How to shoot rich ancient portraits?

I believe that many beginners often have no concept when they first come into contact with photography, and they don't know how to enrich their photos. The final photo feels monotonous as a whole. It's been a while since I started shooting ancient portraits, and I have summarized some practical tips, hoping to help everyone.

Different views

Different shooting angles can make the audience know more about people and the environment, and at the same time, they can avoid some environmental flaws and flaws that they don't want to express.

Elevation photography can purify the environment and background, which is beneficial to highlight the main body.

Depression angle can enhance the line perspective of plane scenery. Scenes whose inclination angle is close to the lens decrease, while those in the distance increase, thus showing the field of vision and increasing the spatial depth. At the same time, the perspective of depression can also render emotions and create a depressed atmosphere.

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People's psychological activities and ideological trends can be seen from the eyes, and more emotions can be conveyed through the eyes.

Avoid expressions

On the contrary, when shooting, avoid the expression of the characters and use some actions, props, environmental characteristics and so on. Or show the body parts, shoot pictures related to the characters, create a picture atmosphere, indirectly express the emotions and themes of the characters, and leave the audience with room for imagination.

Black and white effect

Color can convey emotions, and after the photo is converted to black and white, the feeling will change before and after the change. Proper use of black and white techniques in a group of photos is helpful to express the emotions and themes of characters.

Blank space

Leave more blank parts for the picture, such as a single-tone background, which can be clean sky, fog, grassland, desert, blurred scenery and so on. The key point is concise and clean, which will not interfere with the viewer's line of sight and can highlight the main body. Blank helps to create the artistic conception of the picture, which is simple and monotonous without losing its charm and makes the picture more attractive.

Grasp the characteristics of props

Soft cloth can be shaped beautifully by wind or human intervention, but the shape is difficult to control. Try several times when shooting, until you get the desired effect.

Add props that match the theme

Use props to add color, let the picture get rid of monotony and improve the content of the picture.

Imitate the proportion of movie pictures

Cut the scale of the picture to 16:9, and add black edges up and down to add some film sense.

Add material

When the picture is monotonous, you can add some materials later to enrich the picture content.

Post typesetting

Use the typesetting of ancient elements to enrich the vision. Circular composition is a common composition method in ancient literary style, which transforms a square frame into circular composition.