What are the simple methods of portrait photography?

1, to prevent the sun from taking pictures overhead.

When taking pictures outdoors, photographers usually avoid taking pictures at noon, because the sun is just above. Under the strong light, fierce shadows will appear under the eyes, nose and chin of the model, and together, white spots will be exposed on the forehead and cheeks. So if you take pictures at noon, you can take pictures in the shadow and set the white balance of the camera. When taking pictures in the shade, you can use the light from the leaves to form a backlight effect, and use the flash to fill the light for the model. This is an excellent way to take pictures.

2, the use of reflector

Reflecting plate is a photographic product often used by portrait photographers. It provides great help for photographers to weaken or eliminate this aspect. There are many kinds of reflectors in shopping malls now, but there are usually four colors, white, silver, gold and black. The reflection function of the white reflector is not very strong, but it is soft and natural. The silver reflector has a strong reflection effect. If it is simply reflected into the eyes of the subject, a big and bright eye light will appear. Golden reflector uses a golden reflector to fill the light in the sun. Like a silver reflector, it reflects light like a lubricated mirror, but contrary to a cold-tuned silver reflector, it emits warmer light. Gold reflector is a common main light. The function of black reflector is to absorb light. In general, the bigger the reflector, the better the effect and the more natural and even the light.

3. Try not to use the built-in flash.

The built-in flash, like sunlight, is a point light source. The light it emits is hard and the direction is on the same axis as the lens. It is very simple to form bright spots and red eyes on the model's face. If the model is close to the set, it will leave a heavy shadow on the set. Relatively speaking, external flash is very popular with photographers. Photographers usually use flashers to control the direction of flashers more effectively and prevent red eyes. If you want to compare the soft light, you can add a soft light mask on the flash, or you can rotate the flash upwards and polish the model with reflected light.

Step 4 take pictures with a reasonable lens

As we all know, when taking a picture with a wide-angle lens, the picture will be deformed, but when taking a portrait, the deformation of the character is a very terrible thing. So in general, don't take pictures with a lens smaller than 35mm. When taking pictures of portraits in large scenes, 50mm is basically not a problem, but when taking close-ups, the focal length of 50mm will be deformed. It is recommended to take photos with a longer focal length, such as 85mm, which is the most commonly used focal length. Of course, if APS frame is used, it can be converted according to the equivalent of 1.5 times.