I found that no, when taking pictures of people, the most difficult thing is actually the expression, movement, and posture, because it determines the feeling of the photo.
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Good morning, I am Ye Zi. Today is the 1937th day of photography morning self-study with everyone. Today we continue to look at the photos of classmate Xiao Shuang that I took two days ago. This time I want to show you two at a time. These two pictures have one thing in common. I don’t know if you have found this common point. It’s not about her. They were all sitting inside or outside the same room, but they all had a very nice smile.
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Actually, this is my first time meeting Xiaoshuang. When I first met and started shooting, I was still a little nervous, embarrassed, and at a loss, not knowing what to do. What we are most taboo about at this time is actually letting the model stand in an empty place with empty hands. For example, there is a small courtyard, and there is nothing in the middle of the courtyard. Then you ask the model to stand there, holding nothing in her hands, not even a mobile phone, not a water glass. At this time, you will indeed feel that you don't know where to put your hands, and you don't know where to put your eyes, and you don't know where to look. Your hands are empty, and your eyes are empty. How to do it? We have three ways to solve this problem.
The first way is to let the model interact with the environment. To put it bluntly, let her touch something. For example, she can lean against a wall, sit on a chair, or lie on a sofa, but no matter what, she must stick to the environment. In this way, she will feel much more at ease and very comfortable. sense of security. This is the first easy method.
The second method is to keep her hands empty. For example, she can pick up her mobile phone to take pictures, she can read a book, she can wear a pair of wired headphones, and then gently cover the headphones with both hands, as if she is listening to music. , you can also play some songs for her, so that her mood will be easy to enter the state.
So these two methods are not particularly powerful. The most powerful is to find something to do, which means to let the model do something, let her enter a certain story and enter a certain process. At this time, she won't care that you are filming her. What if she is still thinking in her mind: She is taking a picture of me, I must perform better, and I must take the picture more beautifully, what should I do? What if he makes me look ugly? Is my current posture correct? ... Whenever she thinks about these things, her eyes are acting up and she is not in the mood, so we let her find something to do.
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Okay, so what are you looking for? It must be something that the model is most familiar with, or something that makes her happiest. For example, when we arrived at classmate Lin Yi’s yard and found her two cats, classmate Xiao Shuang’s eyes shone and she loved them so much that she hugged them and took photos. Look, this picture looks like it was captured, right? It was very natural and showed true feelings. Xiao Shuang liked this photo the most, so she explained to me: You see, I look silly like this, but this is what I really look like. I only look like this when I really see something I particularly like. Such an expression.
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We actually bought a watermelon before entering the yard, then we took a spoon and held the watermelon on our legs as if we were about to eat it. Why are you smiling so happily in this photo? The explanation Xiao Shuang gave me was that she said: Because I really wanted to eat it at that time, but it was a prop and I couldn't eat it, so she thought this scene was very funny, and I couldn't help but want to eat it. You see, how important it is for a model to find something she is happy, familiar with, and likes to do.Because our subjects and our models are not professionals, they are all ordinary people, so if you ask her to act out a natural feeling, it would be too difficult for them, so just let them act themselves.
Finally, let’s add one more point. The composition of these two photos is actually very particular. Both of them were taken flat and perpendicular to the wall. There is no upward, no downward, no left, no right, so The horizontal and vertical lines in the picture are all horizontal and vertical, so the composition of the picture is relatively quiet. This composition method is especially suitable for scenes with a little clutter. You can make these clutter less cluttered and suddenly become orderly.
Another thing these two photos have in common is that they both have a sense of hierarchy. For example, in the sideways picture of a cat holding a cat, the white one on the right is actually the white door of this room, so it belongs to the foreground, then the characters are the middle shot, and the broken wall is the background and long shot. The same goes for the person holding the watermelon. The character itself is the foreground, the door in the middle is the mid-ground, and the wall behind it is the background. It has a sense of layering, and the picture will indeed be richer and better-looking.
That’s all for today. If you want to see more photos of Xiao Shuang and photos of other styles that I took, you can help me like, repost, and click to view, so that I know you like it.
Also don’t forget, there is a free live lecture tonight, I will teach you how to use photography to monetize and make money. In fact, photography is a specialty that is particularly easy to monetize, and the ways to monetize it are also very diverse. From mobile phone photography to camera photography, from amateur to beginner to professional, you can actually find corresponding monetization methods. Even if you are not a photographer and just start other businesses, you will actually find that every business is inseparable from photography. Tonight at 8 o'clock, I will teach you how to use photography to make money. You can click on the link to watch [Monetization Guide] teach you how to make money with photography - live broadcast .
OK, that’s it for today. Today is the 1937th day that photography morning self-study will accompany you. I am Ye Zi. Every morning at 6:30, the WeChat public account “Photography Morning Self-Study” and the “Photography Morning Self-Study” column of Himalaya , See you or leave.
