How to shoot a good portrait in the hot sun

How to make good portrait under strong light conditions, everyone is likely to meet this problem, also must learn how to cope with challenges. Hot sun isn't unsuitable for shoot portrait, just need more skills. Read this article, you will still take good portrait under the hot sun.

(1)Avoid positive light

Try not to let the sun to the subject's face. Direct sunlight will leave much shadow, and the direct light of dazzling makes subject involuntary eyes slightly narrowed, look stiff. Look for shade and shadow of the building, or transform subject face toward can effectively solve the problem.

(2)Select the darker background

From a psychological point of view, people are paying attention to photos, always give priority to focus on the bright part. In terms of outstanding theme, the dark background obviously better than the bright background, unless you want to take picture silhouette. Simple look from the visual Angle, light background appear skin is black, and dark background show white; Bright background can let the audience feel dazzling, and dark background will not. In addition, the backlight dark background, light tend to be the subject of hair and body outline a gleam of gold plating on optical margin, visual effect is very gorgeous, it's worth a try.

(3)Reasonable control exposure

Fierce light exposure, exposure is more difficult to control than low light conditions. On the premise of unable to find a darker background, can take back light, but not to face photometry, such is likely to lead to the background image. Suggest set the camera to point metering mode, choose a little dark in the background, or hair metering edge is a bit light. Keep in mind that a principle: strong light exposure, the image is one of the biggest threats, all in order to avoid the image as the center. From another point of view, in post processing link, the correction of underexposed often compare the image correction is simple. So, in the hot sun, would rather underexposed don't image. Try to choose a bright place metering.

(4)Be careful of lens flare

Photographing under strong light conditions, one of the most common phenomenons is the lens flare, the formation of the lens flare with big Angle through the lens of the light reflection and refraction. Generally speaking, the wide Angle lens easier than telephoto lenses in the lens flare. How to avoid the lens flare? You can consider the use of a hood, or physical barriers (such as the fingers) block direct light shooting, and normal shooting photos were synthesized. In addition to using the above method to eliminate lens flare, can reasonable use a lens flare, pictures to add a special artistic effect, to take such pictures, you first need to lower the sun Angle, by 10 o 'clock in the morning or afternoon time after two is suitable. Choose to f / 16 or smaller aperture, the sun will become a "radiant" in the chart above. This method is applicable for most of point sources. On the composition of a picture, put the sun screen corner, or as in the figure above subject from behind his feet. In this way, the effect of lens flare and light will be most obvious.