How do portrait photographers improve themselves?

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Know yourself.

There are many ways to learn photography, all of which actually contain a primary purpose? Help you know yourself correctly.

The so-called photography level must include various elements related to portrait photography. Together with your inspiration and talent, these elements constitute the overall level of photography. According to what we are familiar with? Barrel theory? How much water a barrel contains is determined by the shortest board. Similarly, it is likely that you have shown extraordinary aura in some aspects and played quite well in shooting, but it is often those links that you are unfamiliar with or ignore that ultimately affect and limit the overall level. What model do you use? Do you have a good cooperation with the makeup artist? Are you comfortable with the camera language? Do you often feel at a loss when facing the computer? What you ignore or even think is unimportant is exactly what you need to learn and supplement most.

It is likely that you have realized that portrait photography today is not as simple as pressing the shutter on the model. It is a real systematic project, and the final level of the work depends on the level of each link. If you want to be a professional or professional photographer, you must grasp all the links and form a complete process. The level of this process is your photography level. To improve the level, we must start from all aspects of the process. Even if you have taken a good work or won such an award, it is obvious that you have not reached the standard of a real professional photographer before the whole process is established.

Technology and means

The more things you master, the more information you can interpret in a work: in the face of a portrait work, a layman can only see beautiful models and feel the appeal of the picture; As a photographer, you can obviously analyze many factors, such as model, makeup, modeling, clothing collocation, scene setting, lens language, composition skills, instantaneous and dynamic, color application and post-adjustment, makeup and skin treatment, and find out which links are excellent and worth learning and learning from, and which ones are just general or have certain defects. Keep this habit of analysis and observation. At first, many elements may be intertwined and very complicated. However, as your level is getting higher and higher, more things will become simple and clear in your eyes. At this time, you may be able to see at a glance what is the most critical element contained in a work.

Any excellent work is based on a complete and effective workflow, which is formed by one or several links giving full play to their functions. It is often the case that the photographer's workflow is incomplete or obviously missing, but with the excellent performance of a certain link, he can also form a work? But such works often inevitably make people feel that there is a certain lack of professionalism; There are also a few very successful photographers whose works may have reached a high level in all aspects of the craft? Of course, it is not easy to reach this level, which makes people realize that improving the level is not something that can be done overnight.

For a photographer who just started, learning from and imitating is the most direct and quickest way to improve his level. Portrait photography has many objective conditions as the premise, so even hope is complete? Copy? A work is impossible in most cases, so you don't have to worry about what your work looks like at a certain stage. Very similar? A famous photographer.

For cutting-edge photographers, most of them are still in the first state we described: they have a basically complete and effective workflow and have excellent performance in one or two aspects. Because of this, their works have the most direct reference value for most people.

The wedding photography process often needs basis? Is it steady? Mainly? The use of various technologies should be more moderate; This film is clever and ingenious in scene, composition, lighting and costume collocation? It is not difficult to imagine that such an effect will be most widely welcomed in commercial shooting.

The white gauze curtain, the red light, and the full scheduling of the small space constitute an impactful picture.

The noisy and shabby environment, foreign models wearing strange clothes, simple and direct fashion shooting methods and excellent black and white tone control ability have created outstanding visual tension and cultural sense.

The core skill of this set of photos comes from a very simple Photoshop operation? Reverse phase has achieved surprising results because few people use it as the main creative means.

The harmonious collocation of clothing and environment, the proper use of lens perspective effect and good instant grasp create exciting effects in plain.

Scenes, models, costumes, props? Everything appears in an unconventional way? For modern cutting-edge photographers, it's different? Often the most important!

Scene setting, model layout, costume modeling, complex lighting? Typical fashion blockbuster operation method? It is not difficult to imagine the scale and complexity of such shooting; And there is only one purpose: the display of personal style! Maybe some people think that these have nothing to do with portrait photography? But who stipulated what portrait photography should look like?

Behind the harmonious and beautiful picture is a huge investment in shooting? Traveling thousands of kilometers with models, makeup artists, clothes and photographic equipment? Seeing this, do you still think portrait photography today is a very easy and simple thing?

Self-inflation

Do most professional photographers fall into self-repetition at some time? Especially skilled photographers who are engaged in business shooting? An inevitable dilemma. In serious cases, some people may even lose interest and enthusiasm in this industry and photography.

In commercial shooting, for the sake of efficiency and management, it is essential to form a relatively solid process and mode in the shooting process. Undoubtedly, in a sense, personal shooting out of interest and self-expression is completely different from day-to-day model commercial shooting. For young photographers with outstanding personality, the repeated composition process is a considerable test. However, this test is not meaningless: first, it can hone the endurance and self-control ability necessary for any profession; Secondly, you can make every technical link highly skilled. Commercial things are full of noise, impetuousness and shallowness, and it is inevitable that they will not be infected for a long time. In this process, it is most important to keep personal feelings about the lens, picture and image. Many professional photographers have a very effective experience: dividing shooting into two parts: personal and business, and taking personalized shooting as a kind of? Savings? , taking commercial shooting as? Release? . Facts have proved that it is very valuable for professional photographers to stick to this personalized creation.

Too much for professional portrait photographers? Specialization is what you see, think and do every day? Not necessarily a good thing. Portrait photography is only a category of photography, and commercial portrait is only a branch of portrait photography. If we can always jump out of the habitual thinking mode, our thinking and vision will be broader. The previous generation of photographers liked to take fashionable photos? Especially foreign fashion photographers to find creativity and inspiration; The new generation of photographers will turn their attention to film and television dramas, MTV, comics and video games, and integrate a wider range of popular cultural elements into portrait shooting, showing richer changes and possibilities.