How to take a perfect portrait photo at night?

1, lenses with different focal lengths take different night portraits.

Facing different scenes and different shooting distances, we need to use lenses with different focal lengths to shoot. Night portraits need to use lenses with different focal lengths according to the shooting intention and shooting distance. The choice and collocation of different lenses have different portrait effects.

A medium telephoto lens with a focal length of 85- 100mm is called a portrait lens, which is very suitable for portrait shooting. The portrait effect of this focal length lens is natural and true, and it will not cause facial distortion like a wide-angle lens or compression like a telephoto lens.

When shooting night portraits, wide-angle lenses are often used, mostly to leave beautiful night scenes. Many tourist night scenes need to be shot with a wide-angle lens. Using wide-angle lens can better collect more picture elements, thus reflecting the environment and setting off the atmosphere.

2. Highlight the subject of portrait shooting at night.

Many friends are often attracted by the charming night, the subject of the portrait is not prominent enough, and the picture arrangement is not reasonable. So how should we arrange it?

First, determine the interest center of the screen subject. The center of interest refers to the most striking part of the main body of the picture. It doesn't have to occupy a large area, but you must let people see the center you need to express. Generally speaking, a picture usually has only one or only one main center of interest. In China's close-ups at night, the eyes are often the center of sex.

Secondly, we should highlight the main body with concise Beijing. When shooting a portrait at night, it is easy to get a simple background or a solid background due to the background light, thus highlighting the subject. You can use white or gray walls, or let people face an empty field, so that you can get a clean and concise background.

Finally, you can also use the method of blurring the background to shoot night portraits. This method of blurring background can also eliminate the interference of messy background on the main body of the character.

When shooting portraits at night, we should also pay attention to the collocation of characters and scenery. When there are tall trees, towers, buildings and other backgrounds behind the subject, let the subject move or change the shooting position to avoid the subject overlapping with these backgrounds. Also pay attention to the color of the background, whether it is messy, etc. It will also affect the beauty of the photos.

3. Night exposure skills of portrait photography.

The digital SLR camera provides the exposure mode of "slow gate synchronous flash", which can correctly expose the background and portrait. However, when using "slow door synchronous flash", the shutter speed is slow. If the subject moves slightly or the camera vibrates, the image will be blurred, so it is best to fix it with a tripod.

4. How to shoot a portrait at night without a tripod?

Tripod is a necessary photographic equipment for taking portraits at night, but when we travel, no one will take a heavy tripod. How to shoot an ideal night portrait without a tripod?

First, high ISO and maximum exposure compensation are used together. In order to get a higher shutter speed, we can maximize the exposure compensation and use ISO 1600 to set a high sensitivity value such as ISO 3200. At the same time, turn on the anti-shake function of the camera to prevent the shake from affecting the photographing effect.

Second, use slow shutter and flash. In fact, as long as the basic skills are solid and the anti-shake function is turned on, the slow shutter of1115 seconds can also take a clear picture. Such a low shutter speed is enough to fully expose the beautiful night scene background, and with the use of flash, the ideal effect can be obtained.

Finally, you can also find a platform or support. With a stable platform, we can take portraits at night by using the self-timer function provided by digital cameras, and fully expose portraits at night at a low shutter speed.

5. How to shoot portraits at night due to insufficient light?

The biggest problem in taking portraits at night is the lack of light. This problem is relatively simple to solve, but there are several ways:

First stabilize the camera with a tripod and release it with the cable. A tripod with wireless wired release or wireless shutter controller is the best match for shooting portraits at night. It can fully expose beautiful night scenes with a low shutter speed, and with the flash, people can be exposed normally, so Czech allows you to record beautiful night scenes and portraits with sufficient shutter speed.

Second, use high ISO to increase exposure compensation. Using high ISO and increasing exposure compensation can improve the exposure value of photos and obviously improve the problem of insufficient light. However, high ISO will bring more noise.

Third, make good use of the aperture. Why not use the maximum aperture as the first method? This is because the aperture is directly related to the depth of field, and the maximum aperture can only highlight the subject, which may blur the night scene background. Therefore, what aperture to use depends on the photographer's Issu, and the background of portrait photos taken with small aperture is relatively clear.

6, restore the night portrait color skills

For many friends, the color of night portraits is difficult to control. Under different lighting conditions, portraits at night will show different colors. For example, portrait photos taken by indoor incandescent lamps and rain bar energy-saving lamps will show different colors. The color of the indoor photo is blue, but it is warm brown in the bar, and it will show another orange under the street lamp.

Tips: Finally, don't forget that the abnormal skin color of a portrait can also be changed by post-processing. When shooting, photos can be stored in RAW format, and the hue and color of photos can be changed without loss through related software.