1. Be careful not to eat too much greasy one week before taking pictures, and take a rest the day before trimming your skin to ensure the good condition on the day of taking pictures. 2, look at Anping's skin, but every face with makeup has makeup. Don't worry about removing makeup. It doesn't make much sense to leave it for a long time. 3. It is suggested that if you are nearsighted, bring a lens-less frame, so that the photos taken will be more natural. First, props. This refers to props in a broad sense, including all external tools that may add color to photos, including scenery, clothing, ornaments and related props. Although this division is not completely scientific, it is beneficial to analysis. Whether it's shooting on a hillside or by a river, or taking a personal photo with a background cloth, its essence is to use some tool to express the photography theme. Sometimes good scenery can add a lot of color to a photo. Even if the characters run out or the details are a little insufficient, the photos will be very eye-catching because of their small proportion in the picture, and the beautiful picture has given people a good first impression (there is a saying that the environmental factors of the picture sometimes account for more than 70% of the success rate of portrait works, and of course, some people can make beautiful works just by patting their faces). Clothing, mainly depends on the author's creative intention, pay attention to some basic color matching, the background should not be too miscellaneous, and the main and auxiliary colors of clothes generally do not exceed three. Fat people should not wear tunics and pure white clothes, and read more fashion magazines. Models should be dressed in harmony, with uniform styles, and the colors of clothing and makeup should be harmonious. Choose props carefully, photography is subtraction, and you should shrink your picture to the point where you can't shrink it any more. Sometimes props are just "giving action a reason". For example, when a person is standing, you want the subject's hand to be slightly away from her body, but it will be silly to hang in the air, so just let her hold a ball under her hand. Another example is the profile portrait. You want her fingers to embellish the picture. Just putting your finger under your chin may make her feel awkward. Here, she is holding a small flower in her hand and smelling the flowers. The picture may be very vivid. Sometimes you will see a person standing behind an armchair and facing the camera. In fact, he may block his fat abdomen with the back of his chair. Excellent photographic works attach great importance to the use of props. Second, make up. Some life photos can be taken without makeup, but personal photo photos suggest light makeup. There is a saying that the highest state of makeup is that you can't see that you are wearing makeup. Some people exaggerate makeup, but I still hope that the characters in the photos are as close to reality as possible, which is not contradictory to beautifying the characters as much as possible. One belongs to "makeover" and the other belongs to "promoting beauty and restraining ugliness" In the long run, the latter is more vital. Some time ago, a friend who is engaged in design told me that I don't know why those people are so tired that they make themselves unrecognizable and put on wedding dresses. At first I thought it was her personal feelings as a designer. It does make sense to savor it carefully. In the last two issues of portrait photography, I saw a friend taking a wedding dress in America. He said that Americans refuse to pose. They don't spend a lot of money on wedding dresses, but they are more practical on their honeymoon. If the photos don't look like them, they won't pay, no matter whether the photos look good or not. However, they pay more attention to taking live photos on the wedding day. When I was reading the textbook "New York Institute of Photography", I couldn't find a way to shoot a wedding dress like China. Mainly talked about how to shoot the wedding, family photos, churches and parties, and so on. I found the answer from this article. I believe that after the aesthetic appreciation of China people is improved, the practice of posing some fake POSE by photographers will be severely challenged. Third, modeling. This is basically a must-read for beginners. When we have a photography class, the biggest headache is modeling, which is novel and easy to fail in getting high marks, so we all use the traditional way to play it safely. A good shape will give people a novel first impression. If the shape is too bad, no matter how good this photo is in other places, it will basically become scrap iron. There are many articles and monographs in this field. Generally speaking, as a beginner, you can recite some classic shapes, but you can use them flexibly when shooting. Everyone looks different, so it is difficult to make a style suitable for everyone. The basic requirements are harmony, naturalness and beauty. It's a bit like painting red when I was a child. You can paint it red when you study, but you can't paint it red when you want to write an inscription for others. There are some small taboos in modeling, and the success rate of remembering photos will be much improved. For example, eyes, ears and shoulders cannot be completely parallel, otherwise it will be silly; Don't bend your elbow or knee directly to the camera, otherwise it will be thick; Don't turn your eyes up if they are small, or they will be ugly; When standing, the viewfinder should be aimed at the navel or waist to reflect the slender legs (unlike focusing, this is Jia Yuping's experience); Don't be too symmetrical and too stiff; For photos with big faces, people's eyes should not be below the center line of the whole picture; Take as few full-body photos as possible when standing, and most of the bodies are more likely to succeed; On the side, the face and chest should not be on the same plane ... there are many more, you can see the related articles. The successful experience of others may not be useful to you, but the lessons of others' failures are basically useful to you. Models don't have to pose. Generally