Examples teach you five kinds of composition to take portraits.

Lead: We have many shooting directions to choose from when composing a composition. Any direction can be used as a shooting point to shoot a unique picture, but do you know what the characteristics of these directions are? How to choose an appropriate directional composition? Here are a few commonly used composition directions to see how wonderful foreign masterpieces make the composition form more expressive and appealing.

First, the composition of the front

For those people with normal facial features and normal facial structure, they can be photographed from the front. The form of positive composition can shape the positive characteristics of a correct face, and reveal the inner personality characteristics of the characters through the expression of eyes and facial expressions. When shooting a frontal portrait, we should pay attention to the posture and gestures of the subject, and accurately capture the subtle expressions on the face of the person when shooting, which are often conveyed and revealed through the eyes.

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Can clearly show the positive image characteristics of the subject, so that the audience can see the full picture of the front. In this composition, the subject occupies the center of the picture, facing the audience, and seems to be able to communicate and contact with the audience through eyes, expressions and gestures, which is attractive and intimate. The shot scene can show its symmetrical style characteristics.

Second, the side composition

Using contour composition can shape the contour shape of the subject. Any person with a correct profile image can be photographed from the side to show some characteristics of his profile and show the bodybuilding or beauty of the profile image. When shooting profile portraits, there are still a few people whose facial images are not correct enough, or there are some defects on the left and right sides of their faces, except those with correct facial features and changeable lateral lines. Profile composition can be used to cover up defective parts and beautify one's image.

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Using profile composition can clearly show the profile image characteristics of people, make the profile of people or scenery clear, and make the whole picture structure have obvious directionality. When shooting some moving subjects, it can enhance the active and turbulent effect. For example, sports photography, athletes' running, jumping, racing and horse racing can be shown, and the profile composition can produce a strong sense of movement, and there is a kind of momentum that you chase after me.

Third, the hypotenuse composition.

When taking portraits of people, you may encounter the situation that the eyes or ears of individual people are different in size. In this case, you can shoot obliquely, put the smaller side of the eye close to the camera lens, and correct the defects of different eyes appropriately according to the change of the lens angle; As for the size of two ears, can you have one? Defects? Ears? Hide? On the back that the audience can't see, only one ear appears on the picture, and the audience will feel that everything is normal. When shooting portraits, we should try our best to mobilize various artistic means to shape and beautify the characters.

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The oblique side composition can not only show the main features of people, scenery and objects, but also show the basic features of the side. In fact, it shows the subject. Two sides? , make the composition lively and full of three-dimensional sense. In this composition, all kinds of lines converge in a certain direction from near to far, which has obvious directionality, which is conducive to strengthening the sense of space depth and expressing the three-dimensional sense of objects.

Fourth, the back composition

Sometimes, in order to show some characteristics of the back and side of a character, the position of the back is often used to shoot. For example, headdresses representing some ethnic minorities adopt the form of back composition, which can not only clearly show the color effect of some exquisite patterns on the head and back of the characters, but also see the basic image of the profile of the characters.

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The back is a form of composition that shows some characteristics of the back and side of the subject. Just the opposite of the shooting orientation of the diagonal composition, similar to the same performance of the subject? Two sides? The three-dimensional sense is strong, and all kinds of lines have obvious directionality and perspective like oblique composition. This form of composition is mostly used to show the back features of characters, or to show the environment and background features with the back of characters as the foreground.

Fifth, recite the composition

Choosing different shooting directions and producing different composition forms all exist as the expression of photographic modeling. Theoretically speaking, the composition forms in different directions have their own characteristics and defects. Any composition form can be called an excellent composition form or an excellent photographic work as long as it combines the characteristics of certain themes, gives full play to its characteristics, avoids its shortcomings, profoundly reveals the theme and gives people a sense of beauty.

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The composition of the back can highlight the characteristics of the figure's back, and express the hidden thoughts in the author's artistic conception through the image of the back. It is not uncommon for photographers to use back composition to create excellent photographic works. In this kind of works, the figure's back posture is usually taken as the foreground, and the distant environment or background features are seen through the back to set off the theme.