What should I pay attention to when taking a family photo?

As a professional photographer, family photo shooting is also a very hot market, from a family of three newborns to a big family of ten or twenty people. What should I pay attention to when shooting this kind of subject? Here are some things I carefully recommend for you to pay attention to when taking a family photo, hoping to help you.

Matters needing attention in taking family photos 1. Communication before shooting is very important.

No matter what kind of photography work, it is very important to communicate in advance, so is the family photo. As photographers, we must take the initiative to understand the needs of customers. For example, is the customer taking a family photo to commemorate anything special? Is there any style you want to present? Do the photos taken have any special purpose? Do you have any special scenes you want to shoot?

Maybe they will have no idea at first, but photographers can guide them through communication, and good shooting ideas may be born in this process.

2. Restrictions on clothing

Maybe some customers will ask their families to wear so-called? Home clothes? Sometimes, in order to present a certain style or picture color matching relationship, as a photographer, I also hope that customers will not have too much color difference in their clothes, which is also a part that needs good communication.

Sometimes the rules are too strict, which may cause disputes within the customer's family. For example, some people are unwilling to cooperate with clothes, which may affect the shooting mood of the subject. Maybe you can try? Color system? Provide customers with suggestions on clothing arrangements, so that different family members have more clothing choices. Harmony? You can also wear your own style.

3. Pay attention to the arrangement of shooting time

If there are children under three years old among the subjects, it may be necessary to pay attention to the time when they take a nap or drink milk, and then consider whether to avoid the time before taking a nap or before and after drinking milk to avoid children's emotional instability. If you want to shoot outdoors, you should avoid the sunny noon. You can choose three hours after sunrise or before sunset, and the lighting effect is better.

4. Pay attention to the aperture size

Usually when shooting a person, using a large aperture can really create a charming effect of shallow depth of field, but when shooting multiple portraits, a large aperture may blur some people's faces together. In order to take clear photos of each family member's face and avoid large aperture shooting, we can try shooting in the range of F8.0- 13.

5. Don't force the subjects to take off their glasses.

When you shoot people with glasses, you may have had the experience of always reflecting light. I'm afraid these reflections will become a fly in the ointment of the picture, and readers can't see clearly the eyes of people wearing glasses. So, isn't it better to ask them to take off their glasses and take pictures? No, don't do that. Many times, these glasses will be a symbol of a person's personality, and may even become the biggest symbol of a person. Once you take off your glasses, he may not be who you think he is.

Therefore, it is best for photographers to solve the problem of reflection by themselves, such as using polarizers to assist photography, or changing the angle of shooting position.

6. Pay attention to the speed of flashback.

When taking portraits of many people, such as family portraits, maybe many friends will want to take photos in the way of continuous shooting. After taking more pictures at a time, they will choose the best one of all people, so that they won't always catch someone closing their eyes. But now the camera's high-speed continuous shooting ability is getting stronger and stronger, but can your internal flash be adjusted back as fast as the camera's continuous shooting speed? If it is an external flash, there is another independent power supply, which has little impact.

7. Moderate shooting and rest time

When shooting in a relatively high temperature environment, remember not to last too long at a time, pay attention to the customer's state and let them rest at the right time, otherwise, the face red by the sun, the sweaty mess, or the strange expression of holding back the thirst for urine will affect the image quality.

Shooting skills, the main points of shooting a positive film

Technically, it can be divided into indoor and outdoor situations. In terms of composition, whether horizontal or vertical, try to make room and don't make the photos look too compact. Moreover, a tripod is needed to make the camera have stable shooting support, whether indoors or outdoors. Then turn on the countdown shooting mode in the fuselage (otherwise how can you put yourself in) and use the shutter remote control. It is easy to do it outdoors. There is plenty of light, and the framing is free, as long as the background selection is not too ugly. Ordinary entry-level SLR kit, if the place is like my hometown, move a few stools and shoot outdoors during the day. After adding the exposure value of 0.3-0.7, use the aperture mode, and use the maximum aperture of the second gear to shoot perfectly. If you connect a printer, you can really buy Wi-Fi printing.

The difficulty is indoors. First of all, if you choose an APS-C camera with a wide-angle lens, you should pay attention to the deformation of people at the edge when you have to use an ultra-wide-angle focal length of 8mm- 10mm when shooting. Try to avoid wide-angle distortion, or simply shoot in a different environment. When shooting formally, the ISO value should be increased as much as possible (1600-3200) to ensure the shutter speed. Remember to take more photos. This is because if the shutter speed can't reach at least 1/30, then one or two people will probably blink or have other expressions in the photos taken. And remember, without the help of the flash, you have to press the shutter countdown password to make everyone consciously freeze.

Shooting tips 1, use the flash carefully when shooting.

Taking a group photo indoors is easy to make the subject blush, especially in the dark environment with a flash. Use the flash to make the already dim scene even dimmer, and the shooting effect can be imagined, so turn off the flash.

2. Use spot metering to ensure exposure.

In a dark background environment, the background light is darker than people. If you want to shoot with the camera's global metering mode, you will lose a lot of details because it is too bright. So we'd better choose the spot metering mode to shoot, and put the metering point on people's face to improve the exposure accuracy of the whole subject.

3. Take a family photo with a tripod.

You can use triangle composition commonly used in composition to lay out the shooting structure. You can arrange the characters in a triangle or an inverted triangle, so that the picture is more neat and comfortable.

4. Pay attention to capture the wonderful moments.

In the scene of eating or chatting, take a smiling family photo with the elders as the center. However, it is still difficult to capture the picture, so a photographer needs a lot of practice and is good at discovering that he will capture the perfect family photo scene.

5. Shoot from different angles.