What are the shooting methods of portrait photography? What are their advantages and disadvantages?

There are many photography skills, such as candid camera, continuous shooting. From the machine shooting mode, different focal length, focusing, metering, aperture, shutter and exposure compensation are used according to the situation. Others include composition, perspective, scene selection, shooting angle (overhead shooting, overhead shooting, flat shooting), color tone, lighting and so on.

As for the pros and cons, you should consider the effect you want. Different techniques will produce different effects, which requires more practice, reference and summary.

Portrait photography, from the use of equipment, is to use large aperture to reduce the depth of field, to blur the background, make people clear and highlight the effect of characters. At the same time, we should pay attention to the soft light, so that the details of all parts of the portrait can be fully reflected, so when shooting portraits outdoors, we should avoid direct sunlight, and the effect will be good on cloudy days. The subject should not be too close to people, otherwise a wide-angle effect will appear and the characters will be deformed.

If the portrait is taken from above or below, the distance will definitely be close, and there will be a wide-angle effect, that is, the obvious distance is small and the distance is large, similar to the effect of looking up and looking down. Therefore, prone shooting generally shows that the characters are mighty, tall and ambitious. If you shoot down, you will feel that the characters are small, but it is not necessarily. In particular, overhead shooting sometimes has unexpected effects, such as novelty and otherness.