Portrait photography skills

When shooting portraits, we can make up for the physical defects of individual characters by using different lights and taking different shooting angles. The main remedial measures are introduced below.

1. People with chubby faces should not take positive images, but their faces can be slightly sideways, and the position of the camera should be raised appropriately to shoot at a downward angle. The illumination angle of the main light should be slightly higher and slightly sideways, so that the face can be projected and the face can look thinner. For the face-lifting type, the opposite method can be used to make up for it.

2. For people with different eye sizes, according to the perspective principle that the lens is near big and far small, we can shoot from a slightly sideways angle and put the smaller side of the eye close to the lens, so that we can shoot the smaller eye a little bigger and make the two eyes look similar in size. It can also be treated with light.

The specific method is to arrange the larger eyes in the bright part and the smaller eyes in the dark part to cover up the defects. For people with deep eyes, you can lower the main light and shoot with softer light. Shooting people with prominent eyes can make them lower their sight properly, thus making up for the defects.

3. People with incorrect lip shape can take a slightly sideways angle and use different light to make up for it.

4. For a person with a long nose, lower the position of the main light and camera, slightly raise the person's head and shoot from the front. People with flat noses should not take side portraits, but use side light to shadow one side of their noses, so that they will not look flat.

5. For people with thin face, protruding forehead and thin chin, the position of the main light and camera should be lowered and shot from the front.

6. For people with too many wrinkles on their faces, lower the position of the main light and shoot from the side with soft light.

7. It's easy to reflect when you shoot someone with your eyes, if you ask him to lower his head. And pushing the frame a little higher and adjusting the side auxiliary light can reduce the reflection on the glasses.

8. Other defects, such as cheeks, forehead, eyebrows, etc. You can make up for it by changing the shooting angle and adjusting the light position.