2012/03/14

What is the key to the success of Portrait photography

What people photography? What is the key to the success of people photography?
People photography is static or dynamic character of the subject, focus on depicting the physical appearance and mental outlook, which direct the performance of a photographer. Any content involving characters and a variety of themes, characters belong to the scope of people photography. Such as: portrait, family life, friends and family togetherness, gracious couple, married Shou rituals, childhood documentary, campus dynamic, elderly evening scene, tourist spot, fashion wear, stage performances, sports activities, work site, festive event, customs, social news, body art, a wide variety everywhere optional. In general, the field of photographic art, with this specific category, in addition to portrait photography, more families, children, travel, weddings, sports, stage, social documentary and even the human body and other photography, distinctive interrelated, often concurrently attributed to people photography series, collectively referred to as people photography.
So far, the men have been since 1839 the birth of photography photography art often shoot new issue, and summarized the  key to successful people photography, is to "Vivid". In real life, each person's physical appearance and character of the same mental outlook and the intelligentsia ever-changing. Photo of a figure, captures the subject's demeanor and emotional, but the appearance did not perform well, you can not afford to take a closer look, the lack of artistic expression; Conversely, if the looks remarkably like the demeanor and emotional without depiction of the character performance is bound to rigid, no charm. Therefore, people photography can not be limited to beat like, but should be based on the appearance of the characters weaknesses and highlight the beauty, to appearance, better able to communicate and mental outlook of carved figures, so that the characters in the picture looks better than The real subject is more beautiful, more lively, more energetic. Only be done first of all to "shape", to be expressive.
Comply with the requirements of the "Vivid" to make people photography, photographer in addition to correctly grasp the camera to use technology, but also to observe the excellent photography and learning about photography knowledge on the basis of careful observation often in life the various characters, seriously consider, develop quick thinking and judgment, so that the practice of people photography, unique eye deliberately novelty, seize the opportunity to select the theme, typical and vivid moment, and seize the subject to shoot an increase lifelike pictures of people.
Second, what kinds of shooting people photography?
Figure photography shoot no more than the shot put,  capture, and put \ caught by combining three. Have their own characteristics and requirements, and each other, complement each other, respectively, constitute the indispensable figure photography modeling approach.
1, shot put
The entire photographic process, and always subject is fully aware of someone in their own pictures, so that photographers can have sufficient time to do shoot ready and subject to be at the mercy, to complete filming. Thus, the shooting mode is also known as mercy or can be called the shooting mode, the main full-known and used for portraits, group photos, commemorative photos, and advertising photos. But in the mercy of circumstances, the photographer should be multi-trying to subject ideas to relax, to coincide with the shooting.
2, snap
In the process of the whole photographer, never let the subject know that someone in their own pictures by the photographer to directly consume the typical character activities and vivid moment. Therefore, it can be called the shooting of the main I do not know. The shooting in this way, and perhaps composition, used up less than satisfactory, the photographic object, but in the unrestrained activities of state and manners are more natural look. But the subject needs more life experience and keen eyesight, good at crawling the subject is the most typical and the most fleeting activities of the various characters, the most engaging moments, to press the shutter.
Placed grab combination
The entire photographic process, although the subject to know someone in their own pictures, but does not tell the exact time of the shooting, so that the subject of attention is still focused on the things that are engaged in, and the photographer able to have some time, choose the best angle and light, and after adjustment and at the mercy of the smaller range of pressing the shutter at the appropriate time. This way of shooting, adopting both the strengths of both and snapshot photography, so caught in the pendulum swing \ in the crawl. Therefore, also known as Swing \ scratched, can also be called the main imperfect shooting.