How to shoot creative male portraits in low light?

In many low-light photography contents, women are introduced to photography skills, and men's low-light photography skills are rarely mentioned. To this end, we share an article about men's low-light photography skills to help you shoot creative portraits in low-light environment.

1. Choose many corners of colored lights in the background, so that you can get beautiful and colorful scattering scenes.

During the New Year, shops, streets and trees will be lit with colorful lights. Try to find a corner with a lot of colorful light in the background, and then shoot with a large aperture, or a semi-telephoto or telephoto lens, such as

45mm, 65mm, 100mm, you will get beautiful and colorful scattered scenes, and the image will look very soft.

2. Use the corner of the light to create an atmosphere, so that the male portrait photos look masculine, considerate and warm.

Without props, lighting will create a feeling, add atmosphere and look luxurious or warm. The shooting angle close to the lamp also helps to shape a character and make the male portrait photos look thoughtful or considerate.

3. Create a portrait shooting mode by projecting a still image or movie onto an object.

By projecting a still image or a moving image onto an object using a projector, a portrait pattern can be easily created. In order to make it look more playful in the picture, the picture arrangement looks more interesting.

With the help of sofa and colorful lights, you can make a portrait into a young playboy, even a little playful.

If you have a sofa, with the help of clothes, props and colors in the picture, you can create an atmosphere, guide the audience's feelings and feel the feelings that the photographer wants you to feel. You can take a handsome image of a group of playboy brothers, or you can take a photo with distinctive personality.

In the corner, with the help of the word light bulb on the store billboard as the background.

Shop advertisements use the colors and characters of shop signs as the background to create visual interest. Some banners are cool words or decorated with words and pictures. These signs can be used to help create a picture to tell a story and get a beautiful and interesting picture.

6. Use telephoto lens to shoot complex angle details in the background. Blur the background, but you can still see what the background is and where it is.

In principle, the background in portrait photography should not be too complicated, but if you want to tell a story from the background, some shots need a complicated background, but use a telephoto lens or a large aperture to blur the background, so as not to disturb and attract too much attention, but still give the same meaning and story.

7. Take photos in the car and use the fill light to create colors to make the photos look more interesting.

If you can't go out on rainy days, take a photo in the car at home. Use colorful lights, water droplets, atomization or water spray to add effects to the patterns in the image, spray water into the glass to produce water droplets, and then use multi-color fill light to create emotions and atmosphere in the picture. You can choose the color of the light according to your needs to create the atmosphere of the picture.

8. Show the light bulbs in various stores and take profile photos of people.

The lighting of the showcase in front of the store is also a good place to take pictures. Facing the light source, let the light shine on the portrait's face. The light helps the portrait photos to look better.

9. Choose the angle of the sidewalk or road behind the male portrait.

This angle is easy to find on city streets. The lights of shops, bright street lamps and the lights from cars that often drive can create perspective images, which can attract users to understand the pictures in depth, and take the male portrait as the protagonist of the story, which way to take the portrait.

10. At the corner of the bridge railing, there is a fence with lights at the back to make the picture look three-dimensional, and extra lights or flash lights are used to shine in front to make the portrait photos more prominent.

In the corner of the bridge railing, sitting on the fence or leaning against the wall, choose a corner with backlight, and you will get a beautiful and scattered view. At the same time, illuminating the front of the portrait with auxiliary lights or flash lights will make the face clearer and the body look clearer and more prominent.