How to highlight the subject of photography

A basic point of taking a portrait is to highlight your subject or isolate her/him from the background. Once you successfully separate the subject from the background, your portrait will be more powerful because the audience's attention will not be disturbed by the background.

Image source: The key way to highlight the main body of the network is to adjust your aperture. When using a large aperture (small aperture value), you can get a shorter depth of field, and at the same time make the background out of focus and highlight the main body in the scene frame. The easiest way is to use the built-in portrait photography mode of the portable camera. Find a button with silhouette or portrait on your camera function setting table, select portrait mode, and force the camera to automatically use the maximum aperture to help you highlight the subject. When using a SLR camera or a more advanced camera, the aperture priority mode should be used to obtain the maximum aperture, which is usually set to the maximum aperture of f/2.8 or f/3.5 lens (the maximum aperture will become f/5.6 or f/6.3 after enlargement). When you use a short depth of field, your main face may not be in full focus, so it is important to choose the part that is in focus first. Personally, I think people's eyes can reveal their emotions and personalities best. I want the eyes to appear clearly in the photos, so I tend to focus on the eyes. The mouth is another place for focusing. You can find a few different parts to experiment with yourself-you will learn how to shoot a portrait that is more eye-catching than the general head and shoulder shot. Image source: You are likely to encounter two focusing modes on the Internet-autofocus mode, and the camera will automatically help you focus according to the framing mode you choose; And manual focusing mode, in which you can adjust which point of the scene frame you want to focus on yourself. The easiest way to focus your eyes (or other points you choose) is to focus manually. If you are using an automatic camera, please select manual focus in the function setting options. There may be a switch or focus ring on the lens of a professional camera. You can adjust the focal length from the viewport to the clearest position (in this case, focus on the eyes).

Image source: Just because the network makes the background out of focus does not mean that the background is not important. There is a very simple way to highlight the subject in studio photography, that is, let the subject stand in front of a pure white, black or gray background. If you want the subject to jump out of the background obviously, you can also compare the color of the background with the color of the clothes worn by the subject. For example, if your subject is wearing green, standing in front of a pink or red wall can generate vivid motivation. You can also try outdoor scenery, or have a light source behind the subject. When you use a large aperture, the out-of-focus part will turn into blurred light, bringing an interesting and almost surreal luminous background to the picture. In Japanese, photography terminology calls this feeling Bokeh, which comes from Bokeaji(ぼけあじ), and its original meaning is blur. Please note that the background does not always need to be out of focus. In environmental portraits, the background plays an important role in highlighting the personality characteristics of the subject.