Outdoor portrait photography skill video

What are the skills of outdoor portrait photography? The choice of background is very important when shooting portraits. If used properly, it can set off the atmosphere of the picture well, and the complex background can easily distract the viewer's attention. So try to choose a simple and harmonious background when shooting, so as to better highlight the subject. Below I have compiled outdoor photography skills for everyone, welcome to read!

High-profile shooting with the sea as the background.

Simple background can make people stand out in the picture, but the picture lacks story and can't explain the environment of the characters in the picture well, so it is only suitable for shooting portrait works. If you want to make the picture more readable, you should choose the background according to the shooting intention or the characteristics of the subject. You can try to choose a beautiful scenery or content environment as the background to enrich and enrich the picture.

Blur the background as much as possible. When shooting a full-length portrait of the subject, the telephoto lens will greatly blur the background. If you only take close-ups of faces and portraits above the chest, you can also take photos with blurred background when the aperture is fully open with a short focal length lens. However, when shooting a full-length portrait, the blurred background needs to use a focal length of more than 300 mm

The mullion, that is, the vertical rectangular composition, extends up and down. This frame mode is also a common composition method for taking portraits. The mullion emphasizes the vertical factors in the picture and the depth of the picture, and can be used to shoot full-length portraits or busts.

Portrait is the main theme, but the proportion of portrait in the photo is less than half of the picture, while other pictures such as landscape art occupy more than half of the photo. Its biggest feature is that although the picture is still dominated by portraits, it focuses on the artistic expression of portraits and scenery, and it is a photo type operated from the perspective of artistic composition.

As mentioned above, the larger the aperture (such as f/ 1.8, f/2.4), the smaller the aperture value and the smaller the depth of field. The smaller the aperture (such as f/ 18, f/22), the larger the aperture value and the greater the depth of field. If you want to get a photo with a shallow depth of field, you should first consider shooting with a large aperture. Large aperture plays a very important role in portrait photography, which can obtain the beautiful blur effect of shallow depth of field and help us to ensure higher shutter speed in the case of poor ambient light.

The feeling in front of the camera is also different, so it is difficult to summarize the performance skills. The key lies in the continuous adjustment and accurate shaping ability of the model itself.

Triangle composition is a typical composition form in portrait photography, which is divided into regular triangle, inverted triangle and oblique triangle. When shooting, the limbs or postures of the characters are combined into a triangle. This composition has a strong sense of stability and upward impact, and the face of the person is usually located at the top of the triangle as the visual center.

Diagonal composition is often used in portrait photography. When the posture or body movements of the characters appear diagonally in the picture and occupy enough space, the diagonal composition method is formed.

Pay attention to the model's clothes. Clothing and accessories are also part of the picture. As a visual creator, you should have a choice.

A successful news and landscape photography work does not need the "people in the painting" to participate in the conception and expression of the work. The' model' in clothing, advertising and portrait photography is undoubtedly the soul of the work, which can make a work move from mediocrity to superb vision.

Don't let the models go home empty-handed, give them something to hold. The commonly used props are bouquets, and even men can take pictures with them.

Curve composition is divided into S-shaped composition and C-shaped composition. When shooting female portraits, S-shaped or C-shaped compositions are often used to show the femininity and sexiness of the body. Among them, S-shaped composition is the most commonly used, and C-shaped composition also has a good performance effect in expressing women's feminine figure, but it is weaker than S-shaped composition. Usually, when a woman with good figure stands naturally, she can shoot a beautiful S-shaped curve from the side, but if she shoots from the front, she needs the model to tilt slightly. In addition to these two angles, you can also form a sexier S-shaped curve by lying down.

The stretching effect produced by diagonal composition has a very good effect on expressing the slender figure of women or beautifying the defects of the subject's figure. When using this composition method to shoot portraits, the model must have at least one instep stretched straight, so that the lines of the body can extend from the legs.

If the background is not completely blurred, it will show some transparency. It is difficult to show transparency after the background is completely blurred. A key point of portrait shooting is to skillfully show the transparency between the photographer and the background by controlling the blurred part and the uncluttered part.

Measuring the light focused on the right side of the face: measuring the light is actually the key to not blackening. Generally speaking, it is recommended to use spot metering in backlight shooting, but I think spot metering is too small to judge the exposure balance when changing scenes, so I personally prefer to use central focus metering, and add 1~2 exposure compensation on this basis to get a photo with basic details of the face and a certain background.

Backlight shooting is more layered.

This is especially important when shooting portraits with wide-angle lenses, so wide-angle lenses will be integrated into more picture environments, so the choice of background is more important. In addition, we should also pay attention to the reasonable arrangement of the position of the characters in the picture, in order to get photos with aesthetic feeling and outstanding characteristics of the characters.

When composing a composition, you can cut off your arm. Sometimes the posture of the subject will make his shoulders or wrists go beyond the scope of composition, which is no problem at all. On the contrary, it can change the picture and give people a bold feeling, so don't hesitate to keep shooting. If you barely put all the subjects in the photo, the photo will look mediocre. Try to make a bold composition.

Close-up is one of the favorite shooting methods of many portrait photographers. Although it seems simple to take close-ups, there are many ways to choose composition and portrait parts. For example, the common close-up shooting method is to shoot people's faces, mainly showing eyes and lips. In addition, you can also focus on other parts of the portrait, such as hands, feet, legs, hips and other positions. Obviously, the close-up part will bring a different atmosphere to the picture. Nowadays, hand models, foot models, leg models and chest models often appear in commercial portrait advertisements. When shooting these models, the most common scene is close-up.

