How can I become a good portrait photographer?

If you want to be a professional or professional photographer, you must grasp all the links and form a complete process, and the level of this process is your photography level. The white gauze curtain, the red light, and the full scheduling of the small space constitute an impactful picture. First of all, you must know yourself. There are many ways to learn photography. In fact, they all contain a primary purpose-to help you know yourself correctly. The so-called photography level must include various elements related to portrait photography. Together with your inspiration and talent, these elements constitute the overall level of photography. According to the "barrel theory" that we are familiar with, how much water a barrel holds is determined by the shortest board-similarly, in shooting, it is likely that you have shown an extraordinary aura in some aspects and played quite well, but it is often those links that you are unfamiliar with or ignore that ultimately affect and limit the overall level. The noisy and shabby environment, foreign models wearing strange clothes, simple and direct fashion shooting methods and excellent black and white tone control ability have created outstanding visual tension and cultural sense. To improve the level, we must start from all aspects of the process. Even if you have taken a good work or won such an award, it is obvious that you have not reached the standard of a real professional photographer before the whole process is established. The more techniques and means you master, the more information you can interpret in a work: in the face of a portrait work, laymen can only see beautiful models and feel the appeal of the picture; As a photographer, you can obviously analyze many factors, such as model, makeup, modeling, clothing collocation, scene setting, lens language, composition skills, instantaneous and dynamic, color application and post-adjustment, makeup and skin treatment, and find out which links are excellent and worth learning and learning from, and which ones are just general or have certain defects. Any excellent work is based on a complete and effective workflow, which is formed by one or several links giving full play to their functions. A photographer's workflow is incomplete or obviously lacking, but with the excellent performance of a certain link, it can also constitute a work-however, such a work often inevitably makes people feel that there is a certain lack of professionalism; There are also a few very successful photographers' works, which may have reached a high level in all aspects of the process-it is certainly not easy to reach such a level, which makes people realize that the improvement of the level will not happen overnight. For a photographer who just started, learning from and imitating is the most direct and quickest way to improve his level. Portrait photography has many objective conditions as the premise. Therefore, even if you want to completely "copy" a work, it is impossible in most cases, so you don't have to worry that your work looks "like" a famous photographer at a certain stage. For cutting-edge photographers, most of them are still in the first state we described: they have a basically complete and effective workflow and have excellent performance in one or two aspects. Because of this, their works have the most direct reference value for most people. Behind the harmonious and beautiful picture is a huge investment in shooting-traveling thousands of kilometers with models, makeup artists, clothes and photographic equipment ... Do you still think portrait photography today is a very easy thing? Self-inflation falls into self-repetition and stagnates in a certain period, which is an inevitable dilemma for most professional photographers, especially those who are engaged in commercial shooting and skilled. In serious cases, some people may even lose interest and enthusiasm in this industry and photography. In commercial shooting, for the sake of efficiency and management, it is essential to form a relatively solid process and mode in the shooting process. Undoubtedly, in a sense, personal shooting out of interest and self-expression is completely different from day-to-day model commercial shooting. However, this test is not meaningless: first, it can hone the endurance and self-control ability necessary for any profession; Secondly, you can make every technical link highly skilled. Commercial things are full of noise, impetuousness and shallowness, and it is inevitable that they will not be infected for a long time. In this process, it is most important to keep personal feelings about the lens, picture and image. Many professional photographers have a very effective experience: shooting is divided into two parts: personal shooting and business shooting, with personalized shooting as a kind of "saving" and business shooting as a kind of "release". Facts have proved that it is very valuable for professional photographers to stick to this personalized creation. For professional portrait photographers, excessive "specialization"-what they see, think and do every day, is not necessarily a good thing. Portrait photography is only a category of photography, and commercial portrait is only a branch of portrait photography. If we can always jump out of the habitual thinking mode, our thinking and vision will be broader. The previous generation of photographers like to look for creativity and inspiration from fashion photography, especially foreign fashion photographers; The new generation of photographers will turn their attention to film and television dramas, MTV, comics and video games, and integrate a wider range of popular cultural elements into portrait shooting, showing richer changes and possibilities. Finally, I tell you that for young photographers with outstanding personality, the repeated composition process is a considerable test.