How to take a good portrait at dusk?

"The sunset is infinitely beautiful and buried by the coming night", which is a beautiful poem left by the ancients. For outdoor portraits, it is also a very good time to shoot around sunset, and you can shoot satisfactory works at this time.

When shooting portraits at dusk, the first thing to pay attention to is exposure. Before and after sunset, the intensity of solar light is obviously weakened, which may have some influence on exposure. Therefore, when shooting portraits at dusk, try to use a larger aperture. Of course, if you have to use a small aperture in order to obtain a large depth of field, you must reduce the shutter speed or provide an ISO photosensitive finger. In order to take a portrait photo at dusk with a large aperture.

The second problem to pay attention to is the direction of light. When shooting a portrait at dusk along the light, the light is softer and more natural, and the ideal soft light photo effect can be obtained, which makes the portrait photography at sunset more beautiful and moving.

Vertical composition shooting leg close-up

Shooting running legs in motion, the visual effect of this picture is very strong, even better than shooting the whole body.

Cover one's face with gestures

It is inevitable that the face is monotonous, and gestures can be used to enrich the picture. For example, the beauty in the photo below inadvertently pulls open the hair blown by the north wind, and the picture will be very smart.

Close-up expression

The more shots of a part, the more shocking the effect, and attract the audience's attention at the first time.

Close-up facial expression

For example, put your index finger on your temple and put on a painful expression to increase the interest of the picture.

If you shoot in backlight, you need to fill the face of the person. Overhead flash is a good choice. At this time, the sun's light is very weak. If you use a reflector, it may not have much effect. If the sun is still shining, you can deliberately overexpose it a little, so that your face will not be so dark.

The third problem to pay attention to is the yellowing of photos. Due to the warm light at dusk, the photos taken will look very yellow. This kind of yellow, some people like this feeling of dusk, if not, can be solved by the following methods. We can adjust the white balance or saturation setting appropriately. After reducing the saturation, the photo will not look so yellow.