Portrait Photography Techniques in A Midsummer Park

Lead: In summer, people like to take pictures in the park. Let's take a look at some photography skills.

Some points to pay attention to when shooting backlight:

1. Photometric determination

Usually when we shoot a model, we measure the light on the face, or more strictly speaking, on the eyes. Use central focus or spot metering to move the metering point in the framing window to the face position, move to the correct composition after metering, and press the shutter.

2. Hole

When shooting portraits, we often use a large aperture to get a shallow depth of field. It will be more prominent when the proportion of the main body is not very large. Another advantage of using a large aperture is that the shutter speed will not be slower than the safety limit when the weather is dark.

3. Shutter speed

What is the safety limit of shutter speed? Just one? Critical value? Faster speed than this limit can avoid the picture blur caused by hand jitter and the movement of the subject, but the shutter safety limit varies from person to person. First of all, it depends on whether the subject is moving and to what extent. The moving subject usually needs to freeze the picture, and 1/250 may be safer. If the subject is fixed, the camera bracket can freeze for about 1/8 seconds or even 1/4 seconds. Thirdly, we consider the stability of the photographer's own hands. Everyone's hand stability is different, about 1/60 seconds and the picture is not blurred, everyone can achieve it.

Control the direction of light

The direction of light in backlight shooting is very important, that is to say, choose the shooting direction. What needs to be clear is that the upper left corner in the above picture is the position of sunlight. In order to ensure clear focus and image quality, it is best to choose manual focus.

5. Some ingredients

When creating a partial composition, you should choose beautiful partial depictions, such as arms, shoulders, eyes, etc. As long as you can highlight the theme and enrich the picture, it will become a bright spot in your group of photos, making your work more vivid and energetic.

Different measurement methods have different effects.

What is the most widely used photometric range? Evaluation photometry? What is the minimum measurement range? Spot metering? It can only measure the light in a small range in the viewfinder. ? Partial metering? Measurements will be made in a slightly wider range than spot metering. Central key average metering? Then focus on the central part of the picture and measure the light of the whole picture. As shown in the above figure, the appropriate exposure parameters automatically judged by the camera will be different with the change of metering method. Almost all SLR cameras have a variety of metering methods, which we choose according to different shooting conditions. The appropriate exposure parameters calculated by the camera will also change, giving full play to the advantages of various metering methods.