Photography skills of cloudy portraits

Generally speaking, people don't think cloudy days are a good time to shoot, but only on dark days with heavy clouds or cloudy days with rapid climate change will it really pose great technical challenges to photographers, and cloudy days with bright light are just suitable for shooting portraits. If you want to shoot a good outdoor portrait on a cloudy day, you must also have skills!

Photography skills of cloudy portraits 1: 1. Learn to use the light of special weather.

When shooting on cloudy days, the general ambient light will be dim. At this time, tripod can be used to ensure the clarity of the picture, or exposure compensation can be appropriately increased to correct the brightness of the fine picture. You can also use polarizers and warm filters to enhance the color saturation of the picture and strengthen the main body.

2. Change the shooting angle

The sky is always gray on cloudy days, so you can try to avoid the sky occupying a large area in the picture when composing. Make the best use of the scenery on the ground, not the gloomy sky. Although there is no strong light and shadow effect on cloudy days, the color reproduction is very accurate, and the composition should be expressed in vivid and diverse ways.

Step 3 find the contrast

Although the cloudy sky is gray, there is not much visibility, but the color of vegetation will appear brighter under scattered light, which can highlight the gloom and depression of the sky through the strong color contrast of reference objects and create visual appeal.

4. Use the prospect to contrast the sense of space

The sense of space and distance is exactly the effect pursued by shooting landscape works. To choose a good prospect, if there is no prospect to set off, the sense of space and distance will be weakened and the appeal of the whole picture will be lost. It should also be noted that the light is dark on cloudy days, so you can use a large aperture to blur the scenery outside the subject, so as to obtain the effect of combining reality with reality.

5, looking for reference, manufacturing effect

In cloudy photography, photographers can also choose foggy scenery lacking details and colors to take picturesque photos. Running water and fog are good props, and the dark sky brings weak light, so the combination of slow shutters is used to shoot picturesque effects.

The second skill of cloudy portrait photography: 1, correctly control the exposure.

Don't use the flash directly (it is easy to make the interview lines stiff and the background dim), turn up the aperture, use the shutter for a little longer, or raise the ISO level. This can make the subject and background receive light more consistently, and will not cause the subject to be too bright and the background to be too dark. Shooting on cloudy days would rather be underexposed than overexposed. Once over-exploded, not only the level is damaged, but also the color is dull, which is difficult to make up in the later stage.

2. Correct control of white balance

The color temperature will be high on cloudy days, and the color tone of photos will be slightly blue. Adjust the color temperature through the "cloudy day" white balance option in the camera, or adjust the white balance through manual metering.

Step 3 make full use of color

Wear lively and bright clothes to avoid the gloomy feeling on cloudy days; Or create a color contrast between the characters and the background, and create a sense of hierarchy and space by contrast to avoid shooting in cloudy days, soft light and too dull pictures. A good photo, even if it is taken on a cloudy day, must be luminous.