speaking, let the subject pose by himself, and then you can make corrections and supplements, which will make it easier to succeed, improve the subject's sense of participation and self-confidence, and make it easier to cooperate. You can refer to: "Important Notes for Single POSS" Fourth, run out. The level, contrast and tone of a painting are directly related to the use of light. If shooting outdoors and in the sun, it is recommended that you use backlight, preferably side backlight. Because it can draw the outline of people beautifully, with strong contrast and bright colors. Of course, if you want to fill the light in the front, you can use a flash to fill the light. If you use a reflector, you should pay attention to filling the light parallel to the face, generally not perpendicular to the face. Unless your reflector is very small (filling your neck and chin), high points will appear under your face, which is ugly. Outdoor positive light either darkens the face or damages the image, which is not very successful. Use it with caution. Indoor lighting is very particular. Note that only one highlight is allowed on a face. There is generally only one eye spot in the eye, and at most three eye spots can appear. Excessive shading should be natural. Generally, the main light is next to the person, and the auxiliary light is around the lens. Especially low-key people are not like this. Low-key portraits sometimes have no auxiliary light, and if they do, they are generally parallel to the face (the main light is in the back direction of the face, and the bright part of the face is less), which is particularly important. This kind of light is too natural, layered and charming. My teacher is especially good at keeping a low profile. Later, he said that he ran out like this. Running out of light can make fat people thin, thin people fat, cover up wrinkles on their necks and so on. There are various methods and effects. Some people say that photography is the art of light and shadow, which shows its importance. What's the difference between indoor and outdoor wedding dresses? Although it is written about taking wedding photos, the principle is the same, and taking personal photos can also be used for reference. Fifth, look. There is a saying called both form and spirit; Vivid form, important moment. A good portrait photo is vivid, vivid and infectious in the final analysis, otherwise it is like clay sculpture and wood carving. When is the best expression? In most cases, when people are ready to laugh, they will be very attractive. After laughing, she will stop and let you shoot a second later. In fact, her expression has become stiff at this moment, so learn to capture the moment like a flower. Generally speaking, laughter is inappropriate and will expose many shortcomings of people. Some people shouldn't laugh either, because when they laugh, maybe her nose lines are too deep, or her teeth are not good-looking. At this time, you should learn to capture her moment like Mona Lisa. It is said that Mona Lisa smiles like that because of her bad teeth. I have a beautiful colleague. After a performance at a party, she was not very satisfied with the photos. When I looked carefully, it turned out to be smiling faces. His face was the most charming when he was quiet. A smile will ruin his face. In short, you should try to make the characters come alive. Regarding smiling to take a personal photo, you can refer to "What to do if you can't laugh when taking a wedding photo" and tell you what to do and how to laugh when you can't laugh. Sixth, artistic conception. If a photo is artistic and ideological, it must have artistic conception. Some photos looked good at the time, but they felt backward after a few years. But with photos, it will still be interesting in a hundred years. The main problem here is thought. Some photos are eye-catching but not heart-nourishing, while others are eye-catching but heart-nourishing. For example, many calendars more than ten years ago looked good at first, but when they were taken out and looked at again, many of them felt boring. There is nothing left but beauty, just like an article full of gorgeous sentences, but no thoughts. So when we take pictures, if we use our brains more, enrich the connotation of the picture and leave more room for aftertaste, the lens will last longer in Mika. Seventh, the later period. I've heard a saying that one third of the photos were developed later. I have developed photos in many places before, but I don't quite understand this truth. It seems to be the same. Later, when I arrived at a new place, I realized that filming there wasted a lot of money. It seems that the real place to develop films is a little more expensive, but the number of films produced is more than those in the small shops in Deception. If you are interested, you might as well try the same photo in several places, especially those with good local printing quality. In a good print shop, the effect of photos is much higher than that on the computer, because the resolution of the computer is generally 72, and the good photos are several times that, which is not obvious in the general print shop. The photos developed by a good printing shop are clear and sharp, and the colors are vivid and true. Today, with the proliferation of digital cameras, digital production is particularly important. Even many digital photos can only show real effects through post-processing. Its photo itself will be darker, which is said to leave more processing space for photographers. There are too many methods and skills of digital processing, so I won't talk about them here. But as a photographer, we should try our best to focus on photography, and we can't pin the effect on the later stage. Although it can help you later, it is not real photography. I have consulted several photographers on this issue, and they all think so. Of course, there are many matters needing attention in personal photo-taking, and there are also many monographs on personal photo-taking. Many excellent photographers have been engaged in personal photography all their lives. So there is deep knowledge and no fixed theory. Some novices are often developed on the basis of breaking the theory.