​Skills for Shooting Portrait works

Skills for Shooting Portrait works

Head and shoulders like a "standard" lens (35 mm to 50 mm lens; 75-90 - mm lens of medium-sized camera) is not commonly used for shooting portraits, because standard lens requires the photographer must be close to the subject, in order to obtain sufficient size of the head and shoulders. So close to amplify the subject features -- will become long nose, chin outward, the back of the head will be smaller than normal. Shooting canvas prints portraits usually requires the use of long lens focal length than the standard lens, especially in the head and shoulders like shooting or 3/4 length portrait. According to the experience, then to choose the lens focal length should be twice the film diagonal. About 2.25 inches square film X5.72 cm (5.72 cm), it is best to use 100-120 mm lens. For 2.25 inch X2.75 inches (2.25 cm X6.95) camera, with 110-135 - mm focal length lens. This small telephoto lens between the camera and the subject provides a larger work space. Perspective is normal at the same time, the subject will not contort.

If the space is enough big, you can also use a longer lens head and shoulders. For 35 mm film, for example, very suitable for use head and shoulders like a 200 mm lens. This is because its depth is very shallow, can make the background completely fuzzy, background will not be scattered to the attention of the subject. When using maximum aperture, the focal length can provide very shallow focal plane, can be used to emphasize the eyes or face, only can also deliberately or selectively to face certain parts was very vague.

However, you should avoid using the focal length too long lens (for 35 mm film lens focal length is greater than 300 mm), the reasons are as follows: first, the deformation of perspective will --, if inappropriate working distance, subject features will like being squeezed - nose often appears on the face, two ears seems to parallel to the eyes. Also, due to the use of such long lens need to work too far away, you talk to the subjects can hardly. Are you sure you want to have normal conversations with him, crying with a loud voice, not his guide pose.

Wide Angle lens is ideal for canvas prints portraits, but getting edge subject to leave the most easy to deformation of the picture. Wide Angle lens makes prospects appear to be close to and the background into the composition of a picture. Taking this bell wide-angle image, a lovely bride body composition of S curve, in the background there is a mysterious figure is leaving. Prospects in the window light, with the background of the amount of indoor ambient light are very weak.

In some cases, using wide Angle lens is the only way to shoot portrait, now that may be because the space is limited, may also be because your job requires you to shoot a surrounding environment into your picture. Whenever possible, be sure to avoid deformation of the subject. Using wide Angle lens, let your subject is always in the center of the picture can not deformation, because that position the least deformation. Subject to the picture edge, the greater the degree of deformation. Head will lengthen, and into a lopsided. Arms and legs become unusually long. If appear this kind of situation, you may change a wider Angle lens, so that the left edge of your subject, move to the middle of the frame. If your subject is in the room or office, try to let her or him in a corner of the room, this room lines will be collected in the middle of the picture, to him.

When you meet the subject of very thin, or trim, sometimes taken their positive is also very good. Three quarters length and portrait when 3/4 length and portrait, suggest you use the focal length of lens. In this case, the lens can provide normal perspective, when the distance between the camera and the subject than the head and shoulders as far as you. When using a standard lens, you will meet the only problem is that the subject and the background may be difficult to separate from the vision. It is best to make the background a little fuzzy, so the viewer's attention will be placed upon the subject, and not as the background, using the standard lens, the depth of field is bigger, so even with large aperture, it is hard to separate the subject and background.

When shooting group portrait, you often have to use a wide Angle lens. Discuss the background of the above then may appear more prominent. Using wide Angle lens is often can you make some people are filmed, and also the only way to maintain suitable working distance.

Here discussed the lens and the depth of field of some basic questions, first of all, the shorter lens naturally has a greater depth of field than the telephoto lens. This is the image with a telephoto lens, it is important to pay special attention to the precise focus. Second, you distance from the subject, the less the depth of field. When you take a personal facial features, make sure you use the aperture has enough depth of field, can make clear the whole face. Third, medium-sized camera depth of field is less than 35 mm camera lens depth of field. Produced by the 50 mm lens on the 35 mm camera depth of field is greater than medium on the camera lens (75 mm), the depth of field -- even if the lens aperture and distance with the subject are exactly the same. This is important because many photographers believe that if they use a larger type of film, can improve the canvas prints the quality of the portraits. Like watching the clouds the dimension of a larger model can improve the quality, just because the size of the film. With the increase of wide, focusing actually become more critical.

However, due to the shrinking aperture and accurately detect the depth of field, the viewfinder screen often become very dark, so you should also learn how to quickly read deeply, framing and practice measuring distance by heart. Of course, if you can understand the various features of your lens is better. You should know before you use most often on the lens aperture of its clarity and depth of field. Some digital cameras allow you too immediately after the shoot can zoom in the back of a camera LCD screen, check the details of the picture. People prefer this kind of function, and don't like through the viewfinder image in the process of narrowing the lens aperture analysis, because the images are often very dark and blur.