What does it mean to avoid using large flat light when taking frontal portraits?

The aesthetic modeling of portrait photography is unique to commercial portrait photography. The audience of commercial portrait photography is customers. Because most customers want to take good-looking photos, photographers need to make full use of shooting angles, props environment, lighting modeling and other means to beautify customers. In commercial portrait photography, the beauty of characters should be determined according to the following aspects:

First, the customer's temperament type A person's temperament is a comprehensive reflection of experience, literacy and living conditions. After seeing and contacting customers, photographers should have a general classification of customers' temperament, such as some customers are lively and cheerful, some customers are quiet and dignified, and some customers are noble and elegant. When designing for a quiet and dignified guest, the facial expression should be implicit, the shape of limbs and body should not change much, and the posture of the characters should be static.

Second, the external characteristics of customers In portrait photography, we generally pay attention to the five senses and body characteristics. Different facial features have different aesthetic forms of customers. Generally, the customers we shoot have more or less the lack of facial features and the imperfection of body shape. In this respect, aesthetic shapes should be different:

1, Forehead Protrusion: When shooting, please bend the subject's chin upward. Or design the hands, hair, etc. of the subject. Cover his forehead.

2. Fat face: When shooting, let the subject half face the camera. Take a frontal portrait and avoid using flat light.

3. Face-lifting type: When shooting, let the subject's face face the camera, the plane is bright and the brightness is low. Don't let the facial cheekbones or cheekbones of the characters stand out in the frame.

4, nose is not correct: when shooting, let the subject face the camera half or side. Face to face shooting

5, high nose: when shooting, let the subject face the camera, flat and soft light.

6, concave nose: When shooting, let the subject face the camera and adopt the front position, which is best to produce highlights on the nose of the character.