrait, we must pay attention to adjusting the shooting posture of the subject, so that the legs, hands and face of the character can be in harmony, thus creating a more tasteful portrait picture.

When shooting a full-length portrait, it is not only limited to the standing posture, but also the subject can pose various postures according to the overall style of the picture. In photography, full-length portraits are very suitable for expressing different picture styles, and the use of beautiful body lines for composition can increase the charm of characters. Only by ensuring the coordination and unity of all parts, the emotion to be conveyed in the picture will be stronger.

Use full-length portraits to show the complete sitting position of the characters. In order to coordinate the girl with the main content of the picture, more details should be paid attention to when shooting the full-length portrait of the girl.

At this time, the girl's pose is particularly important, and every detail should conform to the theme, leaving no traces of affectation.

In addition, girls' hairstyles, makeup and costumes also need more comprehensive arrangements.

Camera: Nikon D70s ◎ metering mode: center key average metering ◎ aperture: F2.0 ◎ exposure time: 1/250 seconds.

Focal length: 50mm ◎ ISO:200 ◎ White balance: flash ◎ Photographer: Yin Da.