Simple yet sophisticated portrait photography techniques

Portrait photography itself is not an easy task, especially in daily life where you don’t have complete equipment or ideal locations like professional photographers or photography agencies. However, we only need to master a few simple tips on portrait photography composition to take good photos. Let’s take a look!

Coordination between characters and environmental background

It is necessary to consider the shape and lighting of the characters, as well as the characteristics of the environment and the light effects, and organically combine the two to harmonize and create a harmonious atmosphere. set off. If you are shooting in a home environment, in order to avoid cluttered images, you can use a telephoto lens, a large aperture and a shallow depth of field to blur out the scenery in front and behind as much as possible.

When shooting against the backlight of a window, increasing the exposure can create a high-key background effect and avoid the influence of dark scenes in the home on the picture.

Try to make use of natural light and soft light effects. To brighten some dark corners in the room, you can use a soft light box if possible.

You can make the character's face face the light from the window, so that you can use the wide light source of the window to form a soft and bright eye light in the character's eyes.

Increase the blurred foreground

The foreground is a very useful thing, which can not only emphasize the subject tactfully, but also increase the depth of the picture. If some objects have stiff lines and dull colors, even if they are blurred, the effect may be too standard. Then the blurred foreground can be used as a picture frame, and its masking effect can be used to highlight the characters in the picture.

Before using this shooting method, you can first stay away from the characters and observe the surrounding environment to see what colors and shapes match the scenery, which can be used as foregrounds.

Foreground selection:

It is best to use natural scenery, such as grass, flowers, branches and leaves, etc., which are light and have a certain degree of light transmittance.

Advantages of the technique of blurring the foreground:

Improve the effect of too rigid composition of environmental portraits.

Using the effect of a large aperture and shallow depth of field, the foreground is blurred to a certain extent. Leave enough space for your gaze to extend beyond the lens.

The upward shooting perspective shows the tall figure.

When shooting portraits, different shooting heights will affect the visual experience of the characters in the picture.

Many boyfriends take pictures based on their own height when taking pictures of girls, which makes the girl look short and fat. Many girls also ask boys to squat down, but the reality is often not what they want.

Usually, the waist-level position is used for shooting: the photographer’s camera is at the same height as the subject’s waist, which is in line with the usual appreciation habits, so the characters in the picture are in line with the normal height. Physical characteristics.

However, if you adopt a crouching position, get slightly closer to the character, and use a wide angle, it will better reflect the height of the character and show the tall figure. Your girl will really love you to death.