How to shoot a portrait of a beautiful girl with backlight?

Lead: You can talk about the reasons for photography, and there are also materials to check. So, little brother, I'm trying to repackage portrait photography to give you people a deeper understanding of portrait photography ... Let's have a look!

▲ Canon EOS 5, Sigma 35mm F 1.4, expired mainland version of Fuji color C200 film.

The secret technique of backlight

First of all, let's talk about the most abundant backlight. There are many famous photographers in Taiwan Province Province who have taken backlights. Although my brother feels good, he still keeps a low profile, because everything is a cloud to me. Maybe Bruce Lee and I are brothers, so we should talk about it everywhere?

Anyway, because I really like to shoot portraits with backlight, I'm going to talk about backlight in the whole article today, but even the backlight that everyone likes best now is slightly different. Not just pick up the camera and point it at the sun. Let my little brother share with you how to make your backlight beautiful and distinctive. Even the backlight that everyone shoots can make the audience feel strange. First of all, I haven't read other people's backlit books. If there are similarities, it is purely coincidental!

Abroad, there is Rembrandt light, which refers to the painting or shooting method that strongly uses the light sense of the characters' faces and emphasizes the facial features and faces, while the sunshine in Taiwan Province Province is generally called Moline Niang light, because it rains all the year round in Taiwan Province Province, so we can really thank the gods for shooting beautiful backlight.

▲ Canon EOS 5, Sigma35mm F 1.4, Fuji Color 100 commercial film.

To shoot a good-looking backlight, we must first have a lens that is not too bad, preferably a new lens, and then try to open the aperture as wide as possible to shoot a transparent and bright feeling on the premise of taking into account the image quality. Secondly, it is best to shoot with negative film, and use the high tolerance of negative film to express the tone of backlight (the brand and quality of negative film will also affect the effect of backlight shooting. Personally, it seems that Fuji's tolerance is a little better than Kodak's.

Backlight shooting is the most important theme, but the background can't be dead white, otherwise there will be fog, because the outline of a backlit portrait can only be clearly displayed in a clear background, and if digital shooting is used, it will be easy to blur and make the image have no three-dimensional sense.

▲ Canon EOS 5, Sigma 35mm F 1.4, expired mainland version of Fuji color C200 film.

You may not know what to say, but you can read it quickly: The following two pictures show the light around 3: 30 pm in autumn in southern Taiwan Province Province. Although it is not an excellent backlight shooting time, we all know that my sister is too upright to care so much. The first one is a Fuji color 100 business negative brought back from Japan by my friend, and the aperture is F 1.8. The second one is the mainland version of Fuji color C200 that I brought back from Shanghai. It is two months overdue, and the aperture is about F2.8 ..

Rush, sweep and lens are all the same', and the second one is brighter. Although the conditions are not exactly the same, you can still see how different the aperture size is from the negative!

The following photo was taken in a residential area next to Huaihai Middle Road in Shanghai. In fact, the situation that day was very suitable for backlighting. However, because there is only one digital camera at hand, we can leave this digital backlight for everyone to see and compare. Although the performance of Canon EOS 5D Mark II is very good, it is still not as good as the negative.

▲ canon EOS 5d mark ii, ef 28mm f 1.8, awb, standard mode.

Next, let's take a look at the performance of a zoom lens that is not so high in grade, or an old lens that shoots people in reverse light.

▲ Canon EOS 5, EF 24-85mm F3.5-4.5, Fuji color X-TRA 400 negative.

▲ Seagull 4B, Fuji Pro 400H negative.

So because the background color is not deep enough, it is easy to be white, and the outline will be eaten, so it doesn't feel so transparent, does it? ?

Magical moment

The height of the sun determines the effect: generally, we shoot girls outside in the afternoon (we can't get up in the morning), and the best time is from 4: 00 to 6: 30 in summer (Taiwan Province Province) and from 2: 00 to 5: 00 in winter. Before going out, you can check that the first half hour of a day in central weather bureau is the most beautiful magical moment, and then observe whether the sky near the horizon is opaque. If it gets dark, we can choose to shoot early and finish early. Let's share some photos of magical moments.

▲ Contax 645, 80 mm2+ Kodak Ektar 100 negative.

▲ Contax 645, 80mF2, Kodak Ektar 100 negative.

▲ Contax 645, 80mF2, Kodak Ektar 100 negative.

▲ Canon EOS 1 VHS, Sigma35mm1.4, Efiniti UXI 200 negative.

▲ Canon EOS 5, Sigma 35mm f 1.4, Kodak ektar 100 negative.