Portrait Photography Techniques-Partial Portrait Composition Techniques

Traditional portrait photography can be divided into environmental portrait photography and portrait photography, but we also have a third way: highlighting the eyes, nose, mouth and other parts of the portrait to create vivid and charming partial portraits.

Partial portrait shooting may allow you to obtain subtle, interesting or more artistic portrait photos. First of all, we try not to limit ourselves to post-production "cropping" methods that can achieve a variety of results. We first learn to use photography well to obtain the ideal effect. To take a partial picture with feelings, you might as well try the following methods.

1. Look for distinctive and beautiful parts. Partial portraits can still clearly depict and express the image, the appearance and demeanor of the subject. When you use the lens to observe the subject, you will definitely find beautiful and distinctive local images.

2. Keep it blank and concise. Simplicity is the only rule for taking such photos. Keep the background as clean as possible and use simple, soft light. At the same time, a better way to create visual impact is to crop based on the central axis of your subject's face, leaving the rest blank.

3. Blur the background with a large aperture. Enlarge the aperture to shoot and reduce the depth of field. Then you can capture the hazy background and highlight the subject. The key at this time is to determine where the focus of the photo is. On which part. Sometimes, focusing on a position that no one else thinks is the center of the picture will yield unexpected results!

4. Bold Cropping If you don’t have enough confidence to take a satisfactory partial photo, you can still Enlarge the shooting range, and then use image processing software to process it, or directly shoot several parts of interest evenly to ensure the success rate.