Eight Skills of Shooting Beautiful Portraits in Summer

Although summer is hot, it is the most suitable season for outdoor shooting. It is not difficult to make a beautiful and romantic work. Let's pick up the camera in our hands and create beautiful and romantic portraits with the rhythm of summer!

1. Silhouettes in the sunset There are two common backlight shooting effects: one is the silhouette effect and the other is the "silhouette light" effect. Silhouette effect is an artistic photo in which the subject is placed in a bright background, and the exposure is based on highlights to make the background clear, and the subject forms a shadow outline due to serious underexposure. The exposure of silhouette is done by spot metering in the sky. The high light ratio and Gao Fancha enhance the backlight effect, achieve the purpose of outlining the clear outline of the subject and strengthening the subject, and have wonderful artistic modeling effect.

Second, create glare under the backlight. Under the backlight, the characters' hair will be more obvious, the edge line of the body will also be presented, and the presentation of the characters will be more vivid. At this time, we can try a more bold and innovative shooting method, that is, the sun will be included in the picture, so that not only mysterious high spots will appear in the picture, but also a series of dazzling lights may appear, which will make the picture have a special atmosphere.

Third, the high-profile image shows fresh temperament.

Choose a bright or pure white background to make the main character bright and elegant, deliberately submerge the bright part of the main body in the background, reasonably choose clothes to make the whole main body close to the color of the background, and make the shot work occupy most of the picture with white to light gray tones. In this way, you can take a lovely and beautiful photo with high value and fresh temperament! However, it should be noted that the choice of no more than three colors will affect the overall style of the work.

Fourth, the low-key image is full of artistic conception.

A low-key portrait should create a low and dim visual effect to express a feeling of depression or decadence. Of course, it can also create some mysterious or tasteful temperament. In the regional light environment, putting the characters in the position of light irradiation and using the sensitivity of the camera to increase the contrast between the characters and the dark background can achieve a charming low-key effect.

5. A long focal length lens that highlights the subject with focal length greatly compresses the positional relationship between the subject and the background and foreground, and shortens the distance between the subject and the viewer. At the same time, the depth of field is small when telephoto shooting, and the foreground and background are largely blurred. Therefore, if you want to use the contrast between the subject and the foreground and background to emphasize the subject, you often need to shoot through a telephoto lens.

6. The gesture capture of freeze-frame jump refers to the vivid moment of the character activity directly shot by the photographer without the knowledge of the subject. The combination of waving and grabbing means that in the whole shooting process, the subject knows that someone is taking pictures of himself, but does not say the specific shooting time, so that the subject's mood will be relaxed and the action will be more natural. After choosing the best angle and light, the photographer presses the shutter at an appropriate time.

Seven, fashionable Cos modeling

In recent years, Cosplay has become a new fashion trend. Cosplay refers to "role-playing" or "dressing up", and its rapid development is largely influenced by Japanese cartoons. When shooting Cosplay, try to make the shooting effect conform to the original imitation object. When shooting, you can shoot from different angles to achieve the desired picture effect. In the process of shooting, we should be good at the action style of The Imitation Game's prototype characters, and don't be too limited by composition.

Eight, the complementary life of color and black and white often sees black and white and color elements in a photo at the same time. If the black and white elements in the photo exist as the background, then the color elements in black and white will be particularly conspicuous. This shooting technique of using black and white background to set off color elements is called "color extraction". The first method is to choose black, white and gray background from the photography technique to highlight the models wearing colorful clothes; The second method is to use post-processing software to process the background outside the characters in the picture into black and white tones. In contrast, the effect of the first method is more natural.