How to shoot portraits of rape flowers

Rape flower is the most popular flower sea variety today, and many portraits of rape flower have mushroomed all over the Internet. If you want to shoot portraits in the sea of rape, but don't want to make them too popular, let's learn how POCO fashion photographer goddess(Xi· Hao Min) created "portraits in the sea of rape"!

A good work often involves many factors, such as framing, composition, exposure and so on. Because it is visual communication, modern photographers are far from satisfying these simple basic photography skills. We are also picky about clothing, overall modeling, makeup, accessories and shooting scenes, which shows that a work contains so many success or failure factors; If we dig deep into the composition of photographic works, it is necessary to talk about "feeling". A good work with vitality needs the perfect interpretation of the model and the photographer as the "story director" in order to give the work long-term vitality.

Detailed analysis: the application of depth of field in the post-production of clothing composition with optical communication technology.

put on

The clothes here are casually matched, as long as they can blend into the color of rape fields; Focus on the model's hat, so that the visual center of gravity is easily attracted by the big brim, and then transferred to the model's melancholy eyes. These preparations are enough to greatly add points to the upcoming picture, emphasize the key details of the picture and unify the whole picture.

composition

Writing a composition needs careful consideration.

1. In order to highlight the main body of the characters, I stood on a ladder about one meter high and adjusted the angle of view up and down, so that the scenery outside the rape field in the distance would not appear in the middle of the picture as far as possible, to avoid chaotic things and colors destroying the unity of the picture;

2. Shooting at an oblique angle of 30 degrees downward, the model's face is placed at the top of the picture 1/3, which is the golden position for most portraits.

3. I usually like to leave blank space in front of the model, as shown below: I put the model's face on the right side of the picture, and her sight is guided to the upper left corner of the picture.

These composition details can be randomly adjusted during shooting. The purpose of this is to leave more visual space in the picture, and the line of sight of the people watching the work will be guided by the line of sight of the characters in the picture, thus increasing the infinite imagination space.

Application of depth of field

In order to highlight people, I used the parameters of shutter: 1/640 aperture: f/2.5. Through the large aperture of F/2.5, the foreground and background of the model in the picture were blurred perfectly, and the people with clear outlines were highlighted, thus achieving the purpose of attracting vision.

exhaust

It was sunny at that time, and there was even a little strong direct sunlight. The assistant uses a reflector to fill the light below the front of the character to compensate for some shadows under the brim. The angle of sunlight basically forms a 45-degree oblique backlight with the shooting angle, which effectively outlines the figure.

Interpersonal skills

Want to shoot more feelings, more from communication. Our shooting actually took less than 10 minutes, and most of the time was spent on communication. The model was instructed to show a kind of "confusion". The blurred eyes are finally formed in my constant shouting "a little more, a little more".

post production

Finally, talk about post-production. Obviously, the overall tone of the picture has been adjusted. I don't want to show the traditional color of rape. Maybe it's visual fatigue. Finally, it was fixed as it is now, with melancholy eyes and faint colors.