How to shoot someone like Jia Yuping's photo book?

1) What kind of lens is the best for shooting people?

A medium-distance zoom lens or a fixed-focus lens can be used. Shooting people with short focal length often exaggerates their facial features and sometimes makes their noses look bigger than they really are. When using the 85- 135mm lens called portrait lens, the five senses will show the correct proportion. And too long focal length will flatten the face.

2) The shooting distance should be as close as possible

If your character is so small on the screen that his face can't be the center of the performance in the photo at first glance, the effect is of course poor. The solution is simple, that is, close to the subject. Robert capa, a famous war photographer who recently produced Beauty, said: If your photos are not good enough, it is because you are not close enough. In addition, when composing a picture, try to keep your head in the upper part of the picture, so as to coordinate the proportion of the picture!

3) Simple clothes

Colorful clothes tell the audience to shift their attention from the person being photographed and try to use simple design and quiet colors. Many portrait photographers just ask their subjects to wear a cloth with a harmonious color when shooting. This will make the whole picture clearer and fresher. Give people a feeling of returning to nature! In addition, we should pay attention to color matching, and reasonable color matching will make the shooting theme more prominent. Generally speaking, without pursuing special artistic purposes, the complementary colors of red, blue and green are yellow, magenta and cyan.

4) adopt a large aperture

This will make the depth of field shallower, make the subject more prominent, and make the characters the only subject and focus. But a large aperture will make the depth of field too shallow. If one eye of the character is farther than the other, it will cause the eyes on the screen to be out of focus or blurred. You can abandon the background and use a smaller aperture when you remedy it.

5) Use as many vertical pictures as possible.

The horizontal shooting effect is better when shooting group images, but the vertical shooting effect is better than the horizontal shooting when shooting only one person. Vertical width adapts to the "rectangular" shape of people, making the main body stand out. At the same time, the vertical picture reduces the background and makes the main body more prominent.

6) Rational use of light

When shooting people, the most taboo is to directly use the light above your head. This light will produce shadows around the eye sockets, nose and chin. Direct flash (facial expressions are often stiff and produce shadows) and sunny outdoor (eyes can't be opened) ... these occasions are not suitable for shooting. We can shoot in some cool places, under sunny trees ... It will be very helpful for us to use auxiliary equipment such as flash, reflector and reflective umbrella reasonably and skillfully.

In addition, as the saying goes: the eyes are the windows to the soul. I think the most important thing in human photography is human eyes. But for a beginner, this problem is often ignored. Still don't know how to shoot people's eyes! Outdoor, we often use flash to fill the light and shoot the eyes! In fact, there are many methods, such as showing the subject a luminous object ... which need to be discussed separately.

The above is my experience. But if you want to shoot really good works, you need photographers to observe life deeply and record life from an artistic point of view. Capture every bright spot in life, record beautiful moments, love life, enjoy life, pursue beauty and create beauty ... this is photography!

Finally, I wish everyone can make good works! Let's enjoy the fun that photography can bring us!