How to learn to take good-looking photos?

Good-looking photos can give people a pleasant feeling and make people feel comfortable after seeing them. Everyone wants to take good-looking photos, whether on the road or in daily life. So here are a few tips to help you learn to take good-looking photos quickly:

First, learn the teaching of shooting skills on various network platforms

First of all, we should learn some good photography ideas, clever composition, advanced color matching, posing when shooting people, shooting angle and so on. In fact, these can be learned on all major platforms without being too professional. Let's share a series of shooting techniques:

1, good idea to take pictures

No idea of taking pictures? Think about the seasons, environment and resources you have. For example, it's summer now, how can we take interesting photos in summer? Do you want to play in the sea or swim in the swimming pool? Besides, I happen to have my own girlfriend to take with me. We can kill two birds with one stone by taking photos and playing together.

2. Clever composition

There are many composition methods, such as symmetrical composition, bisector composition, diagonal composition, frame composition and so on.

What kind of composition does it belong to?

3, advanced color matching

According to the main color, color matching and gradation of photos, color matching according to the environment.

4. Don't pose awkwardly when shooting people.

Learn more, watch more and practice more.

Step 5 change the shooting angle

A good shooting angle can give people a novel feeling. Here is a quote from the eight-character formula shared by a photographer:

(1) Gao: Usually we communicate with people at eye level. If we take pictures at eye level, we will lack freshness.

Find some commanding heights and take pictures of the characters. Protrusion can make the face smaller and make the picture more intimate. Of course, sister paper will also play better (after all, most of the selfies in their circle of friends are looking up at the camera at a 45-degree angle)

Ps: For models with larger heads, pay attention to those with larger heads.

(2) handstand: When you stand high enough, try the word "handstand".

Turning the characters upside down will have a short-term visual impact. At the same time, because the characters are upside down, flaws in expression and posture can be well avoided ... because in people's cognition, characters are fat and thin, beautiful and ugly, but they are actually watching)

Ps: Pay attention to safety when standing high!

(3) Turn: Although sometimes the scene will be small and limited, don't just stand from one angle. As photographers, we can walk around and change from one side to the other.

You can also try to turn the model around and go around to the other side of the scene (sometimes we feel that there is no angle, and the final reason is that we are too lazy to walk)

Turn around the subject more, and there will always be unexpected gains.

(4) framing: We can use some occlusion in the scene to remove some useless parts of the composition (such as avoiding the parts that may be overexposed in the picture), so as to frame the main body of the character and highlight the main body.

(5) Cutting: Remember that group pictures can be changed, and we don't need to take a full picture of the people in each picture. Proper cutting of the head and face can not only highlight the body movements, but also enrich the language of the picture and highlight the emotions.

Of course, it is not recommended to use the section formula in the early stage of shooting. On the one hand, it may be limited by the nearest focal length of the lens, and on the other hand, we'd better leave some cutting space in the later stage.

(6) No: In a group of portraits, don't look at the camera in every photo. Sometimes it is more suitable to express the emotions of the characters without looking at the camera.

In addition, taking more local close-ups or matching pictures of scenes and props can enrich our later group pictures and can also be used as puzzles.

(7) Use: The props bought in advance can achieve good results by combining some actions or occlusion of the model. A model's hand is the best prop whenever and wherever.

(8) Low: Low formula corresponds to high formula. Since high angles are rare, low angles are rare and novel. (After all, I usually don't squat and chat with others. )

When shooting with the "low" formula, it is best not to let the model face the camera, because it is easy to have double chins.

Second, cultivate observation consciousness and improve aesthetic ability.

If you want to learn photography better, you need to consciously cultivate your observation consciousness in your life, and at the same time you need to improve your aesthetic ability and let yourself have a pair of photographer's eyes.

? Here I want to share some of my thoughts, and I must pay more attention to browsing some photography websites. At the beginning of photography, you should imitate more optimistic photos, so that you can get some inspiration and improve your aesthetic ability, and you can get to know some excellent photographers, which is of great significance to your study and improvement. In addition, you can also buy some well-rated picture books, which may be a little expensive, but they are very useful to improve your aesthetic ability in early photography, but it is not recommended for novices to buy them, and the cost performance is not too high.

? Finally, I emphasize to you that photography must be practiced, and it is not necessary to have good equipment and beautiful scenery. You must practice more, observe more and sum up more. As you practice more and more, your aesthetic ability will gradually improve and your temperament will be greatly improved. I'm sure your persistence will pay off.

? The last paragraph is taken from Sakowski's words: the history of photography is not so much a journey as a growth, and its process is not linear and continuous, but centrifugal. Photography, and our understanding of it, spreads from the center and penetrates into our consciousness through immersion. Photography is like an organism, it was born as a whole, and its history exists in our constant understanding of it.