About telephoto lens portrait skills

Portrait photography is the most extensive subject in the field of photography. Whether it is a novice photographer or a senior photographer, there is no shortage of people using telephoto lenses.Today, how to make full use of the advantages of telephoto lenses to express portraits, I will share some portrait techniques about telephoto lenses.

First of all, the benefits of long-focus portraits

Today, I would like to introduce to you the advantages of telephoto portrait shooting.The choice of focal length directly affects the proportion of the subject in the picture, which determines the visual effect of the photo.The reason is that it is easy to use.The zoom lens can zoom in or out of the scene in situ.This is of course a simple composition method, but it is by no means the best way to take portraits.

The advantage of using a medium-sized telephoto lens is that the photos taken are less distorted, the viewing angle is normal and easy to operate.Because of its small shooting angle, shallow depth of field, and significant compression effect on the scene, it can blur chaotic scenes, make characters more prominent, and the image is more stable.

Second, use the telephoto experience

The telephoto lens can bring people and scenes closer together, strongly compress the space, make the image very compact and full, blur the foreground and background, highlight the subject, and obtain each other's scenes based on a significantly weakened viewing angle.beautiful.

1. The benefits of 85 lenses：

As we all know, the 85mm lens is a portrait lens with fixed focus.The aperture is large, the luminous flux is good, greasy and soft.It is very suitable for taking busts in specific situations.When shooting close-ups, compared with standard lenses or wide-angle lenses, 85mm lenses have the characteristics of non-deformation, which is very suitable for emotional descriptions of close-ups.Compared with lenses with longer focal lengths, the 85 lens is closer to the viewing angle of the natural eye and does not compress the environment onto the background board.

Comparison of 85mm with 50mm and 35mm：

85 has a larger aperture to highlight the subject, and the portrait is not deformed.Compared with 50 and 35, the degree of background blur is more obvious.As a portrait avatar, the skin tone of the character has been optimized to a certain extent, especially in bad weather, its color performance is better than 50 or 35 lenses.But the performance of the environment is not as rich as 50 or 30.

Three, telephoto composition skills

Telephoto frames still follow several composition rules, such as three-point composition, diagonal composition, tic-tac-toe composition, etc.In addition, the telephoto-specific sense of compression makes it easier to capture the foreground.For shooting in urban areas, telephoto has advantages in capturing depth, such as tunnels, passages, docks, street lights, etc., which are particularly suitable for telephoto.In the wild, telephoto is also the best choice to bring the vision behind the model.

How to brighten the model in telephoto

Telephoto fill lights should pay attention to the light ratio of the environment.For example, when shooting wedding dresses in the mountains, wedding dresses are easily overexposed.separate.If necessary, you can use the hot shoe flash to supplement the light on the model's face with a small output value.

Five, the distance from the model and how to guide the model

When using telephoto for shooting, it is usually far away from the model, so it is necessary to communicate fully before inviting the model, and fine-tune after the photographer and the model are in place, and can only rely on loud sound.So, again, preparation is important.