How to shoot a portrait with true feelings?

Frank and natural portrait photos are one of my personal favorite photo styles, especially in portrait. Everything captures instant photos in an unconstrained natural way. Because many people are at least a little shy about the camera, frank and natural shooting really helps!

Of course, there are other benefits besides taking pictures blindly without anyone noticing. If you want to take really excellent natural photos, the following five quick and simple techniques will help you take the ideal photos.

1. Frequent shooting

Take your camera as much as possible and take as many photos as possible. In the long run, you will learn many good habits, which can save your time and improve the shooting efficiency.

get ready

Now that your camera is around, you notice that the light has changed, please take a second to readjust the exposure settings, which can effectively avoid the risk of shooting, because your settings can keep up with the current environment in time to shoot.

3. Don't rule out eye contact

When considering taking candid photos, you may think that the subject doesn't know the photos you are taking. Although this is the case in most cases, if handled properly, eye contact can also be caught. Usually, the best time for frank eye contact is the moment when the subject looks at the camera. Once they realize that they have been photographed, they are likely to change their expressions and the photos will lose their natural frankness.

Looking for interaction

In essence, human beings are rather curious "creatures". When we saw photos of multi-person interaction, our thoughts immediately began to try to piece together the meaning of interaction. As photographers, we can take advantage of this to shoot frank topics that interact with other people or animals, which will automatically make the content more interesting to the human eye and brain!

The available light is the best light.

For natural and frank portrait photos, using natural light or available light is almost always the best choice. Be careful not to aim the flash at objects suddenly to distract them.

When shooting younger children, one skill is to "guide" them. By advising the subject to play in an aesthetic posture, some good shots can be taken and a lot of time can be saved.