How to take portraits on cloudy days?

Question 1: How to take portraits on cloudy days? The weather in Beijing is changeable, and shooting in rainy days has become the most common shooting test in autumn in Beijing. Most people don't think cloudy days are a good time to shoot. On the contrary, only dark people with deep clouds challenge the photography skills of real photographers, and cloudy days with thin clouds are most suitable for shooting portraits. Teacher Ajie of Fashion Xinfeng Photography School explained: Advantages of cloudy shooting 1. Soft light quality will become very soft when shooting in the shade, and sunlight will be blocked by clouds and enter the shooting environment in a diffuse way. It's like having a super-large flash, and installing a soft light device with good effect in front of the flash. 2. The flash effect is fun. If the lighting effect is weak, you can also use your own external flash. Even if the flash output is not much, the ambient light is easily affected, which is the time to play the flash skill. On the contrary, when the sun is fierce, the objective factors of small flash are limited, and the effect is inevitably not very good. 3. Post-production charm Because the images in cloudy days are very similar to those in low light, you can see the level of light, with the emphasis on conveying warm scenes. The level of light is very different from that in sunny days. This type of work has more room for post-production, and it is easy to create a very attractive feeling. Matters needing attention in cloudy shooting 1. Correctly control the exposure. Portraits taken on sunny days are generally dull, and it is easy to cause stiff facial light and dim background when using flash to fill the light. So if the image is dark, you can add some EV to increase the exposure. If you want to eat more ambient light, you can also increase the aperture and improve the ISO. Pay attention to one principle: I would rather be slightly underexposed than overexposed. 2. Correctly control the white balance When shooting portraits on cloudy days, if you want to make people brighter, you must work hard on color matching. After all, not all images have to feel bright and colorful. 3. When shooting on cloudy days, the ambient light color temperature is cold, which is a good shooting situation for portrait photographers. As long as the main body is supplemented with warm light, it can highlight the main body, such as: let customers and models wear more lively and bright clothes; Let it be in front of a darker background ... A good portrait photography requires photographers to master different shooting environments, get used to the shooting atmosphere, change their views on the environment and challenge the troubles of unfavorable factors.

Question 2: How to take pictures on cloudy days? -Techniques for shooting landscapes and portraits on cloudy days. When shooting on cloudy days, the general ambient light is poor. At this time, tripod can be used to ensure the clarity of the picture, or exposure compensation can be appropriately increased to correct the brightness of the fine picture. You can also use polarizers and warm filters to enhance the color saturation of the picture and strengthen the main body. 2. Change the shooting angle. The sky is always gray on cloudy days, so you can try to avoid the sky occupying a large area in the picture when composing. Make the best use of the scenery on the ground, not the gloomy sky. Although there is no strong light and shadow effect on cloudy days, the color reproduction is very accurate, and the composition should be expressed in vivid and diverse ways. 3. Find the contrast. Although the cloudy sky is gray and not very conspicuous, the color of vegetation will appear brighter under scattered light. It can highlight the gloom and depression of the sky through the strong color contrast of reference objects and create visual appeal. 4. Setting off the sense of space and distance with the foreground is the pursuit of shooting landscape works. To choose a good prospect, if there is no prospect to set off, the sense of space and distance will be weakened and the appeal of the whole picture will be lost. It should also be noted that the light is dark on cloudy days, so you can use a large aperture to blur the scenery outside the subject, so as to obtain the effect of combining reality with reality. 5. For reference, don't directly use the flash to create the effect (it is easy to cause the interview lines to be stiff and the background to be dim), open the aperture and use the shutter for a little longer, or raise the ISO by one level. This can make the subject and background receive light more consistently, and will not cause the subject to be too bright and the background to be too dark. Shooting on cloudy days would rather be underexposed than overexposed. Once it is over-exploded, not only the level is damaged, but also the color is dull, which is difficult to make up in the later stage. 2. Correctly control the white balance, the color temperature will be higher on cloudy days, and the color tone of the photos will be slightly blue. Adjust the color temperature through the "cloudy day" white balance option in the camera, or adjust the white balance through manual metering. 3. Make good use of colors to wear lively and bright colors to avoid the gloomy feeling on cloudy days; Or create a color contrast between the characters and the background, and create a sense of hierarchy and space by contrast to avoid shooting in cloudy days, soft light and too dull pictures. A good photo, even if it is taken on a cloudy day, must be luminous.

Question 3: The ISO automatic photography skills of SLR cameras on cloudy days can have little impact. Just look at the exposure meter in the viewfinder with the shutter and aperture, and the aperture is slightly larger.

The main problem is the color temperature. The color temperature on cloudy days is very high, about 6000k or above. You must choose white balance on cloudy days, otherwise the picture will turn blue, and it will be more accurate if you use custom white balance.

Question 4: How to shoot a cloudy portrait outdoors? It doesn't matter whether it is cloudy or sunny. First, adjust the white balance, and use the existing light source to add 1~2 flashlights. The choice of scene is very important. Jeans are blue, choose a light background, and the general portrait aperture can be used. Improve some saturation, pay attention to color composition, and talk about the rest later.

Question 5: What should I pay attention to when shooting a cloudy portrait with a SLR? Please tell me something about outdoor shooting. It doesn't matter whether it is cloudy or sunny. First, adjust the white balance, and use the existing light source to add 1~2 flashlights. The choice of scene is very important. Jeans are blue, choose a light background, and the general portrait aperture can be used. Improve some saturation, pay attention to color composition, and talk about the rest later.

