The tone and hue of portrait

As a result of the use of light, the character's clothing collocation and background color selection and other factors, portrait photography will show a different tone and tonal sense. Next, we will describe how to design a different tone and tonal sense in portrait photography.

1, how to shoot High-profile portrait

High-profile portrait is characterized by the composition of the tone of the screen to highlight the main, as far as possible to avoid or use dark tune. For color portrait photography, High-profile should be white, high brightness of the light and medium lightness of color mainly. The image of the photo is in the whole picture, there is no obvious shadow, projection, the screen is relatively clean, bright and soft.

In shooting High-profile portrait, the characters need to wear white or other lighter color clothing, of course, the background of the choice is mainly light-colored. Light generally choose to produce less shadow of the shun light, or in cloudy days, the use of comparative scattering light, photographers can also be based on the actual situation to increase the level of exposure.

2, how to shoot low-key portrait

Low-key portrait of the characteristics and shooting requirements just the opposite of High-profile portrait, the tone composition of the main darkened, color portrait of the composition of the black, low brightness and the color of the middle lightness. Low-profile portrait photos, can make the image of the main body appears deep, dignified.

In shooting low-key portrait, the character should wear dark clothing, and use a darker background. In the use of light performance, the general side of the backlight or side light mainly, and make the shadow of the face of a large number of people. In the exposure process, the photographer needs to be photographed in accordance with a decent part of the light exposure, so that the light is moderate or slightly darker than the middle of the tone form, the shadow part of the reappearance of dark tone. However, when the photographer using shun light performance low-key portrait, should be appropriate to reduce the exposure, so that the overall picture dark tone.

3. How to shoot General tone portrait

The general tone of portrait is not like a high-profile portrait like that to talk about the main, nor like the low-key portrait of the heavy-toned, but in the photo can contain a deep, medium, shallow variety of tone. Therefore, its tone composition is neither inclined to be bright nor darker, but gives a visual sensation that neither tends to be light or dignified. In general, photographs of the portrait are in this tone.

4. Warm-Tone design

Color is mainly divided into warm, cool and intermediate color 3 kinds. Red, orange, yellow and red, orange, yellow as the main ingredient of the color is called warm, blue, green and the main blue, green components of the color is called cool; green and Violet are called the middle color. So, to get the warm color effect of the photos, you can use red, orange, yellow and other warm colors or mainly contain these color components of the hue.

First of all, the photographer can, according to their own shooting needs, selection of the main body of clothing, such as red, orange and other colors of clothing can be the effect of warm tones; second, the photographer needs to pick the right background for the body; again, if it's outdoors, you can choose around three or four o'clock in the afternoon, When the sun is softer and warmer, it can be photographed in a warm, red or yellow light. Of course, in addition to a certain design in the filming process, the photographer can also through the post-processing of software to get the desired results.

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