When shooting backlight, it is best to choose clothes or props with certain transparency, and try to make your hair fly as much as possible, which will add a lot of color. For example, Fangfang's red dress sets off the atmosphere and the effect is not bad!

Three-dimensional composition can be divided into horizontal three-dimensional composition and vertical three-dimensional composition. When shooting a portrait, the picture is divided into three equal parts horizontally and vertically. The torso of the person can be placed on each dividing line, and the face or eyes of the person can be placed on one of its four intersections, so that the person can be more clearly highlighted.

Photography, as an artistic expression, requires models to have special expressive power in front of the camera. This form of expression, in addition to the help of atmosphere, the use of light, the adjustment of angle, the cut-in of viewpoint, the model's subjective expression consciousness and the expression of objective emotions will play a finishing role.

Appropriate and ingenious use of adjoint can better express the artistic conception or story in the picture and strengthen the theme to be expressed. These props can be a bunch of flowers, a guitar, a toy, a pair of shoes or an umbrella. However, the props used should conform to the sex, age, personality, preferences and other characteristics of the subject, and only suitable props are available.

If you want to take a full-length portrait, you should carefully choose the aperture to ensure that the body parts of the model are within the depth of field. If you still use a large aperture such as f/2.8, the depth of field will be too shallow. Reduce the aperture to f/5.6, and ensure that the shutter speed is not lower than1125s. If necessary, increase the sensitivity or fill the light. This combination is just a suggestion. You can try different combinations to find the best setting.

Understand the intention of the work and incorporate your own ideas. A successful photographic work is not only the result of the photographer's independent creation, but also a tacit understanding between the model and the photographer. Models subconsciously participate in the photographer's conception, composition, lighting and other specific operations, giving the photographer unexpected creative inspiration.

Close-up portraits usually shoot images above the waist of the person, which can make readers have a strong impression on the person being photographed. It should be noted that it is best to use a medium telephoto lens to avoid possible perspective distortion, and at the same time, it can blur the background and beautify the picture. Close-ups are good for expressing people's facial expressions. When shooting, you can highlight the eyes of the subject, and the eyes are the windows of the soul. Eye contact is a way of communication and expression. Depicting infectious eyes can make the audience deeply understand the instantaneous expressions and emotions of the characters and better create * * * songs.

The easiest way to get a shallow depth of field and blur the background is to put the camera close to the model when the distance between the model and the background is constant, so that the effect of shallow depth of field can be easily obtained, the characters are more prominent and the background is naturally blurred. When shooting, it should be noted that the foreground cannot be a messy scene, because when the camera is close to the model, the foreground will be clearer in the picture.

Looking up shooting refers to shooting from bottom to top with the lens under the person being photographed. The picture effect exaggerates the height, and the spatial perspective effect is stronger. When taking a portrait, the lower part of the body near the camera will be enlarged, while the face away from the camera will be reduced. Portraits taken from this angle usually look taller, straighter and slimmer than usual, so if you want to show the strong temperament of men or the slender posture of women, you can use this angle.

The foreground picture is characterized by large space, multi-level scenery, short subject image and many scenery, which can fully express the environment in a large range. The foreground of shooting is to show the overall momentum of the picture to a great extent, just like "taking the momentum away" mentioned in painting theory, so the photographer should take the big picture as the center and win with momentum. In portrait photography, the foreground covers the whole physical appearance of the subject, including the feet, and the background environment is very large. When shooting, the characters are combined with the background environment, and both can be properly expressed. But pay special attention to the collocation relationship between characters and backgrounds.

Let the model be in the shadow area, and the light shining on the model's face should be uniform. The model had better stand in the shadow and face the light source.

Kung fu is beyond poetry. The model style embodied in the work is by no means the instantaneous form of shutter opening, but the comprehensive result of long-term personality development, self-cultivation, reflection on expression techniques and self-knowledge and understanding of the intention of photographic works. Become a model that photographers are willing to shoot, advertisers and enterprises are willing to use, and at the same time make the audience unforgettable and pleasing to the eye.

Create a beautiful picture with an infectious background

In order to solve the problem of black face, you can use reflectors, flashlights and so on. Let the sunshine fill your face. If there is neither, you need to carefully control the exposure combination. In fact, I have always felt that photos taken without any attachments are the most natural.

Backlighting a portrait will produce charming silhouette light, beautiful hair and possibly beautiful stars. But direct shooting is likely to often lose focus, otherwise it will make a big bad face. At this time, you need a lot of skills.

Pay attention to silhouette: I am a person who likes details, so I seldom take a pure black silhouette, but as long as it is a silhouette photo, I must pay attention to the silhouette, the lines of the side face, the lines of the outline, the lines of the light on the person, and the brightness of clothes or hair under the backlight. These are the concerns of silhouette shooting.

To be familiar with and explore all kinds of expressions, models need to have the ability to express a variety of expressions, show different kinds of emotions in an instant, and form their own styles according to their own characteristics.

Make sure that the model's eyes reflect some light, even in the shadow, as long as you keep the model and the light source oriented.

Symmetrical composition, leaving a large area blank, showing the living space. Shooting in the sixth building of Shanhaiwan.

In recent years, I have taken many photos. I came to Hainan Shanwan Phase VI and often went to Licun to shoot folk works. Portrait photography is also my favorite. I have gained a lot of experience in practice and hope to share it with my movie friends. This group of people are not models, but the children of my neighbors who live in Hainan Shanwan Phase VI Community. Because of the emphasis on composition and light consumption when shooting, there is no post-PS processing. Thank you for your attention!