Using backlight, how to shoot emotional portraits and capture the inner beauty of characters?

1. You can observe that Yolanda has obvious reflection points at the tip of her nose and pupil. You must have used a backlight. If you often go to the seaside and other places, you will find that most people who take wedding photos have photographers' assistants with reflective boards, probably very thin PVC boards, nylon boards, foam boards and the like, with reflective tin foil behind them, and you can also fill the light with a flash. From this photo, Yu Xia and Yolanda are separated in the longitudinal direction, so it is estimated that this photo is a backlight and fill light photo of Zhang Fuhe. Flashlights and reflectors are useful in several ways.

2. After the light-filling environment is completed, the camera can use the aperture first. A slightly larger aperture should have a focal length of 50 mm If it is too close, it will produce distortion, and if it is too far, it will have a flat feeling. Because the aperture is the priority, the camera will automatically calculate the shutter according to the light environment after selecting the aperture. Because the subject is a person, the surrounding light environment is bright at this time, so spot metering or center focusing metering can be used to ensure the correct exposure of the face. Using bracketing exposure (that is, one or two times of high exposure, one time of positive exposure and one or two times of low exposure) can take 3-5 photos, and the final optimization is enough.

It takes practice to take the right portrait photos, not overnight. Find a manual camera and take pictures of your parents, classmates and friends.

Look at this case:

Preliminary points:

One: backlight.

Two: partial metering or spot metering, aiming at the face, exposure 1. In order to ensure the accuracy of photometry, a person's head can block sunlight during photometry. After the photometry is completed, lock the exposure, move the camera, and then the sunlight appears.

Three: large aperture

Four: reflector.

Delay integration:

One: color balance. The face is obviously red in the ambient color. Image-optional color-red.

Two: shine at the moment. The curve brightens.

Three: mask. Masks wipe people's faces.

Four: saturation. Reduce saturation.

Five: white gradient.

Finally, add a little about the content of the light compensation board:

It is basically necessary for the reflector to fill the light. It is best to measure the ambient light by photometry, so that the environment can be exposed normally. The sun is slightly overexposed, and the light owed by the face is made up by the reflector.

Later, you can also improve the brightness of the face and control highlights and shadows.

To sum up: manual exposure+reflector+exposure compensation, these three are indispensable.

Let's enjoy some big movies and practice.

Photographer: Not good.