How to better set the shooting characters and themes?

Lead: When I first heard people set this shooting mode, I was walking out of the period when it was easy to "break through100" (PS:100). At that time, I wanted to shoot when I saw beauty, so the pictures were often very similar, and they all looked the same in the end. It was a happy time (laughs). However, the way people take pictures has greatly changed my later shooting ... Here I would like to share with you the original shooting methods that Little Jack once participated in, which can bring different effects to photography.

Hook the edge with backlight, let the knife eat it up, and create mystery.

Recently, I often hear that photographers are tired of "taking pictures with sugar water", which reminds little Jack of a time when he was exposed to photography. At that time, the idea of taking pictures was not just "to take beautiful pictures". At first, he wanted to add his own plots and expressions to the photos, so that the photos would have more stories and emotions. I hope that through this shooting mode, photography can be more than beautiful photos. In fact, this is also the idea that many portrait photographers will have after a period of time. After shooting sugar water for a while, you will always covet more breakthroughs.

First, the black rose tower-seven colors

Setting: Seven Colors, an original sin fairy tale with the development concept of fairy tale, original sin and color, brings fairy tales into original sin.

Create a mysterious atmosphere through painting and backlight.

Second, art and discussion.

We set up a private club on FB to discuss progress and modeling together. Everyone changes clothes and tries on clothes after class or after work. Most of the people who participated in the shooting were Cos's partners. They designed their own clothes, bought basic clothes and modified them into designed' clothing shapes' to discuss the hope of shooting. Because this is a multi-person shooting theme, and I hope to focus on shooting as much as possible, so there are many agreed changes, but with the enthusiasm of my partners, the shooting was finally completed smoothly.

Black greed/crow drinking water

Third, the postscript of shooting

According to the needs of the story, find several shooting locations and adjust the colors to create a sense of fantasy or suspense. At this time, I like to dye different colors on the screen to create a sense of fantasy, which is more divorced from reality. Just right for this theme.

Green jealousy/Cinderella

Fourth, scenes and stories.

Ashi was a landscape photographer in his early days, so this series wanted to combine fighter planes with the beautiful scenery of Taiwan Province Province, so it took Ashi a lot of spirit and time to shoot this series, and he took a cooperative Cos and friends from south to north. Because of the time, I was lucky enough to keep up with the two shots, exchange shooting skills and effects, and see the beautiful scenery of Taiwan Province Province.

Purple Lazy/Sleeping Beauty

Verb (abbreviation of verb) art and discussion

Soldiers all have representative tattoos and attributes, which are set by Qinglong White Tiger Suzaku Xuanwu. This series of clothes are hand-painted by Ashui and Cos, and tattoo stickers are made to discuss Cos clothing, modeling and set personality.

Totems of Nine-tailed Fox, Kirin and Baban Snake

Totems of Qinglong, Baihu, Suzaku and Xuanwu.

Sixth, clothing

This set of shooting is the story of the overhead world, and the costumes are all made separately.

Kirin's totem/clothing style

Seven, shooting postscript

This set has elements of martial arts and magic, and the shooting location is also very special. In order to show our strength, we filmed the later stage twice. Only then did we know that termites are scary at night at the seaside. After all the lights go out, termites will gather around the only light-our flashlight, which is actually quite scary.

Post-treatment and special effect taste

Eight. conclusion

This kind of shooting is very interesting and special. In fact, it is very similar to drawing cartoons in the past, and I will imagine the character and story of the protagonist, but now these ideas are all done through photography. What this way brings me is that I will make similar small settings when shooting ordinary portraits, so that MD will be more natural when trying to figure out the action, just like an actor holding a script, which will more accurately achieve the taste of the story.

If you give personality to the characters, the photos will be more interesting. Welcome interested friends to try it ~