Portrait composition taboo

Lead: Photography is an art. Like painting, composition plays an extremely important role. It supports the soul of portrait photography as a skeleton. Let me tell you about the taboos in portrait photography composition. You can pay more attention when taking pictures.

1. Hold your head high? Leave blank?

Pay attention to Chinese painting? Leave blank? The technology of photography is the same. If the subject takes up too many pictures, it will not only be detrimental to the cutting in the post-production process of photos. At the same time, it will make the picture messy, lose artistic conception and fail to highlight the theme. Sometimes the difference between a high hand and a low hand is between the limits.

The three-point composition above puts the model in the center of the picture, with the sunset and rocks on it, and the visual space produces a sense of extension, which highlights the subject more.

2. Image segmentation

When taking a picture, we should deal with the position of the subject and her movement trend. If the model's head turns to one side, it should be given a certain shooting space along the direction in which her head extends. If the model is going to a certain point, it is necessary to leave a blank in the direction of the position. Don't take the wrong direction. Otherwise, the picture will have a sense of imbalance in two, and the foreground and background will be incoherent and fragmented. This disharmony and disunity will give people a feeling of tension and crowding, which will make the picture look dull and depressing.

The picture above is a typical example. The model's eyes look to the right as if waiting for something. As the guide line of the picture, the railing guides the viewer's line of sight to extend to the right, giving people room for daydreaming without losing the sense of beauty.

3. The theme is not prominent

When shooting, make a composition according to the intention you want to express and the type you want to shoot. If you want people to shoot a tall image, you can shoot it from behind. On the contrary, if you want to get a short image, you can choose to shoot it from the top and horizontally. In short, you should have a theme that you want to express when composing a composition, and design the exhibition form around this theme, otherwise the photos will be very rigid.

The color in the above picture is strong and rich, and the model's face is bold and accurate, highlighting the three-dimensional facial features and blurred eyes of the model. Diagonal composition makes the picture full of mysterious beauty.

4. Improper proportion

When shooting people, we should also pay attention to the proportion of people in the picture. If it is not a full-body photo, then in order to ensure the harmony of the picture or highlight a certain theme, should the model's body proportion be carried out? Cut? . Generally speaking, the commonly used interception parts include: above the knee, waist-high, above the chest, shoulders, head and head. If it is not cut well, it may give people a strange feeling.

The idea of this picture is very clever. Using the composition of the mirror, the viewer is taken to the world that the photographer wants to show at once, and the picture is natural and vivid. More importantly, the gradual composition and cutting ratio from the chest to the waist to the whole body not only show the perfect figure of the model, but also make the picture full.

5. usurp the role of master

For the beautiful shape of the subject, some friends may attach a lot of miscellaneous things to the model, or arrange conspicuous scenery in the background, such as bright flowers, or various buildings or objects. These elements will probably usurp the role of the model. When shooting, the foreground and background should be blurred or faded as much as possible, and these elements should be avoided from unnecessarily damaging the integrity of the image, such as long chairs in the park, railings above railings, handrails of stairs, slender columns and so on.

The ingenuity of the above picture lies in putting the characters on the railing with the same height, and the vertical railing produces a feeling of extending up and down, which makes the picture more compact. Light and shadow make the bronzed skin color of the model and the three-dimensional body not overlap, which makes the theme stand out and has tension.

6. This picture is unbalanced

In composition, the harmony between the tone structure and the color structure of the picture is not taken into account, which leads to the imbalance of the color and tone of the picture and affects the photo effect.

In the above picture, the picture is mainly circular, and the shooting model also relies on metal objects to give full play to this point, showing a kind of arc beauty that complements each other. Blue clothes and brown hair blend in with the overall tone of the photo, which is very harmonious.