How to use the light source to shoot beautiful portraits?

Portrait photography has a unique position in modern society. There are more and more people studying photography, and there are many people who like photography. Photography is an artistic creation. If you want to shoot good photography, you must master professional photography skills. Now briefly talk about the skills of indoor photography.

Indoor photography is based on the mastery of skills and basic skills, which can directly show the photographer's level. When shooting indoor photography, the arrangement of figure posture, the arrangement and selection of props and the treatment of background all play a decisive role in the final effect of photography. Photography itself is a way of painting with light. In indoor photography, the use of light mainly includes the following aspects:

Main lighting

The main light is the main light of the photographer's choice of light. Usually, the main light is emitted by a soft light box. The light emitted by the soft box should be symmetrical. Soft and easy for photographers to control.

Auxiliary light lamp

Supplementary light is also called auxiliary light, and its main function is to supplement the light on the shadow and make the shadow lighter. The choice of auxiliary light can use the same soft box as the main light, and then the contrast with the main light is determined by the distance and output. The optimal light ratio between the auxiliary light source and the main light source is not fixed, and photographers need to find it through repeated experiments.

Background light source

Generally speaking, there is a distance between the characters and the background. As the distance increases, the light source will become weaker and weaker. After that, some background light sources are needed to supplement the picture, and the characters will adjust the background repeatedly until they find the best effect.

Pay attention to the embodiment of the environment

Different environments directly affect the final color matching of pictures. Early autumn is neither too hot nor too cold, which is very suitable for outdoor photography. How to highlight the feeling of autumn? When shooting, pay attention to the use of grassland, Woods, roads, farmland and other scenes to reflect seasonal changes.

Using the characteristics of the season and combining the changes of light and shadow to express the characters, such photos have a sense of substitution. The choice of scene is very important.