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How to take good portrait photography, learn these seven points.

1, light and composition of portrait photography

2.V-shaped composition can make the subject stand out in a group of people, and V-shaped composition blurs the prospect.

3. Triangular composition refers to dividing the picture into three parts horizontally, and each sub-center can be put together with the main form. This composition is suitable for multi-modality parallel focusing subjects. It can also represent large space, small objects, and vice versa. This composition is vivid and concise. It can be used in different scenes such as close range. This is a simplified version of the golden section.

4. The diagonal composition is brisk and lively, which makes full use of the length of the picture frame, but it is easy to produce a sense of instability. Therefore, the requirements for the subject matter are relatively high, and not all diagonal compositions are successful. Moreover, because diagonal lines tend to produce a sense of separation in the picture, packaging treatment is often needed.

5, different angles of artificial light irradiation effect

6. Illuminate your "object" with a reflector. Many reflectors have two sides. You can choose white, silver or gold reflective surfaces. The white reflector can double soften the strong sunlight. No reflector? Try it with a blank sheet of paper. ...

7, correct exposure, the camera's metering system plays a vital role in shooting, it can calculate how much light should enter the camera to correctly expose. Auto focus is sometimes great, but it is not necessarily foolproof. For example, in the extreme shooting environment, the calculation of the camera is completely different from what you want to achieve (white skin or clothing will make up for the underexposure of the machine, which is quite common in wedding photography).