Couple photo shooting skills

Lead: Tired of stereotyped couples taking photos? Tired of looking at pictures of artificial couples? How to take creative, beautiful and unique couple photos? This article will teach you to take a wonderful couple photo from the perspective of scene selection!

First, location shooting

1, urban environment

Environment: When taking photos of couples in the city, we usually choose some modern urban street scenes, architectural environment and public facilities to set off the protagonist. The urban environment is complex, the characters are messy, and the light is single. Outdoor lighting, hot shoe flash, dome light flash and other lighting equipment can be used. In the use of light, you can choose side light, measure backlight to make the layering between couples more delicate and more textured, and use some profile light appropriately to play a decorative role. It is natural to pay attention to the control of light ratio and keep the light atmosphere of the environment when shooting.

Shooting: I can choose the medium telephoto lens as the main lens, which can not only highlight the rendering and contrast of the environment to the protagonist, but also have a strong three-dimensional sense and a fuzzy and messy background to highlight the protagonist. Emphasize the visual center of the picture.

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2. Natural environment

Environment: Take common forests as an example. In the use of light, we should pay attention to the flexible use of light in the case of more trees. In general, you should bring auxiliary light source, portable flashlight and reflector. Because the vegetation is dense, the natural light will be dim, so we need to temporarily fill the light or reflect light. In the environment of broad vision, we should choose the right time period. Generally, we should pay attention to the shooting theme in the control of light ratio.

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In this environment, taking a photo of a couple on location is naturally refreshing, so the use of costume props can't be too bad. To meet the theme of the shooting scene, you can properly prepare some flowers and the like to assist the beautiful shape of the characters.

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Shooting: we usually use wide-angle and medium-focus lenses on the lens, which can blur the background and highlight the characters; It can also bring a wide range of environment into the picture, so that the environment echoes the characters.

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3. Waterscape shooting

Environment: In the location shooting of couples, water features include lakes, seas, rivers and streams. Generally speaking, location shooting by the water pays more attention to romantic, aesthetic and lively forms. In the use of light, soft light can be used to balance the contrast between people and water on cloudy days, and external flash can also be used, but attention should be paid to the control of light ratio, not too strong.

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Shooting: People can wear light clothes or swimsuits. When shooting on the beach, you can choose a combination of natural liveliness or beautiful artistic conception, which can highlight people's liveliness and romance. Sometimes the footprints on the beach can also be used as the foreground in the picture, which makes the couple's photo shooting more creative.

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Wide-angle lens can be used to shoot couples with seascape, because couples with seascape are more suitable for romantic and aesthetic styles. The characteristics of wide-angle lens conform to this factor, including the blue sky and white clouds in the seascape picture, which makes the overall feeling of the photo more natural and harmonious.

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Second, indoor shooting

1, monochrome background shooting

Environment: The overall characteristics of shooting couples in indoor monochrome background are clean and easy to control. There are many forms of indoor composition, we can use symmetry, triangle and so on. In terms of light, three-dimensional lighting method, plane lighting method or mixed lighting method can be used.

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Shooting: We can take photos of couples indoors with standard lens or medium focal length lens. This kind of lens is close to the normal angle of view, real and natural, and is also suitable for photographers to capture instantaneous action when shooting dynamically.

2, indoor environment photos

Environment: The emotional environment of couples' photos in the indoor environment has an influence on the characters. When shooting, we should not only highlight the warm or romantic feeling between couples, but also integrate the background with the characters to play a role in contrast and rendering. For example, when taking photos of couples in bars and bedrooms, unique choices play a vital role. In different composition forms, the background can also echo with the main body, which has a symmetrical, balanced and harmonious effect. In actual shooting, we can use the background environment to reflect the spatial relationship between lovers and the background, or use the area contrast, distance contrast and light-dark contrast between them to highlight the sense of space between them, so that the overall effect of the picture is more stereoscopic and vivid.

Shooting: The lighting of couples in the indoor environment should be selected according to the environment, but the overall lighting should be based on the scene, and the atmosphere should not be destroyed, such as shooting in a bar. If you take photos of couples in indoor environment, you can choose a medium focal length lens, which is beneficial to highlight people and blur the background, so that the visual focus in the picture can be reflected to the subject.