How to take good photos in portrait photography?

It is the basic requirement of portrait shooting to truly and perfectly reproduce the characters' images and portray their mental outlook. It is necessary not only to generally express the external characteristics of the characters, but also to reveal the photographer's internal character and mental outlook. An excellent portrait photography should accurately show the external characteristics of the characters, accurately reveal the personality characteristics of the characters, accurately grasp the spirit of the times of the characters, and accurately use the background and accompaniment of the entrusted characters.

First, accurately express the external characteristics of the characters.

Accurately expressing the external image and characteristics of characters is one of the most basic requirements of portrait photography. First of all, according to the characteristics of the characters, we should make appropriate modeling, choose a good shooting angle, adjust the lighting and correctly handle these problems, so as to accurately express the appearance and image of the characters. Secondly, we should be good at discovering the typical characteristics of characters, truly expressing the beauty of portrait art, and not over-embellishing and blindly pursuing beautiful appearance, which will make the characters lose their true personality.

Second, accurately reveal the personality characteristics of the characters.

Portrait photography is vivid. Shooting a character is not just about looking alike, but more importantly, whether the characters in the photo are vivid and have personality. Where does vividness and individuality come from? It is usually reflected by eyes and movements. The eyes are the windows of the soul, which can show the thoughts and personalities of the characters. Action is the pillar of the soul, which needs implicit, natural and appropriate modeling. Therefore, to engage in portrait photography, we must first understand people, life and the expressions of different people in society. We should also have enthusiasm and creative passion, be good at observing and understanding the inner world of the subject, and learn to use the skills of instant capture to really shoot vivid and cultural works.

Portrait photography should be "both in form and spirit", which requires photographers to organically integrate the characters' personality and appearance characteristics, make full use of the characters' morphological language, capture the moments when their emotions are revealed at any time, and profoundly show the characters' personality characteristics.

Third, accurately grasp the characteristics of people of the times.

Man is the subject of society. Everyone lives in the objective world of society, and the development and progress of society is manifested through the behavior of characters. As people living in the real society, they can't live without the surrounding environment and specific social conditions. Their clothes and makeup keep up with the trend of the times, and their occupation, age, status, hobbies, culture and national beliefs are all related to their images, which should be accurately expressed in portrait photography.

Fourth, the accurate use of background.

When taking pictures of people, the background of the picture is very important, because it helps the audience understand the intention of the subject and the photographer. No matter what the background is made up of, whether it is people's houses, street scenes of people's cities, or their entertainment and leisure places, as long as it is related to human living environment and living space, it will provide us with useful information about the photographer. On the screen, there should be a visual balance between the environment and the main characters. On the one hand, we should include as many environmental factors as possible in the picture to explain the subject, on the other hand, we must never let the background drown the subject.