What kinds of outdoor portrait photography are there?

Outdoor portrait shooting skills (I extracted from Sina blogger "Li's blog")

Portrait photography is a very important part of photography, and outdoor portrait photography is one of the simplest and most difficult topics in photography. Because outdoor portrait shooting should not only show the personal temperament of the subject, but also express the photographer's own intentions, which tests the photographer's ability to grasp the surrounding environment. Today, I will briefly introduce the skills of outdoor portrait shooting, hoping to bring some help to everyone's shooting

I. Preparatory work

There are many styles of portrait shooting, and the style of blurring the background is more popular and popular now. And if you want to take this style of photos, then there are certain requirements for digital cameras, that is, large aperture.

It is best to take a reflector when shooting outdoor portraits, because the reflector is an important tool to fill the light, eliminate the shadow on the face and increase the light in the eyes of people. With it, the effect of photos will be very different.

Second, choose the right time and place.

Portrait shooting pays more attention to the choice of time and place. Usually sunny days are from 9 am to 1 1 and from 3 pm to 5 pm. There are two reasons for choosing the shooting time: first, the light is moderate when the sun is oblique, unlike the ugly shadow that is easy to produce in the hot sun at noon. In addition, the characters will perform better in soft sunlight and the photos taken will be more natural.

Third, the beauty skills and composition of portrait photography

The so-called composition is to arrange various shooting elements in a specific scene to achieve the effect of expressing the object of appeal. There are three commonly used composition modes: close-up, seven people and full body. When shooting a composition, we should pay attention to the matching of the main portrait with the surrounding environment, and the main character should occupy at least one-fifth of the whole photo, because if the characters in the portrait photos we take are too small, the scenery in the whole photo will become a kind of interference, which is something that photographers who like to shoot portraits should pay special attention to.

The purpose of portrait photography is to make people beautiful. Therefore, how to decorate the subject is a test for photographers. Now we will introduce several ways to improve the character image through posture modeling.

For people with fat faces, you can cover them with small ornaments such as veil, and you can also improve the camera position.

For the subject with a long neck, it is also necessary to improve the plane position so that the subject can hold the lower jaw.

For people with sharp chin, you should use a combination of high position and low head.

Adjust the angle of the subject with big eyes, and close to the lens with small eyes.

For those who are ugly, try to avoid close-ups and recent photos.

Finally, I would like to introduce the matters needing attention in outdoor portrait shooting on cloudy days to photographers.

Many people think that cloudy days are not suitable for portraits, but this concept is not correct. Bright cloudy days with thin clouds are the best photography climate, because the light is scattered quite softly. On dark days with heavy clouds or cloudy days with rapid climate change, it does pose greater technical challenges to photographers.

If you want to take a good portrait on a cloudy day, you should at least pay attention to the following aspects.

Let the characters wear lively and bright clothes to avoid the gloomy feeling on cloudy days.

When people are placed in a dark background, their skin will appear whiter and brighter.

If your camera has a white balance item on a cloudy day, you can set the white balance item on a cloudy day when shooting to avoid the blue feeling of the photos you take.