Traditional Culture Encyclopedia - Photography and portraiture - What are the skills of portrait shooting?

What are the skills of portrait shooting?

1. Understanding color: color matching is the basis of photography. Any good photographic work must be well matched, and so is portrait photography. Only when the overall colors are in harmony can the characters look full and dynamic.

2, know composition: portrait photography composition is very important, for example, we often say the golden ratio, the same person, the picture you took, this person's position in the picture is different, the effect can be different.

3, know light and shadow: any physical object, no shadow, will look very fake. Pay more attention to shadows and light in portrait photography. Shadows can make people look more unforgettable, more real and have a great effect.

4. Take more pictures: The principle of doing this is to take more pictures of people, then select good works from them, separate the good ones from the bad ones, and analyze why and where this portrait is taken well, so as to improve the technology of portrait photography.