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​How to Make an Appealing Portrait

How to Make an Appealing Portrait


Every face is unique, human face is an extremely attractive as a whole works of art. Despite all the face with the same physical structure, but they look not the same. We can say that they are a unique original works, for yourself or your family friends clap good-looking portrait, and turn them into beautiful canvas prints.

About a person's face is not the same, but the difference in some people's face are more obvious, some people in the face is not significant, but the two completely identical half face does not exist. As a photographer, you can make full use of about half a face of diversity; consciously focus on show to each other or popularity or personalized side. If you focus on the right face, the model will look in the photo will be more reserved, cool and self-control, of course, may also appear more affinity, active and friendly. On the contrary, if you focus on the performance model of left face, he would appear emotional bold and unrestrained, real and direct, of course, there are may appear more burnout, autism and hostility. By using the corresponding Angle and light, can easily highlight a half face are focusing on the quality. That way, you can in the process of guiding portrait photography, through a certain method, make the model according to your film concept accordingly.


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But if your focus is the only model appearance, want him to seem extremely beautiful in lens, then you can be targeted to find each other to make a so-called "chocolate" - the picturesque, piercing face can render is like sweet chocolate, to bring people the enjoyment of pleasure. Through numerous attempts we concluded that both models himself and the viewer, all agree that in the case of most of the lower face looks more gold and moving. Left face is so called "sweet chocolate". Even if the experiment participants watched a group of after photos of secular reflection imaging, they still think left face more attractive. Some people know to stay in their own appearance on see its image in the mirror, so they are sometimes difficult to recognize and accept you in the photo. The reason is that, imaging in the mirror and picture on the left and right upside down each other, thus looks and impression of you in the photo. In a very special case, photos can be flip horizontal, get a new picture, to get each other to accept. But generally speaking, this approach is considered taboo in the portrait photography, should avoid to use.

The characters in the advertisement often face off in perfect symmetry. But, in fact, most people's face is not symmetrical. Further, the greater the difference of about half a face, the face percentage deviation average more far, the owner of this face will appear unique personality, which is more easier to identify. Although these asymmetric face angular, does not conform to the traditional aesthetic, but often it is this kind of asymmetry contains a unique tension and charm, which is to create a picture of expressive character portrait canvas prints a condition of the photo, this picture will convey more than the "beauty". This kind of character portrait photo viewer is promoted to gauge a person's personality characteristics, and analyze their life experience.

A man's face has been changed, because of this, individuality portrait to have such a good expression. Healthy or unhealthy lifestyle, bumpy fate of wind and rain baptism, or the joy of every heart smile will make their own unique mark on the face. Winding as the years go on, we can from a person's face is more and more obviously read his inner world, traits of character, and the people to the idea of life. Famous playwright George Bernard shaw once this phenomenon has done the following evaluation: 30 years since the beginning, everyone has to take responsibility for their own appearance. It is this personal life experiences, regardless of the vicissitudes, for the social animals that seem especially attractive. For that matter, to performance characteristics of the face can be taken as a theme. As a result, it can also be recognized his face these by gift, full of life accumulation of aging.


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Use under a frame model is a focal length range is 85 ~ 85 mm lens of imaging effect and the human eye visual effects described above are very similar. Such lens focal length to make the head portrait in facial ministry, or bust photos look fine narrow thin, therefore very suitable for standard portrait photography. With short focal length lens, on the contrary, the head is broad, and loss of aesthetic feeling. These include focal distance scope between 50 ~ 70 mm lens. If use the focal length of 35 mm or less wide Angle lens, the lens face will be part of the serious distortion of aesthetic feeling. Close to the camera's nose can appear unusually large, away from the ear of a few centimeters away look very small. This imaging effect should only be used in the exaggerated cartoonish photography creation.

But even the telephoto doesn't really apply to the face of photography. More than 150 mm telephoto will filter out the facial spatial dimension, to make it look very complication. The two-dimensional plane does not conform to the way we see things, this present photos look very unnatural. But compared with wide Angle lens, imaging defects produced by using this lens is not so obvious, that there are times when a 200 mm telephoto will be mistakenly think that is suitable for shooting portraits. Want another way, the focal length is under full format specification. That affect the picture composition in fact is the imaging of the camera Angle (and the size of the sensor) rather than the focal length, in view of this, you should pay attention to the cutting coefficient of each camera or format coefficients. With APS - C sensor camera should choose 55 ~ 90 mm focal length, standard of four thirds sensor camera should choose the focal length of 40 ~ 65 mm. Master these skills you can begin to take some beautiful portraits of his family, and made of canvas prints will be a nice gift.

3rd Dec 2015

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