I would like to ask how to take good-looking pictures on Taobao!

1. Prepare a good camera

Pixels are not the key to determining the clarity of the picture. If you want the picture to be clear and bright, you must check the size of the original photosensitive element of the camera. A better card camera can beat a mobile phone instantly. It is recommended that everyone use a camera, and it must be a SLR. A card camera will suffice.

2. Prepare the photography environment

Hard conditions: good light and beautiful environment.

Most of the time the light around us is insufficient. At this time, in addition to increasing the exposure of the camera, we can also find ways to use the light source. Generally, we can use soft lights or special photography shed.

3. About the choice of soft box

If the product you want to shoot is very small, you don’t need a studio at this time, just use a soft box. Take the shot.

4. Real-person photography of clothing products

Some clothing products must be shot by real people. Try not to steal other people's pictures. Generally, Taobao will punish the store if it finds that the pictures have been stolen.

5. Master the shooting skills

On the premise of paying attention to the above steps, it is time to study the shooting skills. Generally, the photos we take under strong light conditions are not ugly. If you are more interested in good-looking photos, you can go to professional forums to learn more, or read the camera manual.

6. Appropriate post-processing

Tips for photographing Taobao babies—after photographing the baby, you must know how to post-process. We focus on bright and vivid post-processing. But be careful to keep the original color as much as possible. Especially for clothes, fabrics and other products, if you change the color of the product in order to pursue the beauty of the picture, it may cause dissatisfaction from buyers and give negative reviews.

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Photography techniques

1. Use a long focal length lens as the main shooting lens (about 250mm lens for a 120-type camera, or about 250mm for a 135-type camera) 135mm or so lens), choose its short depth of field function.

2. According to the principle of portrait formula composition, directly frame the composition of close-up, half-body, three-quarter body or full body, about 5-8 steps away from the subject, and you can easily take the picture.

3. When exposing, you need to open 1 to 2 more stops of aperture compensation according to the characteristics of portrait photography to make the face texture brighter. The soft and bright light on the person's face is the focus of taking this type of photo.

4. In order to create bright eyes, it is best to place a reflective board or white board in front of the portrait so that the eyes can reflect bright light points.

5. When printing, it is best to follow the post-processing techniques and add soft focus processing. After comprehensively softening the skin texture, you can achieve a soft and beautiful effect on the entire photo.

6. Change the style or props of the subject characters more frequently. Otherwise, if you take a lot of photos, the visual focus will not change, and the shortcomings of similar composition, depth of field, and shooting techniques will be exposed.

7. Design the style of the theme portrait, choose the scene suitable for the overall performance, and do the preliminary theme and scene design work.

8. You should cultivate the ability of aesthetic composition in daily life, and formulate an overall composition plan between the subject portrait and the scene when shooting. Do not fall into the cliché of formulaic composition of portraits and shoot close-ups. photo.

9. Analyze and use the on-site lighting situation, use addition and subtraction methods to blend into the portrait theme to be photographed, and control the outstanding performance of lighting in the scene environment without falling into the common problem of flat lighting in general commemorative photos. .

10. Control the length of the depth of field to create a moving and high-level depth of field expression. Don’t fall into the messy pattern of ordinary life photos.

11. Choose the most appropriate photo opportunity to press the shutter, capture the vividness of the portrait and the artistic sense of the scene, and shoot a perfect portrait with a scene.

12. When taking this type of photo, the most important thing is the choice of film. As long as you use black and white film, you can print out the tone of this type of photo.

13. During the shooting process, you should pay attention to the color of the background and props, preferably gray, because too black or too white background, props or costumes will cause the photo to appear completely black when it is printed. Or a completely white reaction, which is common sense when taking black and white photos. Only when the gray tone is appropriate, the single tone overprinted by color printing can have rich gradation expression.

14. When taking black and white photos, you can get beautiful tones by controlling the exposure correctly. It cannot be compared to the color negative film shooting method commonly used for portraits, which often uses two or more stops of exposure compensation. Only correct exposure can avoid the loss of saturated tones.

15. There is another type of film produced by ILFORD manufacturer on the market, which can be printed directly in color without going through the manual development process of black and white liquid. The shooting effect is the same, and it is a more convenient film.

16. The negatives that have been photographed and developed can be developed into pure black and white photos through the black and white development process. Or through the color printing process, a single-tone photo can be developed.

Reference material: Baidu Encyclopedia-Photography Skills