What are the photography skills of outdoor portraits?

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What are the photography skills of outdoor portraits? For ordinary portrait photographers, there may be a misunderstanding about the use of flash, that is, flash is used for lighting. Flash is useless in outdoor portrait photography with strong sunshine during the day. Of course, this understanding is one-sided. People who only use natural light to take pictures may not necessarily use flash, but those who can master flash well must know natural light, so the really excellent flash works are not necessarily pure flash, but the proper combination of natural light and artificial light. Although natural light has the advantages of being true and natural, it can properly express the scene atmosphere when shooting, but natural light is not perfect and cannot appear in every place where lighting is needed. Therefore, adding flash can help make up for the shortage of natural light and improve the quality of photos.

Shooting steps:

Generally speaking, it is not easy to shoot portraits in a sunny day with blue sky and white clouds in a backlight environment, because the light difference between the subject and the background environment is too large, and it is not easy to take into account the normal exposure of both. If the face of a portrait is used as the basis of photometry, the background will be overexposed and there will be no details. If the blue sky is used as the basis of photometry, the face of the portrait will be underexposed and even become a silhouette.

It is an effective method to fill the subject with TTL flash or automatic flash:

1. First measure the light in the background. Then switch to M mode and set the aperture and shutter values to the previous metering results (please note that the shutter must be within the synchronous shutter range of the flash).

2. Use TTL flash or automatic flash to fill the light on the subject.

Precautions:

In backlight photography, in order to enrich the picture level and obtain good color reproduction, flash is needed to fill the light. Generally speaking, as a supplementary light, it is not necessary to apply enhanced power lighting to the flash, but attention should be paid to controlling the brightness of the flash to avoid excessive supplementary light. Generally, it can be set to about two steps equivalent to normal exposure. If shooting with the wide-angle end of the camera zoom lens or the viewing angle equivalent to a standard lens, please set the flash to? Weaken? Files can prevent excessive fill light.

Tip:

Add a soft cover to the flash lamp holder. The light of the small flash is hard, you can add a soft light cover, if not, cover it with a layer of paper towel. So the light can be softer.

Outdoor photography during the day, and in another case, we also use flash to fill the light. For example, in a cloudy environment, or in other scenes such as tree shade, the outdoor light is uniform. We use flash to fill the light for the characters, which will make the skin color of the characters smoother and brighter. In this case, we can directly measure the light, because the light is uniform. Of course, the flash must generally reduce the output by about two gears to weaken the strong light trace.

As shown above: the model is lying on the leaves, the flash moves down, and the characters are bright.

Outdoor portraits fill the light during the day? Flashing as a fill light

Don't think that you only need to use a flash when the light is dark. Sometimes you must use a flash to fill the light when the light is sufficient. In one case, there is a great contrast between the subject and the background when shooting against the light. If the subject is exposed, the background will inevitably be overexposed, the background will return to normal, and the subject will be underexposed. At this time, you need to fill the light with a flash.

As shown below, the shooting environment is 4: 30 in the afternoon. Although the ambient light darkens with the setting sun, the light is still bright due to the influence of backlight. People's faces are dark because of the backlight. When taking this photo, measure the environment first. The measured data is the aperture F3.5 and the shutter is 1/250. After the measurement, set the camera to M, set the aperture shutter, turn on the DF800 flash, TTL mode, and output negative 1.5. Finally, the finished product drawing is taken, and the human face is normally exposed.

Backlight draws a circle of warm lines around girls' hair and sweaters, which is isolated from the background and highlights the main body of the characters. The front flash fills the light. When shooting a composition, pay attention to covering a part of the main body of the sun with the subject to avoid too much glare.