Eight Skills of Business Portrait Shooting

Lead: If you are a commercial photographer, do you know what to do next when you receive a commercial shooting project? This is a familiar thing for a senior commercial photographer. However, what if you are a novice who has just entered the commercial photography industry? There may be a lot of confusion in the shooting process of the whole project. Then, I hope the next eight steps to shoot business portraits will inspire you.

1. It all started with an idea.

Sometimes, you will be lucky enough to receive a project that already has the idea of shooting: although it may be just an atmosphere and a feeling, it is already a good start. But more often, you need to get inspiration by yourself and form shooting ideas, such as theme, clothing, hairstyle, makeup, scene collocation and so on.

Get inspiration for shooting

There are many ways to get the idea of shooting, but referring to other people's pictures is undoubtedly the most convenient and effective way. Therefore, when you are worried about the lack of inspiration, you can browse the pictures of many other famous photographers and refer to their shooting ideas to stimulate your own inspiration (when getting ideas, you should pay attention to the theme style of the whole shooting project, which is best close to the style that customers like).

3. Set up a shooting team

A complete team is essential to shoot a project, and most photographers often have a perfect team. If you don't have your own team, you can form one temporarily. Teams generally include makeup artists, stylists, etc. Set it up according to your own needs!

4. Model

For photographers, the importance of models is self-evident. A good and experienced model can reduce the workload of photographers, and at the same time, it can also provide some guarantee for photographers to shoot good works. Therefore, when seeking cooperation, it is best to find an experienced and dedicated model. But the average photographer knows a limited number of models, so I recommend a photography platform for you to know about them.

5. Choose a shooting location

After the team and the model are formed, the next step is to choose the shooting location according to the creativity. If you shoot indoors, you should consider the choice of scenes and props, and the lighting is completely controlled by yourself; If shooting outdoors, the trouble is to consider whether the weather will affect the shooting, and the lighting layout will also be affected by the sun.

6. Shooting time planning

Arrange the shooting time. First of all, you have to choose a day when the whole shooting team is free. If it is your own team, it is easier to achieve. If it is temporary, it may be more troublesome. Next, it is the time schedule of the live shooting. When planning, it is best to take into account the time taken by possible accidents, so as to have more time to finish shooting (if the accident does not happen, you can finish shooting ahead of time).

7. Shooting process

On the day of shooting, the shooting should be carried out in strict accordance with the previous plan. No matter the shooting theme or the arrangement of time, the whole team should perform their duties in an orderly manner. When shooting, you can use the final product as the frame, just like when shooting for a magazine, you can use the page of the magazine as the frame to see how the effect is, and avoid the mistake that the shot picture cannot be used. At the same time, we should pay special attention to the details when shooting, such as the folds of clothes, scattered hair, etc., to reduce the later workload.

8. Handover of finished products

Post-production, to maintain the original theme style, can not be arbitrarily changed, because each customer has its own style. After the production is completed, the finished product cannot be published online immediately. You have to send the finished product to the customer and get the consent before you can publish it online.