What are the factors that affect a good portrait photo?

The success or failure of portrait photography depends on four elements: scenery, people, light and plane position.

The scene of portrait photography is divided into five scenes: far, special, near, middle and full. Because the proportion of portraits in the foreground is very small, it is not easy to get outstanding performance. It is commonly used in landscape photography and rarely used in portrait photography.

The posture of the figure's body can express the emotion of the figure and enrich the expression form of the picture composition. The beauty of portrait photography is to express the beauty of characters and the beauty of picture situation through their body language. When shooting portraits, cleverly designing the beauty of the scene can create the beauty of the plot and artistic conception. Generally speaking, people's postures are divided into standing posture, sitting posture, lying posture, sports posture and so on.

Light plays an important role in shaping the three-dimensional sense of characters and the atmosphere of pictures. Under different light sources, the changes of light quality, light color and light level will make portraits behave differently. Let's take a look at the different performances of portraits under smooth light, side light, side backlight and backlight.

When representing portraits, the position of the camera is also very important, including shooting direction and shooting height. Different shooting directions will present different portraits on the front, side and back; Different shooting heights will show prone, flat and upward shooting angles. We can make the portrait more expressive by changing the camera angle.