Photographic skills of portraits of beautiful relics

Lead: In recent years, portrait photography in ruins has become more and more popular among film friends. As a crazy portrait photographer, I certainly can't resist the temptation of various themes that can be expressed by the combination of ruins and portraits. These themes can be emotional, literary and aesthetic. Below, the photographer will share with you some experiences in shooting portraits of relics, hoping to play a role in attracting jade.

Personally, I like to use the structure, light and shadow and atmosphere of the ruins to create a more emotional portrait theme. The lens selection is mainly short and medium focus, which can not only capture the representative points, lines and surfaces in the scene, but also effectively capture the light and shadow atmosphere of the scene. With this generous back, all that remains is light and composition. Next, let's use photos to explain:

1, find more representative points to express the emotions of the characters.

Find more representative points to express the emotions of the characters.

This work shows a person's loneliness. With the ruins as the background, it is vague, showing the feeling of wanting to break through the cage and break the bondage; Taking the pigeon as a point to compose a composition, the model touches the pigeon symbolizing freedom with her hand, which also expresses her dissatisfaction with reality and yearning for beauty, but the pigeon is also vague to a certain extent, which represents that this dream is as difficult to touch. In other words, people and pigeons are highlighted with a greatly blurred background, and pigeons are highlighted with a smaller degree of ambiguity, so that the blurred background matches the key points.

2. Use the lines of the scene to highlight the characters and subjects.

Use the lines of the scene to highlight the characters and subjects.

This painting mainly uses the angle formed by the lines of the steel frame to guide and highlight the main body. Although the proportion of characters in the picture is very small, I noticed it at a glance.

3. Look for faces that can highlight the theme to match the rendering of emotions.

Highlight the theme with emotional rendering.

Choose a wall of a waste factory with doors on it. Explain the theme of the picture by darkening the wall and brightening the sunlight in the door frame. Blackening the walls means that modern people are accustomed to the besieged life and will form a sense of submission, thus diluting the besieged city. Compared with the dark indoor environment, the sunshine in the bright door frame is very dazzling, suggesting that it is difficult for people to adapt to the new environment after they get used to it (even if they don't like it). Just as a golden nest is not as good as its own kennel.

4. Use light and shadow composition to highlight the sense of form of the picture.

Use light and shadow composition to highlight the sense of form of the picture

Put the characters in the place where the sun shines, so that the faces and bodies of the characters are fully exposed, while the places where the sun does not shine are very dark. This highlights a sense of loneliness and makes the theme of the characters more prominent.

5. Expand the viewing angle through framing.

Enlarge the visual angle by using picture composition

The function of picture composition can guide the audience's attention to the scenery in the picture and highlight the main body. Forming a frame around the main image can create a mysterious atmosphere, just like a person peeking at a place from a hiding place. This kind of frame can be seen everywhere in dilapidated buildings, such as windows, door frames or structural wood and steel beams. It can basically be done easily. The picture above uses the most common door frame.

6. Use backlight to create a sense of atmosphere

Use backlight to create a sense of atmosphere

The backlight effect can make the characters look softer and clearer, and there is a hazy aesthetic feeling inside; Backlight can also be used to express emotions and render the atmosphere. The above picture uses the contrast between the strong light from the window and the indoor natural light to render the mood.

7. Use wide angle to store more environmental information.

Use wide angle to store more environmental information.

The wide-angle viewing angle determines that the wide-angle lens can contain more environmental information and explain the background needed for more topics. But at the same time, it is not conducive to the prominence of the main body, so it should be handled well. It is suggested that people can be placed at the intersection through strict symmetrical composition, TIC-tac-toe composition and trisection composition, and people can be emphasized from physiological vision.

In addition, in the later stage, according to the needs of the theme, the parts in the environment that don't need to be emphasized can be dimmed, which can simplify the background and highlight the theme. The above picture adopts three-point composition+post-background simplification and light guidance to make the characters look more conspicuous without being submerged in the background.

8. Use props to set off the theme

Use props to set off the theme

For portrait photography, especially for beginners who meet new models, props play a self-evident role. As a portrait in ruins, I strongly recommend the use of props, which can not only make the model's hands and limbs land, but also set off the atmosphere to express the theme. The above picture shows the use of swing to match the melancholy expression of the model and the open environment, which is easy to guide people's thinking. One person, one city? In the theme setting.