How to take pictures of boys to look good?

Most photographers like to shoot beautiful women but seldom handsome men, so most people don't know where to start when they see handsome men. In fact, shooting handsome guys is similar to other shooting techniques, such as composition, background selection, props and posture. Let's take a look at some skills of shooting handsome guys.

Choose the right background.

Unless you want to take a commemorative photo and need to take a very clear background, choose a simple background for our handsome guy, so as to highlight the subject of shooting. If the background is not blurred, the effect can be imagined. Of course, if the background is complex, you can also use a telephoto lens and a large aperture to blur the background, thus highlighting the characters.

A simple background can highlight people.

2. Break the conventional composition.

The most common composition method we see is horizontal composition or vertical composition. Seeing too many photos of these two composition methods will make people feel too ordinary and difficult to attract people. Therefore, it is necessary to change the way of composition and innovate. Now there is a very popular method to take portraits of people; To change the shooting angle of the camera, just gently rotate the camera to the right or left, and then shoot. In fact, this method can be attributed to diagonal composition. As shown below, the photo looks more fashionable and innovative by breaking the conventional horizontal and vertical composition and adopting diagonal composition.

When taking portrait photos, the most common view is to leave white space around the portrait when composing, and don't let the characters occupy the whole picture. However, everything is constantly changing. If you want people to be more professional and innovative like photos, you may wish to adopt the following methods: compact composition, extensive cutting, trimming off the top of the subject's head, and filling the subject's head with a view frame. If you haven't taken such a photo before, you might as well try it. Such a compact composition will bring a very eye-catching effect. This composition technique has become the mainstream way of many top fashion, beauty and portrait photography.

(diagonal composition shooting is innovative)

(Compact composition shooting)

3. Clever use of lighting to create a cold feeling

When we look at photos, we are usually attracted by the brightest things in the photos first, that is to say, if the photos of handsome guys you take are evenly illuminated, there will be no points of interest to attract readers. So we need to make some changes, so that the brightest light can be transmitted to the places that need to be highlighted most. If you want to guide the audience to focus on the position you want, you need bright light here. For example, when taking close-ups of people, you can let bright light hit the nose or eyes that need to be highlighted, while most people need bright light to highlight their faces in half-length or whole-body photos.

In addition, we can use different light to create different feelings, as shown below. The handsome guy in this photo looks very cold, depicting the feeling of being cold first and then hot. If we look closely, we will find that the light in this photo is very unique, only half of the face is illuminated, while the other part does not project any light. This high light ratio and high contrast can greatly highlight the cold feeling, coupled with the model's expression and eyes, a good portrayal of the cold theme.

(Clever use of light to create a cold feeling)

Here, the author introduces two cold skills to build handsome guys. Although the photo below does not use the light described above, it looks very cold. This is because the model not only shows us his plump figure, but also the naked upper body is in sharp contrast with the cold weather in winter in the north. The background figure behind him is still wearing a down jacket, and the branches and leaves have withered, but the model has abandoned his coat, which brings personal chill and makes people feel very cold. In addition, the black hat and eyes worn by the model also contributed to this cold atmosphere.

(cold handsome guy)

Another way to create a cold feeling is a unique shooting angle, which uses the overhead shooting method to shoot from bottom to top, and highlights the cold feeling with the deformation effect of wide-angle lens, which brings a unique feeling compared with horizontal and vertical composition. The handsome model in the picture below looks up at the sky, and the slightly inclined composition and upside-down shooting method make this photo bring a unique visual effect and look very cold.

4. Discard "eggplant" and take more photos.

Although eggplant has nothing to do with photography, many friends always say the word "eggplant" when taking pictures, which makes the subject smile and have some spirit and energy in front of the camera. However, after you called "eggplant", it means that the portrait photos of handsome guys you took can't have natural expressions. Because for a photographer and amateur, your job is to find the natural expression of the characters and capture this moment in time.

So when we shoot handsome guys, we also need some special effects, more natural smiles and expressions. Another way is that you can communicate with the subjects more, inspire them, make them start talking and laughing, and even let them kill time, and then capture this moment when the time is right. Only in this way can we take the most natural photos.

(Captured photos are the most natural)

5. Props and postures are also important.

Props and postures are also important for portrait photography. Props can set off characters, and different postures will show different personalities and styles of characters, even some special postures or shooting angles, and can cover up some defects.

Compared with beautiful women, handsome guys seem to have no props to use. Actually, it's not. There are only a few props, such as sunglasses, lighters, Mozi and bibs, which can be used as props for handsome guys, and these props are more mature for men.

(one of the uses of props)

(The second use of props)