What are the skills of close-range photography (close-range shooting skills)

1. Good close-up photos of people are the most infectious, interesting and popular. Although photography can't describe and describe the process of people's ideological activities in detail, it is often better than a paragraph in expressing people's mood and emotional state at a certain moment. Because good close-up photos of people can not only clearly express people's facial expressions and show their inner world, but also vividly depict people's mental outlook, personality characteristics and psychological changes. Therefore, people often say that close-up is the life of figure photography. Of course, just because people like close-up photos doesn't mean that people like all close-up photos. People are still not interested in those boring close-up photos.

2. Good close-up photos of people should have such conditions as both form and spirit. People have different manners, different characteristics and different personalities. People's demeanor runs through people's behavior, actions, joys and sorrows. Which one is the most representative and how to express it correctly? This requires us to observe and study people's different expressions in different situations, grasp the characteristics of the moment, and strive to show the inner world of the subject in our usual shooting activities or in our daily life.

3, both form and spirit, form is representation, and god is connotation. The ancients said that painting does not paint the appearance of everything, but takes the god of its connotation. God here actually means "love". Bai Juyi, a great poet in the Tang Dynasty, once said, "Love comes first". A good close-up photo of a person should not only capture the image of the person and explain who he is, but also capture the "emotion" of the person and tell people what he is thinking. The "emotion" mentioned here is to vividly depict the true feelings of characters, grasp people's emotions and emotional characteristics, and express people's inner world. In this sense, taking a good picture of facial expressions and grasping their specific emotions is the key to successfully depicting the psychological activities of characters and taking a good close-up of characters. Sometimes it's like meticulous painting in Chinese painting. Through the delicate description, people seem to see the meaning outside the picture and hear the implication from the photo.

4. The charm of close-up photos of people also lies in paying attention to expressing people's temperament. That is, an inner strength. The combination of form and spirit is actually the unity of the external image and internal temperament of the characters, and the ingenious combination of life truth and artistic truth in the artistic expression of photography.

5, good close-up photos of people, but also good lighting. The use of light is one of the important means to shoot close-ups of people. The light for taking close-ups of people is nothing more than natural light and artificial light. The natural light in these two kinds of light is the main light source for shooting close-ups of people. As far as the angle of light projection is concerned, the main body of the close-up person photographed by frontal light receives uniform light and has fewer shadows; In sidelight shooting, the light receiving area of the characters is small, half or most of them are in the shadow, with strong contrast between light and shade and strong three-dimensional sense. Side light can also make up for the lack of eyelid shape, which has certain defects in the face. These two kinds of light are more suitable for taking close-ups of people. Backlight takes close-up photos of people. The light comes from people's backs, and their faces are all in the shadows. The outline is very clear. If the fill light is appropriate, the close-up photos of people are effective, artistic and infectious, which is an ideal hard light for taking close-up photos of people.

6. Artificial light has more advantages than natural light to shoot portraits. It can arrange the light source artificially according to the photographer's intention to achieve the desired effect. In the creation of close-up photos of people, it is the easiest to succeed.

7. Both standard lens and wide-angle lens can be used to shoot close-ups of people, but the most ideal lens is a long focal length lens or a medium focal length lens. Such as 90mm, 135mm or 150mm, 200mm, etc. Because this kind of lens, especially the telephoto lens used at a long distance, has a small angle of view and can be shot far away from the subject, which can not only concentrate the picture, but also capture the natural expression of the subject; Moreover, the depth of field of the telescope head is relatively short, and the foreground and background are easily blurred except where the focus is clear and distinguishable. It seems that this is the disadvantage of long focal length lens. When shooting close-ups of people, it has become an advantage it can use to highlight the subject to the maximum extent.

8. Taking close-ups of people with telephoto lenses and corresponding apertures can blur the background and highlight the subject, but it should be noted that with the increase of focal length, the shutter speed will also increase accordingly. Generally speaking, the shutter speed can be determined according to the focal length of the lens, such as 200mm lens 1/200 seconds; For a 250mm lens, 1/250 seconds is appropriate, and so on. In short, the speed cannot be lower than the digital percentage corresponding to the focal length of the lens. Otherwise, the image will be blurred. Because the longer the focal length of the lens, the greater the weight of the lens, and the more difficult it is to hold. If you use a tripod when shooting, you don't have to be restricted by this, so it's easy to take high-definition photos.