Question 6: How to take a good portrait in rainy days and increase the aperture to improve the exposure?

Question 7: How to take people-oriented artistic photos on cloudy days? On cloudy days, the sun is blocked by clouds, and the lighting of the scene mainly depends on scattered light. There is no obvious projection on the ground and water surface, the contrast of the scene is reduced, the light is soft and the difference between the light and the scene is small. On cloudy days, the color tone is blue, and the color temperature is above 7000k K K. The incident angle of light on the surface of the object is not obvious, and it has certain directivity. Subtle and inconspicuous transition projection between light and dark levels.

At this time, the light tones of the face and hands of the characters change softly and delicately. Still life painting is soft, elegant and colorful. Color shooting on cloudy days also has its shortcomings, such as poor stereoscopic effect, small contrast between light and dark, weak sense of air perspective and uniform gray level of the picture. So pay attention to the choice of foreground when shooting. Dark foreground can strengthen the spatial perspective, resulting in the contrast between hue and object size. When shooting a picture with human facial expressions, the face should be in the bright part of the picture, and the background color should be darker than the face. Try to avoid bright objects and the sky as the background. The scenery configuration also increases the contrast as much as possible.

Control the depth of field and cause changes in reality. When the illumination is low on cloudy days, the aperture is often increased to meet the exposure needs, and the depth of field is reduced, which is not conducive to expressing the sense of space. At the same time, cloudy days also provide a good opportunity for slow photography. Shooting cars and people on the road slowly with a long lens can blur the background, highlight the main image and create a certain environmental atmosphere.

Question 8: How to take portraits on cloudy days? You must choose full manual, face spot metering, single focus mode, large aperture, low ISO, and the background should not be too bright.

Question 9: How does the photography school take good portrait photos on cloudy days? Most people don't think cloudy days are a good time to take pictures, but only cloudy days with heavy clouds or cloudy days with rapid climate change will really pose great technical challenges to photographers, and cloudy days with bright light are just suitable for taking portraits. If you want to take a good portrait on a cloudy day, you should pay attention to at least three important factors: correct control of exposure, correct control of white balance and good use of colors. First of all, we noticed that people photographed on cloudy days are generally dull, and when using flash to fill the light, it is easy to form the phenomenon that the light on the face of the person is stiff and the background is dim. In terms of exposure, the reason why the face is harder than the main body or the background is dark is that the main body fills too much light. Therefore, attention should be paid to the exposure in cloudy days: first, try not to use the flash, open the aperture and use a slightly longer shutter time. If the shutter can't be maintained at a safe shutter, consider raising ISO by one level (or using a tripod). In this way, at least the subject and background can be more consistent. The subject is too bright and the background is too dark. If you decide to fill the light, you can use: a. hit the fill light on the reflector and then reflect it on the face. The flash can be controlled manually. Pay attention to the intensity of fill light, not higher than the light on the spot, that is, just do a little fill light. C. make good use of exposure combinations. The exposure effect of spotlight is controlled by shutter time and aperture, while the exposure effect of flash is only controlled by aperture within synchronous speed. Proper use of exposure combination can achieve the best effect. When shooting on cloudy days, an important principle is that it is better to be slightly underexposed than overexposed. Once overexposed, not only the layer is lost, but also the color is dull, which is difficult to make up for in post-production. The application of white balance and color If you want a model to look brighter when shooting portraits on cloudy days, you can actually work hard on color matching. For example, if the model is placed in front of a dark background, the skin will appear whiter in perception; If the model is placed in front of a shallow background, the skin will look darker in perception. In addition, the color temperature on cloudy days will be high. If the camera's automatic white balance adjustment ability is exceeded, the tone of the photo will be slightly blue. If your camera has the "cloudy white balance" option, you can use this item to adjust the color temperature. Let the model wear lively and bright clothes to avoid the feeling of cloudy and gloomy days. Let the model look whiter and brighter in front of a darker background. Although it is cloudy, the brightness of the sky may still be several levels worse than the model's skin. Pay attention to this factor when shooting. Set the "cloudy" white balance option to avoid the blue feeling of the photo. If the cloudy day is also regarded as a "twilight" environment, then we will find that the sun is covered by clouds. Although the light is also diffuse, in the open place, the light is too weak and there is no level of light and shadow. Soft light, especially the soft tone when shooting portraits, is suitable for expressing the texture of the skin, but the whole picture is easy to appear dull. Some scenes, because of the structure or occlusion of the scene, the light has a slight layering, which is not obvious and difficult to identify, but we can strengthen it and bring it out in the post-production process. With this kind of thinking, we found that when shooting portraits on cloudy days, the consideration of the scene will be an important factor if we want to show the sense of hierarchy and the beauty of color.

Question 10: How to take pictures on cloudy days? -Techniques for taking scenery and portraits on cloudy days (6) 1. Control the exposure correctly. Don't use the flash directly (it is easy to make the interview lines stiff and the background dim), open the aperture and use a longer shutter time, or raise ISO by one level. This can make the subject and background receive light more consistently, and will not cause the subject to be too bright and the background to be too dark. Shooting on cloudy days would rather be underexposed than overexposed. Once it is over-exploded, not only the level is damaged, but also the color is dull, which is difficult to make up in the later stage.