How to make selfies look better?

How to make selfies look better? Self-portrait has become a trend and an attitude, and most people tend to record their daily life in this way. However, if you want to take impressive photos, you need to master some tips. So, how to make selfies look better?

▲ How to take a selfie without playing with a mobile phone?

1, find the most beautiful angle.

Self-timer is very particular about angle. Proper shooting angle can not only enhance the aesthetic feeling, but also better cover the small flaws on the face. All you have to do is try more and learn more about yourself.

The most commonly used angle for self-portrait is a 45-degree oblique angle, which is a self-portrait angle that many girls like. If you tilt the phone at 45 degrees, according to the perspective principle, your eyes will be closer to the lens, which will make it look bigger. If you look up, your eyes will naturally open wider. Moreover, because the face and chin are far away from the lens, it will visually form the effect that the chin is pointed and the eyes are bigger.

▲ Obliquely upward 45 degrees.

Head-up is to keep the height of the mobile phone and eyes at the same height. This is the simplest way to shoot, and the photos will look more natural. If you want to create a feeling that others are shooting, you can not look at the camera, which will make the head-up selfie more natural.

▲ Looking straight, self-portrait photos that look relaxed and casual seem to be more in line with the current aesthetic trend.

In addition, it is not common to take selfies from the side face. If the selfie taker has a perfect side face, you can try to choose the side face selfie method. This angle is suitable for people with good facial contour and strong three-dimensional sense.

▲ If you are confident in the outline of your side face, you can try to shoot the front.

It should be noted that blind shot is usually needed, and it is impossible to adjust the facial expression and head angle, which may require several attempts.

2. Selection of background

The shooting location is optional. Flower sea, forest, roadside and seaside are ideal shooting scenes, as well as colorful playgrounds, parks with many green plants, cafes, empty lawns, roofs, buses and even gray skies.

When taking selfies, the simpler the background, the better. Because the mobile phone can't create a smaller depth of field, in order to make the picture look clean and concise, choose a simple background, such as a real wall and a simple decorative painting. The simpler the background, the more prominent the portrait will be in the picture.

▲ Using a solid wall as the background is the easiest way to make the picture simple.

If the shooting environment is messy and unavoidable, you can use the methods of looking up with the sky as the background, looking down with the ground as the background, opening the door slowly, deliberately overexposed/underexposed background and so on to create a relatively simple picture background.

▲ Head-up shooting, with flowers and plants as the foreground and the sky as the background, simplifies the shooting scene.

▲ Aerial shooting, with fallen leaves on the ground as the background of the picture, can also simplify the background.

3, the use of light and shadow

Regarding the use of light, you can refer to the previous article, such as front light, side light and back light, just like natural light before.

What I want to emphasize here is that in many places where we are easy to take selfies, such as restaurants and coffee shops, most of the lights are overhead. This kind of light can make the food on the table look more attractive, but it will be ugly to shoot people. Because it will leave a heavy shadow on the face, the five senses are not three-dimensional.

▲ The shadow of Liu Hai completely suppresses the eyes, but it is better than slapping the face and stealing the mirror with a hairstyle, which makes the whole look not so bad.

Of course, don't forget the use of shadows. Shadow is the best prop around you. It seems simple, but it often enriches the works and greatly increases the story.

▲ The sunlight through the window in the morning leaves a mottled projection on the wall.

4. How to take a selfie with a big face?

The standard is nothing more than those points: no big face, no small eyes, and good looks. In addition to finding the most beautiful angle described above, we can also consider the following two aspects:

A. occlusion

As we all know, if you have a good face, you will save a lot of effort on camera. We don't have a good-looking face, so we must try our best to cover it up. There are also many ways to shelter, such as flowers, balloons, leaves, hats and so on. You can choose outdoor, books, cups, pillows and so on. You can choose indoors, and you can even block it by holding your chin with your hand. Of course, don't ignore a magical face-hair.

▲ Disrupt the hair, add bangs to the eyes, give people a lazy feeling, cover most of the face, and attract people's attention to the delicate face.

▲ Cover your face with a straw hat, avoid the dissatisfied parts, highlight the perfect part of your face, and add a mysterious and beautiful feeling.

B. Do more composition and leave more blank space

If you look at the selfies of many celebrities on the ins network, you will find that they seldom take headshots. First, there is nothing new about looking at the five senses and aesthetic fatigue; Second, the whole screen is a face, no matter how small it is, you can't see it.

▲ You can stay away from the camera as much as possible to make the picture more background. This will also enrich the content of the photo and weaken the face shape.

5. How to remove the traces of self-portraits?

If you want to take such a photo, try not to show the feeling of taking a photo with one hand. If you feel that it is not easy to operate, you can repair your mobile phone. Then, tripod, stabilizer and other stabilizing devices are essential. In addition, you can also use earphone cable (volume key to control shutter), Bluetooth remote control, voice control photography, timing photography and other methods to realize the process of taking pictures by yourself.

▲ Use tripod and Bluetooth shutter button to ensure the stability of the mobile phone and the clarity of the picture.

Without looking at the camera, self-portrait photos that look relaxed and casual seem to be more in line with the current aesthetic trend, such as this one. .....

▲ Without looking at the camera, it looks more casual and relaxed, creating the feeling of his shooting.

▲ Indulge in your own world

6. self-portrait in the mirror

What I have to mention here is that I can take a selfie in front of the mirror, I can take a full-body photo without other people's help, I can recess various shapes in front of the mirror, and no one can resist the perfect long-legged shape without P-picture. It has become a popular selfie method for girls.

▲ One leg is upright and the other leg is inclined.

7. Increase creativity in the later stage

Ordinary selfies are too simple, too many shots, nothing new. When the early shooting can't be realized, we can use some creativity in the later stage to make the same selfie different. Thousands of shooting and post-processing apps greatly enhance the playability of mobile phone photos and reduce the difficulty of post-processing photos, such as double exposure, dynamic special effects, local colors, fragmentation effects, and even moving photos.

▲ Black and white local discoloration

▲ Fragmentation effect

▲ "Hand-drawn Line Drawing"

Finally, I want to say that selfies seem casual, but we are also creating, and we need to consider artistry when shooting, so that we can have a sense of beauty when shooting. Not limited to the above angles or actions. Many good photos come from a sudden idea. You can also use various props and different costumes to give full play to your imagination and skillfully combine them. Perhaps your photos are not only different, but also rare creative works.

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