Self-training of portrait photographers?

As a photographer, how can I take better photos? How can we constantly improve ourselves? The following are some I have compiled for your reference.

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Self-training of portrait photographers?

As a photographer, how can I take better photos? How can we constantly improve ourselves? The following are some I have compiled for your reference.

Number one: Know yourself.

There are many ways to learn photography, in fact, they all contain a primary purpose-to help you know yourself correctly.

The so-called photography level must include various elements related to portrait photography. Together with your inspiration and talent, these elements constitute the overall level of photography. According to the "barrel theory" that we are familiar with, how much water a barrel holds is determined by the shortest board-similarly, in shooting, it is likely that you have shown an extraordinary aura in some aspects and played quite well, but it is often those links that you are unfamiliar with or ignore that ultimately affect and limit the overall level. What model do you use? Do you have a good cooperation with the makeup artist? Are you comfortable with the camera language? Do you often feel at a loss when facing the computer? ..... What you often ignore or even think is irrelevant is exactly what you need to learn and supplement most.

It is likely that you have realized that portrait photography today is not as simple as pressing the shutter on the model. It is a real systematic project, and the final level of the work depends on the level of each link. If you want to be a professional or professional photographer, you must grasp all the links and form a complete process. The level of this process is your photography level. To improve the level, we must start from all aspects of the process. Even if you have taken a good work or won such an award, it is obvious that you have not reached the standard of a real professional photographer before the whole process is established.

The second point: technology and means.

The more things you master, the more information you can interpret in a work: in the face of a portrait work, a layman can only see beautiful models and feel the appeal of the picture; As a photographer, you can obviously analyze many factors, such as model, makeup, modeling, clothing collocation, scene setting, lens language, composition skills, instantaneous and dynamic, color application and post-adjustment, makeup and panel processing, and find out which links are excellent and worth learning and learning from, and which ones are just general or have certain defects. Keep this habit of analysis and observation. At first, many elements may be intertwined and very complicated. However, as your level is getting higher and higher, more things will become simple and clear in your eyes. At this time, you may be able to see at a glance what is the most critical element contained in a work.

Any excellent work is based on a complete and effective workflow, which is formed by one or several links giving full play to their functions. It often happens that a photographer's workflow is incomplete or obviously lacking, but with the excellent performance of a certain link, he can also form a work-however, such a work often inevitably makes people feel a little lack of professionalism; There are also a few very successful photographers' works, which may have reached a high level in all aspects of the process-it is certainly not easy to reach such a level, which makes people realize that the improvement of the level will not happen overnight.

For a photographer who just started, learning from and imitating is the most direct and quickest way to improve his level. Portrait photography has many objective conditions as the premise. Therefore, even if you want to completely "copy" a work, it is impossible in most cases, so you don't have to worry that your work looks "like" a famous photographer at a certain stage.

For cutting-edge photographers, most of them are still in the first state we described: they have a basically complete and effective workflow and have excellent performance in one or two aspects. Because of this, their works have the most direct reference value for most people.