Matters needing attention in indoor photography

Lead: Indoor shooting is often the easiest to try, and the monotonous canvas background of the studio may be daunting, especially when you shoot an inexperienced model.

If you want to simplify everything, window light will make the subject look more natural. You can use a reflector to illuminate the shadow and reduce the overall contrast. If the light is not bright enough, use a tripod and slow shutter speed, or adjust the sensitivity to IS0400 or 800; This will bring noise to the picture, but for most digital SLR cameras, the overall effect is acceptable.

The light through the window is a little blue, which will make the picture cooler. This can be corrected by the white balance mode of the camera. However, if we turn on the indoor tungsten lamp, create some warm light for the environment, or add some warm light to the model's face, it will also produce interesting effects. But energy-saving lamps can't achieve the same interesting effect. For example, fluorescent indoor light usually adds a morbid green color to paintings.

If you use the photographic tungsten filament over-pressure overflow lamp, you need to pay special attention, because this lamp will produce strong and dazzling direct light, which will produce obvious shadows and strong contrast between light and shade. If the light shines directly on the white ceiling, wall or reflector, the diffused light will be more natural and soft. Usually, if women take pictures with soft light, men take pictures with strong light. But in contemporary portrait photography, this rule is bound to be broken. There is no gender difference in light, but it should reflect your style and convey your emotions.

If you like to shoot indoors with a flash, try to avoid using a flash integrated with the camera (whether it is a built-in flash or an external flash connected to the top of the camera through hot shoes), unless it can bounce or diffuse the light of the flash in some way, but be careful not to diffuse the light to the colored ceiling, otherwise the whole picture will be covered with color.

The position of the camera and the position of the subject also need to be carefully considered, because any change in position will change the audience's perspective on the picture. The half-profile portrait of a character will have a natural sense of informality, especially when the model is staring at the camera. If it is a frontal portrait, it will appear more formal, disturbing and antagonistic in the eyes of the audience. If the subject is sideways, shoot the outline of the other person. It will highlight the nose and chin (the effect may make the model happy or unhappy). But for portrait photography, the subject seems to be thinking about important issues in the distance in fantasy. But if you switch to fashion photography, it will show the model's complete indifference to the camera or the audience.

Tilting the subject slightly will make him (her) look more relaxed and kind to the audience, just like the characters in the picture have secrets to share with the audience. On the other hand, if the subject leans back away from the camera, he will look distant and indifferent, although it will make the body look slimmer and the picture look more elegant.