Support newcomers to use their eyes in front of the camera.

The importance of eyes to portrait photography is self-evident. Eyes do reflect the inner feelings of the characters' inner activities. Innocent eyes, pure and flawless; Kind eyes, gentle and kind, friendly to others; Mediocre eyes are superficial and empty

From the eyes, we can clearly understand a person's style, bearing, manners, accomplishment, nerve type and the whole facial expression, so that the whole body behaves and moves. When describing a person's appearance, such expressions are often used, such as "radiant", "pale and absent-minded", "affectionate" or "low eyebrows and anger". It is not difficult to find out after careful analysis that all of them are actually talking about eyes. "Radiant" mainly refers to the "light" transmitted by human eyes.

In portrait photography, if you want to make a person's eyes have charm and charm, it depends on the eye light, which is the image of the lighting source reflected by the person's eyes.

There are many ways to model eye light, among which three methods are commonly used: point light source modeling, soft box modeling and reflector modeling.

point light source modeling method: it is to use tungsten lamp and other point light sources to illuminate lamps and lanterns, so as to create one or more points of eye light, and its shape is bright "points". When the character's eyes are only a little light, try to point it slightly above the black eye. If the point is too wide or too low, the character's eyes will appear scattered. Point light source eyes make eyes look sharp and sharp, which is beneficial to show dignified eyes. Confident and powerful.

Soft box modeling method: The use of soft boxes causes bright spots with definite shapes, such as rectangles, in characters' eyes, so that the characters' eyes have a better three-dimensional effect, and their eyes are more hazy and full of charm. This modeling method is extremely common in business portraits.

reflector modeling method: When shooting portraits with backlight or backlight outdoors in sunny conditions, and shooting portraits with scattered light in gloomy weather, we can all use the reflector to model the eye light, and we can all use the reflector to model the eye light, which makes the original dull picture more lively.

Of course, the amount of eye light is easy to be too much, and the brightness should be appropriate, not too bright, otherwise the charm of the eyes will be lost. In many photos, the characters' eyes have become two crystal clear "glass balls". This kind of eye illumination method is easy to give people an impression of absence and vulgarity, and it is even more impossible to express the characters' inner feelings and personality characteristics. In addition, it is necessary to pay attention to the same number of eye spots in both eyes, otherwise it will easily give people the impression that the subject's eyes are defective and destroy the character image. At the same time, in shooting, you should try to mobilize the subject's eyes to have a certain rotation, don't just look at the camera in the middle, and let the audience feel that the characters you are shooting are also "looking" with vivid eyes, thus reflecting the vitality of the characters in the painting.

When expressing eyes, many people ignore an important factor-eyebrows. Xun Huisheng said: "Look at it, there are three eyebrows!" In fact, it is important at any time. The ancients said, "Two spring mountains are full of worries", and "Two spring mountains" refers to eyebrows. If this "two spring mountains" is really missing, what god is there? In short, eyebrows and eyes are inseparable. Eyebrows can help the eyes "speak".