Photography skills of beach portrait

Lead: The seaside is a place suitable for shooting beautiful artistic portraits. When we stand on the beach and look closely, there are either golden beaches or rugged rocks, coconut wind and waves. Looking into the distance, the sea is blue, white clouds are blossoming, seagulls are flying, and the sails are a little bit, as if you can get a romantic and beautiful picture with just a pat. Let's see how to shoot portraits on the beach.

First, the theme? Romantic and beautiful

When we want to express a lyrical and romantic theme, we can let the model walk on the beach, the sea breeze blows the skirt, the wind seems to drift with the tide, and the waves roll, symbolizing the long-simmering emotion.

When we want to show the tropical customs, we can let the models put on bikinis, play and run on the beach or among the flowers, and rejuvenate their lives.

When we want to express sadness and depression, we can let the characters stand barefoot and lie on the rocks. The delicate body of women is in sharp contrast with the hard rock, and the white skin is in sharp contrast with the dark rock surface, which leaves a deep impression.

Second, the beach? It's not just the beach and the sea.

When creating on the beach, our eyes are usually attracted by the blue sea, and the works we shoot are often waves and beaches of the same color. It is true that the sea is beautiful, but there are more works showing the sea and blue sky, which makes readers easily feel aesthetic fatigue. In order to make the work more innovative, why don't we find another way to see the beach from different angles?

? Plants:

Tropical plants on the seashore, because of abundant water and warm climate, usually grow very luxuriantly, either with huge size or full of momentum. More importantly, they are three-dimensional scenes, which are easy to blend in with the characters.

? Reef:

The hardness of the reef is easy to contrast with the weakness of women, which increases the visual impact of the picture; Its changeable shape can also enrich the composition of the picture.

? Sea breeze:

The long hair blown by the wind highlights the charm of women, symbolizing complex mood and tangled feelings, while the skirt lifted by the wind can make the picture full of movement and get rid of boredom.

Third, fill the light? An indispensable job

The sunshine at the seaside is strong, and the seawater is a reflective material, so the figure and the sea surface will form a larger light ratio, which will cause great trouble to the photographer in his actual creation. It can be said that the seaside is one of the most difficult scenes to shoot with natural light. There are two main ways to solve this problem:

1, select the shooting time.

Every morning or evening, due to the color temperature, the light will form a more obvious hue tendency, which is especially suitable for expressing a certain emotion.

Before ten o'clock, or from four o'clock in the afternoon to evening, the light is softer and will not form a stiff shadow. At this time, the light is no longer the top light. Under a certain angle formed by the sun and the ground, the characters appear three-dimensional and layered.

2, use tools to fill the light:

When backlighting, the function of supplementary light is to reduce the light ratio between high-light places such as sea surface and sky and people. Of course, when shooting at the seaside, Guang Shun will also be used, but it is generally limited to early morning and evening. At this time, Guang Shun can naturally consider people and the environment. However, its shortcomings are also obvious: when the sun is strong, it will sting the model and make her unable to open her eyes, and the dim light will easily lead to the dullness of the picture.

Backlight or side backlight is a common way of portrait lighting, which truly reflects the magic of light and shadow? The crystal hair brought by the beautiful side light, the ever-changing highlights and shadows formed by the environment, and the projection of people on the ground, the model will never show awkward eyes because of the strong light again? But under the backlight and side backlight, if we don't pay attention to the supplementary light and reduce the light ratio between the characters and the background, can't we have the best of both worlds? When we measure the light on the sea surface to make the seawater exposure normal, the face of the character will darken, while when we make the face of the character expose normal, the seawater will turn white and lose details.

The tools to fill the light are flash and reflector, and I prefer reflector. It is convenient to carry and use, and because of the large light source, the reflected light will be softer, which is suitable for taking good-looking portraits. When filling the characters with light, the amount of light should be sufficient, so that the sea surface can be darkened and the level of the sea can be photographed. How much to make up? This requires us to take more photos at the scene and find a suitable exposure combination. Fortunately, now is the era of digital cameras, that is, there is a lens, and the effect is clear at a glance.

Fourth, extreme scenes and extreme focus clips.

Do you usually use more lenses when shooting beach scenes? Extreme? One is long and the other is short.

The use of wide-angle lens:

1. If you want to show the youthful vitality and sexy fire of bikini MM, you can consider a wide-angle lens and use its perspective distortion to shoot a picture full of tension.

2, the performance of large rocks, vast seascape, you have to use a wide-angle lens.

Use of telescope head:

1. If you want to shoot a lyrical and beautiful picture, you can blur the sea into a blue sky with a telephoto lens.

? 2. The telephoto lens has the visual effect of shortening the vertical object distance, which can form a close relationship between key scenes and distant people and make the picture more concise.

Fifth, take care of your weapons.

Filming at the seaside is stormy and windy. Please take care of your equipment.

? Remember to turn off the power of the camera when changing the lens. Rechargeable digital cameras are no different from vacuum cleaners, and they will inhale a lot of dust. Using zoom lens is a good way to reduce the frequency of changing lenses.

? When changing the lens, you can squat down and block the wind with your back. The removed lens should be closed immediately. If it's too late, the rear lens without UV mirror protection should face away from the wind. Because the beach reef group is uneven, when replacing the lens, it must be ensured that the lens has been placed stably, otherwise the lens will roll off the reef and fall into the salty sea water, with great loss.

? Pay attention to the waves when shooting at low altitude by the sea. The location where the waves appear is uncertain. Maybe this wave only hits your feet, and the next wave will rush to your camera. Reflective boards, clothes, props and other items placed on the beach are best pressed with heavy objects to prevent them from being blown away by the wind or wet by rising seawater.