How to shoot the portrait blur effect?

In portrait photography, there are various ways of expression, both realistic and freehand. Especially when shooting girls, photographers like to express themselves in an aesthetic style, which is also favored by most people. In the expression of aesthetic style, shooting hazy and beautiful figures is also one of the methods of aesthetic style. So how can portrait photography capture hazy beauty?

To capture the hazy beauty is actually to use masks, including the mask of the lens and the mask of the subject. The following are some personal understandings of the hazy beauty shooting method, for reference only:

Method 1: Blur the foreground and background with a large aperture.

Because the effect of shallow depth of field can be shot by using a large aperture, the subject is shot clearly and the foreground background is blurred by means of foreground occlusion and background blurring, thus showing the hazy beauty of reality and reality.

Method 2: Use backlight to shoot.

In the case of good lighting conditions, we can use the backlight to shoot, which feels a little overexposed, so that the light can cover the characters in the backlight like gauze and form a hazy visual effect.

Method 3: Cover the lens with a plastic bag.

This method is also a common and simple method, that is, punching a small hole in the plastic bag on the lens, forming a transparent film in front of the lens, and focusing on the characters with the hole in the middle, you can also take a hazy effect. Of course, vaseline and leaves can also be painted on the UV mirror.

Method 4: Use post-treatment.

Use post-processing methods to achieve a hazy effect, such as adding a fuzzy foreground with PS, thus forming a looming effect and achieving a hazy aesthetic effect.

In short, to shoot hazy beauty, we mainly use masks to shoot. There are many ways to mask, such as covering the lens with props and covering the characters with the foreground. According to the shooting situation, choose the masking method.