How to take a good portrait on a cloudy day?

Cloudy days give people a dull feeling. You may think that taking portraits on cloudy days is definitely not as good as taking photos on sunny days. Actually, it's not like this. You can also take a portrait photo that satisfies you in a cloudy world.

Clouds in the sky make the cloudy light soft and directionless. At this time, the contrast of the photos taken is small, the boundary between light and dark is blurred, and the shadow is not obvious. At this time, you can shoot some subjects that need to show clear details and rich levels. This kind of light is also very effective in downloading and shooting portraits, which can show some picture feelings and atmosphere that cannot be produced in sunny days.

The sunlight coming through the thin clouds is like a huge diffuse soft mirror, which can make the shadow part of the photo play a gradual role. Portrait photos taken on cloudy days can restore the skin color of people's faces well, and because the shadows are not obvious, they can better express the texture of people's skin.

It is more difficult to master portraits on cloudy days than on sunny days, so it is very important to master some shooting skills of portraits on cloudy days. Here we should master the skills of exposure, white balance setting and color application.

The light is dark on cloudy days, so it is generally necessary to use a large aperture and a low shutter speed when taking pictures. Large aperture can blur the scenery outside the main body, thus creating an artistic effect of highlighting the main body and combining reality with reality. Spot metering is selected as metering mode to measure the face of the subject, which can ensure the accurate exposure of the subject.

The light in a cloudy world is dark. If the shutter value measured by photometry does not reach the "safe shutter", the hand-held shooting picture will not be clear. At this time, you can consider using a tripod to maintain the stability of shooting, or you can use a higher ISO value to obtain a higher shutter speed, and at the same time you can increase the exposure compensation of the third gear.

Tips: A safe shutter means that the shutter speed must be equal to or higher than the reciprocal of the focal length of the lens. For example, if you take a portrait with a focal length of 100MM, then the shutter must be equal to or higher than1100 seconds, so as to ensure that the picture is clear and unambiguous.

In order to achieve your own shooting effect or shooting intention, if the aperture, shutter and ISO value can't be changed after adjustment, if the exposure is still insufficient, you need to fill the light with a flash, so that the characters will become bright immediately and the background changes in the distance are not obvious.

On cloudy days, it will give us a feeling of gray or dim color. If you want to take a portrait photo that looks bright, you need to work hard on background selection and color matching. In addition, when shooting on cloudy days, we often encounter the phenomenon of blurred photos, which is mainly caused by inaccurate focus or jitter. When shooting with a large aperture, the depth of field is very shallow. If the focus is not selected correctly, the focus will fall outside the subject, resulting in the subject being unclear. When shooting portraits, the eyes are often the focus, which of course needs to be based on the needs of the theme.