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What are the advantages of portrait photography?

Portrait photography not only captures the appearance of a person, but also captures their personality.

Portrait photography is (styling) photography that uses the appearance of film and television characters to express their temperament. It is both an image of a character and a story about the character.

The shooting angle is directly related to the perfection of the portrait: a slightly higher angle can make a thin person a little plumper; a slightly lower angle can make a fat person a little more delicate; a person with too square cheeks can It is better to shoot from the side; if the cheekbones are too high, it is better to shoot straight up; if the nose is too high, it is not suitable to shoot from the side; if the facial structure is flat, it is not suitable to shoot from the front. In order to make the portraits fully reflect the characters' personalities, we must also pay attention to the close-ups, close-ups, medium shots, and panoramic shots of the characters and the scene scheduling in the film and television, as well as the plot of the entire film and television teaching materials, and combine the atmosphere, tone, spatial status, etc. , landscape environment and character shots are combined.