Shooting skills of portrait lighting at night

Reasonable darkness is the unique charm of night images. In the subsequent shooting, I collected the shooting skills of portrait lighting at night. Welcome everyone to have a look.

Environmental choice:

1, choose the right light source, there are all kinds of colored lanterns now, but try to choose a single color as the main light source when taking pictures to avoid the interference of other color light sources, otherwise the model's face will bloom, and blue and purple will not look good together unless you deliberately create a certain atmosphere. It is suggested to choose white light or warm light as the foreground light source. That kind of fluorescent blue fluorescent purple skin will be very uncomfortable, and it will be difficult to color later.

2. Avoid strong background light on the model's face.

3, to avoid models completely submerged in the dark, because most people in China have black hair, and it is a bit scary to see a face with black hair.

4. Pay attention to the face angle of the model, and avoid putting the front of the model in uniform light, so that you will get a divergent face without any lines and three-dimensional sense. Turn your face slightly to the side, make your face a little brighter and darker, so that your five senses will be three-dimensional. Please pay attention to the viewfinder for details.

If you find a big light box, congratulations, you get a large area of uniform light. You can call her Big Soft Box. Such a light source will bring excessively uniform light and can show rich details.

Camera settings:

1, white balance setting, if there is a professional white balance tool, of course, if not, it is still conservative to use sunlight white balance or about 5000K K, if you use white balance such as cloud shadow, yellow and red will overflow seriously and lose details.

2. The shooting format is in RAW format. Needless to say, this is the biggest detail, and the white balance can be adjusted later.

3. The suggested 3.ISO setting is 800- 1600. Such an ISO was unimaginable at the beginning, and there would be serious noise, but the cameras in these two years will basically be well handled.

4. The shutter setting should ensure the safe shutter speed as much as possible, that is, the shutter speed higher than the reciprocal of the lens focal length. For example, if you shoot with a 200mm lens, the minimum safe shutter speed is 1/200 seconds. Below this speed, there is a great risk of misfire. Of course, the anti-shake lens will be much better now. Don't forget the multiplication factor of non-full-frame cameras, such as Sony, Nikon, Pentax 200mm lens safety shutter 200* 1. 5=300, Canon 200* 1. 6=320

Lens selection:

1, focal length and aperture determine the size of the background spot. The longer the focal length, the larger the aperture and the larger the background spot, so the background of telephoto and large aperture head will be more charming! So we suggest 50,85, 135,200,300 beats, but generally 85,135 is enough.

2. The closer the light bulb is to the lens, the larger the light spot. On the contrary, when shooting through the light gap, be careful not to let the big light spot cover your face.

Flash use:

1, try to avoid direct flashing, because the light is hard and the photo looks uncomfortable.

2. If there is no flasher outside the car, the flasher must be at the top of the machine to flash, so the flash reflection method should be considered. Find a light wall to reflect light. If there is no suitable reflective object, it is recommended to bring a 5-in-1 1 1 small reflector. Of course, the big reflector is better, but it may attract security, so the small reflector is very easy to use. At night, you can use the golden reflector to deflect the angle of the overhead flash to the reflector for reflection.

3. It would be great if there is an off-board flash device, so that you can flexibly fill the light and put the flash in the position you need. If it is to make up the light on the face, it is best to use a gold reflector to reflect the light of the flash.

Matters needing attention when shooting:

1, the camera posture should try to ensure that the chest of the head of household with both arms keeps the camera stable and can lean on it. It is very important to lower the center of gravity of the knees, otherwise it will be easy to be empty.

2. Because of the oscillation frequency of small colored lights, the same shutter and aperture will find some photos dark and some bright, so it is impossible to take more photos. For example, the oscillation frequency of incandescent lamp is 50HZ, and there is no problem if the shutter is lower than 50, and a black belt will appear if it is higher than 50.

Promote the skills of photography

1, the dichotomy should be remembered.

This is the basic step of composition, which is very basic, but it is a very useful and practical composition method and an indispensable basic skill for making photos have the most basic readability.

2. Eyes can talk

Taking people as the object of shooting is definitely an element that cannot be ignored. If you capture the emotion in your eyes, you will capture the emotion in the picture. Pay more attention.

3. Light and shadow create dramatic tension.

The facial contour shaped by side light and the silhouette effect formed by backlight can strengthen the tension of the picture and add a sense of story to the drama. In the final analysis, knowing the light is half the battle.

4. simplicity is beauty

Don't be greedy, a photo should have a clear theme or protagonist. Simple photos are often more powerful. Please refer to Minimalism-Photography is the Art of Subtraction.

Step 5 play with depth of field

"Depth of field is a photographer's Disneyland, fun!" Indeed, don't be obsessed with shallow depth of field. It seems very professional. Try different effects.

6. Shutter speed is a magic wand

Everyone has seen a floating girl under the high-speed shutter, or the water flow, light graffiti and crowd traffic under the slow shutter, and there are various ways to play. As long as you know how to use it, your photos will become magic.

7. Change your point of view from an angle

Why are most people's photos so boring? Because everyone "can't put down their figure" and is too lazy to run to different heights, the photos are all from the same angle and look the same. As long as we change the angle, the photos will be more exciting.

8. Contrast is the trump card

Whether it's black dialogue, light versus dark, red versus green, big versus small, hard versus soft, good versus evil, as long as there is contrast, photos are attractive, which is an iron law.