How to run out of portraits?

Photography is the art of light. Without light, photography is like a painter without paint. The use of light in portrait photography is particularly important. We can not only use natural light to shape people, but also use artificial light to shape people. Therefore, portrait photography mainly uses light to express the subject, achieving the purpose of expressing different themes and producing different effects. 1. Using window light skillfully For centuries, painters like to use the sunlight outside the window to draw portraits, because this kind of light has strong modeling ability and good projection. Afterwards, photographers often use this light to shoot portraits indoors. When you put a reflector on the opposite side of the window light to reduce the shadow generated by the light source, the effect is soft and elegant, which can play an understatement role in the face of the person. This kind of lighting is especially suitable for color film and is used by many portrait photographers. Tips: 1. Adjusting the distance between the main body and the window can solve the problem of uneven illumination of this figure. When we use window light to shoot portraits, the light-colored small room reflects more light than the big and dark room, so the background will be brighter. 3. The intensity of reflected light and the tone of background can be adjusted by opening or closing curtains. Photographers can use curtains in different states according to their own wishes to simulate the effect of direct light with different tastes. 2. the magical use of scattered light "the light that is most suitable for expressing the subject" is the best light. In fact, scattered light has obvious advantages in representing local environment and scenery with great color contrast. On rainy days, outdoor light is very soft scattered light, which can achieve good results when shooting portraits. Scattered light is characterized by uniformity and softness, and the illuminated scenery and characters have no obvious light receiving surface, which brings the shortcomings of dull picture. Therefore, outdoor scattered light has excellent quality, but also has defects that can not be ignored. The photographer's conscious deployment is the embodiment of creative ability and a part of creation. Tips: 1. When using skylight or ambient light to create bright and dark surfaces, we should carefully choose the angle of light to serve the role modeling. 2. Pay attention to the preparation of tone and light and shade, and highlight the visual center. 3. The clever use of side light is characterized by the ability to show the shape and color of the main body in place. However, it is not easy to produce shadows on the side of the subject when shooting along the light, and it lacks three-dimensional sense. Side lighting is the most commonly used technique in artistic photography. Side light can block the direct light by using the protruding part of the face or body of the character to form a shadow, which shows that the outline of the character constitutes a contrast between light and dark. The existence of these contrasts looks lively and full of strong artistic charm. Tips: 1. Pay attention to the ratio of the light-receiving surface to the shadow surface on the screen, and adjust the proportional relationship between the light-receiving surface and the shadow surface according to the angle change between the light source projection direction and the camera shooting direction. 2. To control the contrast of light, the light ratio should not be too large, especially when shooting portraits. 3. Side light shooting, if the light contrast is large and the background color is messy, you can choose a large aperture to highlight the shape of the characters, and show the sense of space and theme through the contrast between reality and reality. 4. Try shooting against the light. Backlight shooting is a means of photography. Broad backlight should include full backlight and side backlight. If we can properly use the means of backlight photography, it will undoubtedly be of great value to enhance the artistic effect of photography creation. In the backlight scene, the character's hair will be more obvious and beautiful, the edge line of the body will also be presented, and the whole character will become more three-dimensional. This is also an important reason why many people in the field of photography like backlighting. In order to avoid the phenomenon of "big black face" in backlight shooting, we can try to use "exposure compensation" to shoot, that is, increasing exposure will make the face brighter, but this method will improve the brightness of the whole photo, so that not only the face will become brighter, but also the background will become brighter, resulting in the loss of background details. A better way is to use a reflector to reflect the light to a person's face, so that the whole image can be exposed normally. Tips: 1. Backlight shooting can produce dazzling contour light around the object and strongly outline the appearance of the object. 2. When shooting subjects that are easy to transmit light, such as flowers, trees, etc., the backlight level can be adopted, and the photographed subjects will show stronger texture. 3. Pay attention to the composition when the lens has severe halo, and adjust the lens position slightly to avoid the halo covering the subject. 4. Backlight shooting will affect the accuracy of autofocus, and you can focus accurately by manual method. 5. Avoid looking directly at the sun through the viewfinder for a long time, causing visual damage. 5. Make good use of shadows, just like the British photographer Frank? 6? 1 heldet said: "Everything in life is nothing more than light and shadow. When you see a beam of light coming in from the window, you should immediately think of its shadow. The two do not exist independently. " Since photography is "painting with light", shadows that cannot be illuminated by light must be an important aspect in the process of painting. Although people often ignore the role of shadow in photography, or even deliberately avoid it, it is still a vivid element in many photography works, and photographers can use it creatively with a little thinking. Thereby improving the photographic works. Tips: 1. Pay attention to the position of the model and avoid mottled shadows, especially around the eyes and nose. 2. For shooting people in the shadows, we need more composition, so as to find the effect we want most. 6. The closer the light source is, the softer the light is; The farther the light source is, the harder the light is. This is because the closer the light source is to the subject, the bigger it is, and the wider it is; The farther the light source is from the subject, the smaller it is, that is, the narrower it is. Take the sun as an example. The diameter of the sun is 109 times that of the earth. It's a fairly wide light source! However, the sun is 93 million miles away from the earth (about 65.438+0.5 billion kilometers), accounting for only a tiny part of the earth's sky, so the light is very hard when the sun shines directly on objects. Tip: When using the existing lighting to shoot a portrait indoors, you can change the distance between the light source and the subject to make the light of the photo more moving. 7. Using light to highlight the subject photography is the art of light and shadow. In order to highlight the subject in a photo, the relationship between light and shade is usually used. Generally, the main body is arranged in bright light, and the less important foil is arranged in the dark. Of course, there are other ways of lighting. For example, a bright background sets off a dark subject, a dark background sets off a bright subject, and so on. It is feasible and convenient to highlight the main body by using the change of light. Tips: List some lighting conditions that can highlight the three-dimensional modeling, spatial sense and surface structure of the subject: 1. On the light background, it can well describe the dark outline shape; Similarly, a light-colored posture will be clear on a dark background. 2. The expressive alternation of light and shade and harmonious tone level on the surface of the object can vividly represent the actual subject.