A lovely child, why do parents become ugly as soon as they take pictures? Professional photographer gives you the answer.

With the advent of the Internet age, more and more young parents are keen on sunbathing on social platforms. After all, children are the epitome of parents' values, and others' praise for their looks is the best affirmation of parents' values. In addition, sunbathing allows parents to share their love for their children and witness the beauty of the world with relatives and friends.

Like many parents, Ms. Chen is also a novice nanny who loves to bask in the sun. Although Ms. Chen will feel particularly happy when she is recognized by relatives and friends, she feels extremely hard every time she takes pictures of her children.

According to Ms. Chen, although her daughter is quiet, every time she takes a photo, Ms. Chen needs to spend a lot of time to take a satisfactory photo.

"Obviously, the child is cute, but I don't know why. As long as I take a photo, my face value will be greatly reduced, as if I am not particularly photogenic. "

In order to solve this problem, Ms. Chen also specializes in learning photography skills online, but the photos taken from it are still difficult to satisfy her.

In real life, I believe many parents have encountered such problems. Obviously, their children are particularly cute, but they can be chopped up as soon as they take pictures, and they can't even see anything good at all. Therefore, every time parents take pictures of their children, they have to take a lot of pictures before they can choose the best one.

The five senses are not three-dimensional.

We observe children with the naked eye, and the children's facial features are all three-dimensional, resulting in a stronger aesthetic feeling. Parents use electronic products to take pictures of their children, but what they get is actually a flat image, and the aesthetic feeling will be lacking.

Because young children's facial features have not been fully opened, the three-dimensional sense of facial features is even more lacking. At this time, it is naturally difficult for parents to take pictures of their children.

Photo light influence

Compared with direct observation with the naked eye, the final impression presented by taking photos will also be affected by the surrounding light. For example, in the case of dim light, our naked eyes can still see a person's facial features clearly, but if the same picture is presented in the form of a photo, it will be particularly blurred and ugly.

Most young parents have never learned photography skills, and often ignore the influence of light on photos, so it is difficult for them to satisfy themselves.

In addition, the lighting effect caused by turning off the lights in the sun is not the same, and it is actually difficult for some parents to achieve the ideal effect by using the light in the sun to "fill the light".

Bad camera angle

As mentioned above, most parents have not learned professional photography skills, so when taking pictures of their children, the composition will look strange. It is worth mentioning that some shooting angles can't even be controlled by the stars, and the photos taken can't reflect the real face value level at all. This is the so-called "death angle".

It can be seen that it is not an easy task to take a good-looking photo of a child. In fact, in order to take a photo suitable for sunbathing, in addition to the above three basic points, there are other parents who should also pay attention.

Choose the right background

Some parents often hold their children in their arms or put them on the bed for convenience when taking pictures of their children. Then something will appear in the photo.

As we all know, the subject of a photo is a child, and other elements appearing in the image should be the background. But parents should be clear that when these background elements are too prominent, it will have the effect of usurping the role of the master. At this time, even if the child is cute, it will be upstaged by other items.

For example, when taking a picture of a child, there happens to be a huge Muppet Bear next to the child, and parents reduce the lens to take a complete picture, then the subject of the image will no longer be the child, but the Muppet Bear.

Pay attention to dress harmoniously.

Before taking pictures of children, parents should check their children's current clothes to see whether the accessories such as tops and trousers are coordinated, and try to avoid exaggerated color contrast. The reason why we should emphasize the harmony and unity of clothing is because it can ensure the integrity of the photo and avoid one aspect being too prominent and making the whole photo look particularly weird.

Attach importance to expression management

Since the main body of the image is children, their facial expressions are naturally very important. Parents should turn off the flash when taking pictures of their children. On the one hand, it can prevent children from being suddenly stimulated by strong light and instinctively closing their eyes. On the other hand, frequent use of flash will cause damage to children's retina and easily affect children's vision.