Beauty Skills and Structure of Portrait Photography

Portrait photography is a very important part of photography, which mainly includes documentary style and artistic photo style. Both have their own strengths and complement each other, far from being superior or inferior. There are many opportunities to take portraits in our life. We can't capture wonderful moments with keen eyes like masters, and we can't have the opportunity to achieve professional effects for your models with professional lighting and makeup artists. So we can only take the middle road, but there are many similarities in skills between the two. The following introduces the beauty skills and composition of portrait photography, hoping that more photographers can use it.

First, the beauty skills and composition of portrait photography

The purpose of portrait photography is to make people beautiful, so the photographer must shoot when the facial temperament of the person being photographed is the most beautiful, otherwise the photos that are barely taken will be embarrassing. How to decorate the subject is a test for photographers. When to shoot contrast and show the texture of the skin, and when to cover up the defects of the skin with less contrast, we need accumulated observation and thinking experience to make accurate judgments. For example, the general concept of plane light is to make thinner people look fatter. The specific method is to use plane light to reduce the height of the camera. Although this method can make people look fatter, it will expose the nostrils of the characters and destroy the aesthetic feeling. This is the disadvantage of using the traditional combination of lighting and camera position. The so-called saving one cannot save two. Therefore, now we usually use posture modeling to improve the image of characters.

1, "beauty" should pay attention to skills.

(a) for ugly, try to avoid close-ups and recent photos.

(2) For people with chubby faces, they can be properly covered with veiled hands or other trinkets, and at the same time, the camera position can be improved.

(3) When shooting with big eyes and small eyes, the angle of the subject should be adjusted, and the small eyes should be close to the lens.

(4) the shooting of "rolling your eyes"; Try to keep the photographer's eyes to one side and catch the moment when his eyes turn, not the moment when his eyes are wide open.

(5) "cross-eyed" shooting; Photographers should try to find a suitable angle so that the eyes of the subject appear on the opposite side of the picture at different times.

(6) For the subject with a long neck, the plane should also be raised to allow the subject's hand and jaw.

(7) For people with a sharp chin, you should use a combination of high position and the subject's bow.

(8) It is the most difficult to shoot "nose up", just don't shoot the front.

2. Usually, there are three commonly used composition modes, also called formulaic mode composition;

(1) close-up

(2) Seven doppelgangers

(3) Whole body

When shooting a scene, the height of the camera will also decrease with the expansion of the shooting range. When shooting a bust, the height of the camera is approximately equal to the height of the subject's nose; When taking photos of seven heads, the camera position is about the height of the subject's chest; When taking a full-length photo, the height of the camera should be at the waist of the subject. The so-called composition is to arrange various shooting elements in a specific scene to achieve the effect of expressing the object of appeal. Nowadays, the popular portrait photography skills usually use the following methods to express the theme in composition and framing, and write it for your reference and correction.

(1) Use the difference of depth of field before and after to highlight the theme of the characters.

(2) Use the method of size contrast to make the main body bigger and the foil smaller.

(3) Emphasize the subject through color contrast.

(4) The main body is stationary and moves with the body, so the stability of the main body composition is relatively strong.

Second, Steven teaches you post-production tips.

Many people ask me if my pictures have been post-processed, and I think there is no doubt about it. Appropriate post-treatment plays a decisive role in the atmosphere effect to be displayed. Therefore, post-production is an indispensable link and one of the elements. My picture is not a man-made drastic treatment, but pays attention to the mastery and application of color and tone. If the colors and tones are properly mastered and used, the whole group of pictures will be more powerful and full of vitality.

Although many people know the unparalleled power of the later period, they can't start with what kind of atmosphere they want to decorate and what kind of pictures they want to render. We don't want to do it for later. Just like the previous stage, you should understand what kind of mood and atmosphere can be rendered by such post-processing, instead of simply making the picture feel good about itself and thinking that it is a satisfactory post-processing, and you should not rely too much on the post-processing to process and recreate some things that were originally scrapped, so I think it will lose the meaning of photography itself.

There are many "PS actions" made by others on the Internet for users to download, although these convenient "PS actions" are very easy and worry-free. A mouse can get a variety of effects, but I don't recommend using other people's "research results" directly, because the shooting parameters of each picture are different (such as environment, exposure, etc. ), and the result is completely different, and then you will wonder, why did I get this effect? Therefore, it is better to learn hard kung fu seriously. In fact, don't think of post-production as so complicated, unattainable and out of reach. Sometimes, it only takes one or two steps to achieve the desired effect. The point is that we should not be lazy.

Before you start making, you must first understand what kind of renderings can express the desired atmosphere and effect. Clear the central idea, there will be a direction, and there will be no chaos. Of course, you can try different effects, as long as it is in line with or close to the atmosphere to be rendered, which is correct, conscious later stage, rather than unconscious "mass production".