Portrait photography, how to make people look taller and slender?

"Everyone loves beauty." People who take portraits, especially female friends, naturally want photographers to make themselves more beautiful. From people's general understanding of beauty, slender figure, especially the slender figure of women, is very aesthetic and will bring people a smooth visual feeling of human beauty. So, if the models are photographed more slender, or not so tall, what about using some photography techniques to portray them more slender? It can be achieved by the following four techniques and methods.

First, the use of special lenses.

We can use the shifting lens to change the characteristics of perspective, so that the model's legs become longer than the actual ones because of perspective. When taking a portrait with a shift lens, you should adjust the camera position higher, keep the camera as horizontal as possible, don't lean down, and try to adjust the lens towards the model. In composition, sometimes people's feet are found in the composition picture, so don't worry. We can unlock the movement of the lens, turn the movement knob and let the lens move down until the foot is included in the composition range. Finally, we use manual focusing to release the camera shutter after ensuring that the face of the person is clearly focused. So we got a picture of the long-legged model.

Because shifting the lens is more expensive. In order to achieve the effect of shooting a slim figure without putting too much pressure on the budget, it is recommended that you use a wide-angle lens or a super wide-angle lens with higher cost performance. When choosing a suitable wide-angle lens or even an ultra-wide-angle lens, we can take advantage of the perspective deformation of the wide-angle lens, and then choose a suitable angle and shooting posture, which can also shoot slender portraits.

Shooting back with a wide-angle lens will make your legs longer. )

Second, low viewing angle, low position, and prone shooting.

In addition to the special perspective deformation effect of "near big and far small" brought by wide-angle lens, you can also shoot at a lower shooting position or angle of view. When we use this technique called backhand, it will definitely make our model's figure look taller and make her legs look longer. The photographer shoots the subject with a relatively low shooting angle, which makes the originally slender legs more slender. In addition, the photographer used a wide-angle lens, which made good use of the physical characteristics of the lens "near big and far small" to make the beautiful model's legs "stretch longer".

(Shooting upward can make the model slim.)

Third, close to the theme.

In addition to using backhand to help us shape a longer model, we can also use the method close to the subject to help us "lengthen" the model's legs. This technology also takes advantage of the perspective deformation effect of wide-angle lens and ultra-wide-angle lens. Generally speaking, the most obvious areas of wide-angle perspective deformation are on both sides of the picture, so we should be as close as possible to the subject, so that the model's body and legs will become very slender because of perspective deformation.

(Make the model slender and close to the main body)

This is a portrait successfully shot with this technique. When shooting, the lens is very close to the toe of the female model. Because we can make full use of the perspective deformation characteristics of wide-angle lens, the legs of this beautiful model are more slender, and because the shooting angle and shooting distance are just right, this photo still gives readers a real and natural feeling.

(Combine back shooting and close-up shooting to make the model slim)

The beauty in this portrait also has slender legs. In addition to the good innate conditions of the model, the photographer also adopted the method of combining the back shooting technique with the closer shooting distance to make the beautiful woman's legs look more slender.

Fourth, the pose and reasonable composition of the model.

Reasonable composition or appropriate changes in the posture of the model can also make the posture of the model taller and the legs of the model longer. In portrait photography, if the diagonal composition is successfully used, it can not only actively guide the viewer's line of sight, make the whole picture look full of dynamic and tension, but also make the subject occupy the longest direction in the picture, and make the female model's figure, especially her legs, naturally look more slender.

Reasonable composition can make the model slim.

We can not only make our model's legs more slender with proper composition, but also adopt better methods, that is, the photographer guides and controls the model's graceful posture when shooting, and even use some "eye-catching methods" to help our model become taller and more slender.

A reasonable posture can make a model slim.