How to highlight the subject in portrait photography?

For portrait photography, people are not only the center of the picture content, but also the center of the picture structure, and other scenery should form a whole around this center. So the most important thing to pay attention to when shooting is how to highlight the characters.

What is a simple composition? For beginners, the easiest way to highlight the characters is to find a relatively simple and clean background, such as a white wall and a piece of green grass, so that photographers only need to focus on the characters without worrying about the failure of the photos caused by the bad relationship between the characters and the background.

Choose a simple background

The faint blue sky is a symbol of good weather. Using the blue sky as the background to shoot portraits can better highlight people.

Large aperture blurs the background and highlights people.

Using large aperture can blur the complex background into beautiful color blocks, thus highlighting human characteristics.

Simple background and prominent characters

Shooting people at the seaside can make them more relaxed, and taking pictures while playing can get better results.

Photographic attention

In addition to choosing a simple background when shooting, there is another way to simplify the more complicated background. One of the most effective and commonly used methods is to blur the background with a large aperture. Background removal removes seemingly complicated and chaotic things, thus clearly setting off the characters in the picture. In addition, more is the choice of shooting angle. Observe the surrounding shooting environment carefully and keep moving the camera in your hand. Only in this way can there be more shooting angles and a clean and tidy shooting background be obtained.

Use tone contrast

Through the contrast of hue, the purpose is to distinguish the hue of the subject and the background, so as to highlight the subject. Usually, darker subjects can be deliberately placed in a bright background, and lighter subjects can be placed in a darker background. Choose the bright lotus and the dark Beijing, and deliberately contrast the light and shade to make the main body more prominent.

The contrast between virtual and reality

Using the depth of field, the subject is clear, and the foil or background before and after is blurred, because in the case of blurred surrounding scenery, the clear subject may appear more prominent and naturally attract people's attention. The method of producing this effect is also very simple.

Close up form

Highlighting the subject in the form of close-ups, so that the subject occupies most of the picture, or even covers the whole picture, will attract the attention of the viewer and make the theme clear at a glance. Its technical means is to use a telephoto lens or the subject is close, and it can also be done through screenshots.