How to shoot high-quality portraits?

Lead: How to shoot a high-quality portrait? The following is mainly about the skills of darkening and improving contrast.

Dark contrast is a lighting form suitable for shooting in autumn and winter. Many times clothes are taken two seasons in advance, such as furs or coats and cotton-padded jackets taken in autumn and winter in midsummer. When the shooting season is not supported, we need to shoot indoors, and many men's and women's clothes in autumn and winter will also use dark contrast shooting.

In recent years, fashion brands have been presented in a dark and high-contrast way, such as: /LD Men's Wear/alexander wang:

■ Basic characteristics of dark color and high contrast.

In the picture, when the color tone is rich, the three-dimensional sense is strong, and the dark color tone and light color tone form a strong contrast trend, it can be called dark high contrast. Such photos can often show the stable, implicit and introverted personality characteristics of the characters. Dark tone is usually a sharp weapon to create an atmosphere, which can express the emotions of the characters well.

Dark call light is not simply to reduce exposure, but usually needs to add highlights where it attracts visual attention to form contrast and highlight the focus of the picture. Clever use of light can make the picture more powerful.

■ Use lighting and fill light.

High-contrast dark photos often use side light or semi-backlight, which can outline the model and cast a large shadow between the model and the camera, creating a strong low-key effect. When shooting clothing films, it is necessary to ensure that the picture presents a strong light and shadow effect and meet the performance needs of commercial films. Different parts should be illuminated according to the actual brightness and range to avoid the effect of light superposition. Generally, a single lamp with a hard light source is used to illuminate people, the light ratio is adjusted by supplementing light with a reflector, and the backlight is appropriately increased to create a sense of space or render an atmosphere.

■ Photometry

In actual shooting, we should pay attention to the light-dark relationship between the characters and the background. Generally speaking, the light ratio is small, and people should be avoided from drowning in the background. Therefore, when measuring light, it is necessary to measure people's bright, dark and background with an exposure meter to get an accurate light ratio.

■ Lighting methods for darkening and contrast enhancement in rooms.

In the studio, the lights in the room are used to create a dark and high-contrast atmosphere. Common types of light sources are as follows.

1. Side dome light

The light with large incident angle is very suitable for fabrics with simple style and strong texture, which can well show the details of clothing materials and fabrics. The light ratio is controlled at 1: 6.

Note: the pose of the model is mostly on the side, which will make the nose, eyes, mouth and face of the character get better performance, and form highlights in these parts, which will contrast with the shadow tones of the rest.