Learn to use structure to make beautiful portraits.

Lead: For beginners, when taking portrait photos, in addition to practicing observing the posture of the light source and the model, composition is also a very important element, especially when traveling or taking photos on the street. Composition can make your photos more and more profound. Let's take a look at the basic composition skills of portrait shooting!

Learn to take good-looking portraits with composition. When taking portraits, novices often ask some questions:

Portrait should be wrapped in a photo?

Do you want to include the whole body when shooting?

Where should I put the face in the photo?

Is the portrait big or small?

In fact, photography is an art, so composition is basically necessary although there are many rules to learn. As long as you feel suitable as a photographer at that time, you can take photos at will, even if you only see half a face or have no head or feet, as long as you match the artistic conception, it can also be an attractive and good photo.

Different composition methods of portrait shooting

(A) the number of background factors

It is often said that a photo represents a story, and there should be a protagonist and a supporting role in the story. The protagonist should be the main object to be photographed, while the supporting role is the surrounding environment, other people and things. A good supporting actor can not only enrich photos, but also complete a story. How much background a photo should contain depends on the story you want to express!

Small portraits with multiple backgrounds can express the effect of children going to the big world ▼

The portrait is of moderate size and the background is better to tell the story: Does it really seem that many friends support her ▼

Even if you only shoot the profile, the surrounding environment will have a great influence on the overall feeling of the photo ▼

? Therefore, when taking portrait photos, you might as well consider the cooperation of the background, and don't blindly pursue large aperture and shallow depth of field, otherwise the photos will become the same.

(2) Close combination

One of the skills of portrait shooting is to organize a close composition. Usually this method focuses on the outline or expression of the subject's face, and the photo will be full of pressure. Therefore, if your subject's face is prominent, you can try to increase the tension of the photo by this method.

(C) Blanking art

Is it more artistic to integrate the characters into the environment? ▼?

trigonometry

The famous "three-point method" is also commonly used in portrait composition. When using the above shooting techniques, you have a good chance to encounter the "three-point method". You must grasp this skill!

? postscript

Nowadays, many cinematographers also meet models for location shooting, but if they want to take emotional portrait photos, they should avoid the sameness of each one and only put on different models. After reading the composition skills above, try to take a portrait like this next time!