Japanese portrait shooting skills

Lead: Portrait photography must have practical experience in order to grow and break through. Just looking at photos online and starting to practice, there are still some restrictions. Let's take a look at the demonstration.

Seasonal display: shooting the breath of spring

Simple and unified background color system makes it easier for models to jump out of the picture.

The collocation of clothes and scenes

In terms of clothing selection, it is suggested that players can start with pink when discussing the color system with models, such as white, light blue and yellow, and reduce the use of darker color systems, but players should first go to the shooting site to determine the overall color system matching effect. For example, in the CMP block of Qinmei Green Ring Road in this primary scene, the whole film is mainly blank with a light green background. Players can use pink clothes such as light blue or yellow, which can make the model's performance more conspicuous.

The 35mm visual field can capture the scene features with a sense of design into the image.

? Selected Scenes-Eslite Green Ring Road in Taichung

Located on the commonweal road in Taichung, Qinmei Eslite Lvyuan Road Park is not only the main building including Eslite Bookstore and Shopping Mall, but also a CMP block with rich design characteristics. The theme of painting Meng Zongzhu as a white column revolves around the green floor in the center. The surreal scene is quite suitable for portrait shooting.

Taichung Chengpin Lvyuan Road

If you want to take portraits here, you need to apply in advance. For general non-commercial use, you only need to apply at the service desk of B 1 five days before you can get the photo certificate on the day of shooting. For commercial purposes such as rackets and wedding dresses, besides applying in advance, you also need to pay a cleaning fee of about NT$ 700 yuan/hour. Opening hours are Monday to Friday 10:00? 20:00。

Shooting techniques and skills in actual combat

In order to present the relaxed and quiet fun of shooting, scene change and color matching, the overall faint air atmosphere is emphasized through retouching, paving the way for the breath of spring. Therefore, in the shooting composition, we choose to break away from the framework defined by the existing portrait shooting techniques, and will not be limited by the regular composition, so that the image is full of emotion. In the choice of lens, the focal length between 24 mm and 70 mm is often used, especially 35mm with small wide angle and 50mm close to human vision. I want to close the interaction distance with the model through the lens angle and shoot a happy face.

In order to quickly capture the expression and movement of the model in the process of action, it is particularly important to set the focus of the fuselage. It is suggested that the shutter can be set to continuous shooting and the focusing mode can be adjusted to continuous servo focusing, which can keep the focus on the model, make the composition and framing more flexible, and capture the favorite picture effect during the playback. In addition, in order to make the image more in line with the transparent air sense, players can appropriately adjust the EV value when shooting, and increase the measured value by 0.3~0.7EV to make the overall skin color whiter and more thorough, and convey the style of spring outing portraits.

With the help of small chairs, models can also play easily.

Seasonal light variation

In addition to the above skills, players should also effectively grasp the change of light when shooting. In the next season, although the sun will rise earlier and earlier, it will also set later and later, which will lengthen the sunshine time a lot. If you want to capture the beautiful light quality of oblique light, you may want to advance the daytime and arrange it in the late evening. From past experience, 8: 00 am ~10: 00 am and 4: 00 pm ~ 5: 30 pm will be the best shooting time. At this time, if you pay more attention to the direction of light and add a little atmosphere to the image through backlight and oblique light, I believe that even if it is only two or three hours, you can still take many images with good light quality and atmosphere.

Reducing the shooting angle can turn the flowers and plants in front into the foreground and improve the color quality of the image.

Lines can not only beautify the background in composition, but also highlight the expression and posture of the model.

Scenes such as sports fields or small parks often appear around the village, and players should integrate into the picture at the right time.

When capturing the running and jumping, it is suggested to manually focus to fix the shooting distance, move the shooting at equal distance, and continuously servo focus to continuous shooting, so that the dynamic shooting lines can better highlight the expression and posture of the model.

Swimming Shooting Guidance and Composition Essentials

In the way of guiding modeling, we mainly use body movements to interpret the overall composition, and tap the wonderful moments through the shooting process. So at the moment of shooting, most people will ask Model to stand in the set scene first, then tell Model the emotions and action patterns that need to be conveyed, and guide Model to put the actions in the planned direction in time, and even follow Model to walk back and forth for simple shooting, so as to capture the emotions naturally emitted by Model.

In composition, most people put portraits around the image, so that their horizons extend in the picture, showing a relaxed and enjoyable image. However, we can boldly try the central composition, try to break the myth that traditional portraits should not be composed in the center with the calm expression of the model, and focus on emotions to enrich the feeling of the whole image and make the picture more natural and interesting.

? ? A series of vivid and interesting expressions can always bring viewers rich and happy image feelings and make people feel happy.

? Selected Scenes-Zhongxing New Village in Nantou

Zhongxing New Village, located in Nantou, is one of the few remaining intact family villages in Taiwan Province Province. Because there are not too many residents in the whole street and there is not too much traffic interference, it is quite comfortable to walk. You can simply take charming photos in the alley, or you can just take photos around the sports ground. At present, due to the timing of spring, flowers are gradually blooming in Zhongxing New Village, which is easy for people to reach by car along National Highway No.3, suitable for players who want to capture the breath of spring.

Bougainvillea with long flowering period and dense blooming is one of the scenes that players can't miss.

A hundred flowers blossom in spring, so players must see the scenery clearly before shooting and seize the opportunity to shoot.

Editing and post-production skills of editing images

Among the Japanese colors that most players prefer, there is a faint sense of transparent air. In fact, most of these images are in the form of original files. Through the selection of color temperature and the adjustment of contrast saturation, and finally through fine-tuning some colors, we can easily grasp the smell of colors and give people a Japanese sketch image.

To process this kind of image, we should first reduce the overall color temperature to about 4000K, so that the image is slightly biased towards the light blue-green system, and then continue to edit the whole image with this as the primary color. Then, we will reduce the contrast and increase the brightness, which will make the light and dark parts of the picture more uniform, and increasing the brightness will make the image accompanied by white air. Finally, we will adjust the saturation appropriately to make the brightness and chromaticity of the image look better in the imaging presentation, and that's it.

Elegant Japanese colors can always bring a comfortable sense of image to the audience.

Original original file image.

Adjust the color temperature of the image to about 4000K to make the image appear light blue style.

And the contrast decreases and the saturation increases, showing a basic Japanese feeling.

Finally, after proper color adjustment, comfortable Japanese images can be easily edited.