How can children s photography lighting be done well

Children's eyes are much more fragile than adults', and if the flash is direct, it is likely to cause dissatisfaction among parents, and it is really bad for children. The two things I recommend are to point the flash at the ceiling or wall and fill it with reflected light. The other is to use a high-brightness continuous light source of more than 500 watts to directly fill the light.

There are usually 2 or 3 flashes, one near and one far, one strong and one weak, so that there is a sense of hierarchy on the face and will not become a big pie face. The third light can be pointed at the background, but be careful not to reflect the background of the reflective material.

The way to play the lamp position of the continuous light source is to use a lamp, cold and warm light. Use a large diffuser to soften the light, facing the child from above at 35 degrees to 75 degrees, sometimes with the lower reflector. This effect can create a very warm atmosphere under the background of all black, and the surrounding area is specially darkened to form a highlight ratio in the later stage, which is a special style in children's photography.

First of all, the light position needs to be accumulated over a long time!!

The lighting of children's photography is normally natural, so it is recommended to use soft paper or shoot under natural light.

If possible, start with an octagonal large softbox as the main light source;

Pay attention to the eye light, it is best to have 2-3 colors of light, which is why it is recommended to buy octagonal soft light, and you can also make up the radome diagonally.

Your question is really too general, it's like asking you how to shoot well.

In general, there are three types of lighting for photography, main light, fill light and background light.

1. Main light: For photography, other lights can be without, but the main light is essential; The main light is an important light that determines the child's lighting pattern, and the main light can only play an auxiliary role, and the real role is the soft light box. Because the main light used in modern and contemporary photography is usually emitted by a soft light box, the light refracted by the soft light box is more uniform and easier to control.

2. Fill light: Fill light, also known as auxiliary light, as the name suggests, its role is to supplement the shadows and make the shadows lighter. The fill light can be filled with the same soft light box as the main light, and its light ratio to the main light can be adjusted by the lighting distance or output power.

For simplicity, the light source can be fixed to the ceiling or wall, but the depth of the shadow can be controlled by adjusting the output power.

3. Background light: In most cases, the child will pull some distance from the background. Because the illumination of the light source is significantly weakened with the increase of distance, the background is farther away from the light source than the child, so in order to distinguish the child from the background, it is necessary to illuminate the background separately, but the use of background light must take care of the color, distance and lighting angle of the background.

Children's photography is different from adults, they have more of an active characteristic than adults. Posing for photos is not a good way to show the childlike joy of children. However, children's photography in general can be mastered in the following aspects:

Snapshot: Taking photos in daily life, different from photography in a photo studio, is usually in a place where children are playing or are familiar with it. At this time, the child's expression was more real.

You can give your child some toys to assist in shooting, and try not to let your child pay too much attention to the camera. We can choose the shutter priority mode to raise the shutter speed as much as possible, generally set at 1 250s and above, and then adjust the aperture and ISO value according to the specific ** situation. Ensure that each ** is clearly and accurately focused on the child's body.

Attract children's attention: In daily shooting of children's photography, the photographer may rarely have a large number of foils, such as toys and landscapes to set off children, and at this time, it is necessary to guide children to show naturally in front of the camera. You can simply greet your child with a few words, or throw a question:

Do you think mom looks good? "Let the child look at the camera, and let the child react to the position of the camera by calling for guidance, so as to ensure that the child is facing forward in the picture.

Try using a prime lens to blur the background and clutter the background, you can use this method to get the subject in focus more accurately on the child.

The characteristics of the baby's shed Yuqin is a good chain, so when shooting the baby, it is mainly based on capture, and at the same time, do not use flash when shooting the baby, because the use of flash will cause damage to the baby's eyes.

Children respond to the flashing lights and infiltrate the shed, generally use the Changming collapsed lights, which is also conducive to capturing, and children generally do not need too complicated lights, make a butterfly light bush dry rule, and the children and the background can be evenly beaten.

Dude, this is not something that can be understood by looking at the picture.,Sometimes looking at the picture will mislead you.。 It is recommended that you learn sketching first, so that you can exercise the contrast between black and gray, and then you will feel very good when you go to shoot**, and the light used in photography is an accumulation of experience. The more experience you have, the better you'll shoot.

I'm a photographer. I studied sketching for 4 years before I studied photography, which helped me a lot. And then you're looking at the movie and figuring it out for yourself.

You'll be able to improve very quickly over the next few months. I hope this is of some help to you. Hope you do your best.

There are two ways to play children's photography lighting:

1. Don't have too many lights.

The necessary lights are retained, and those that are not of much use can be removed first, and the best places to use stickers instead of lights are to use stickers, especially when shooting for children, it is necessary to use less lights, because children's resistance is very small, and those lights have some radiation, which is very harmful to the child's body.

2. The level of lighting should be clear.

When arranging the lighting for the photographic scene, we must distinguish the level of the lighting clearly, so that there is a certain complementarity between the main light and the auxiliary, and the lighting can be arranged according to whether the light is projected and the density of the shadows.

In studio children's photography, you can't just use lights to illuminate the characters to get the right **. Instead, we should comprehensively consider the characteristics of the lighting, as well as the theme, environment, color, character and other factors, and I will introduce you to the lighting skills of children's photography, let's take a look!

The success of the use of light is an important criterion for judging the best of the best. Generally, we use light to take pictures, which are divided into shunlight, side light, backlight and auxiliary light.

Shunguang is the light that the light source shoots from the front of the subject, and the advantage is that the subject receives the light evenly, the shadow tone is soft, and the color is well reproduced. The disadvantage is that the three-dimensional sense of the subject cannot be reflected, ** lacks layers, and the subject often closes his eyes, blinks or squints unconsciously in the face of the light source.

Shunguang

Side light, as the name suggests, is the light coming from the side of the subject, which can form a clear light receiving surface, shadow surface and projection. The advantage is that it produces a clear and strong contrast, and the shadows are slender and expressive, rich in layers. The disadvantage is that the light is not used well, it is easy to produce unsightly shadows, and the color is also due to the light and backlight.

The impact is quite contrasting.

Side lighting

Backlight, as opposed to forward light, the light source is shot behind the subject, that is, the light source is facing the camera lens, so the advantage of shooting in this way is that it can enhance the texture of the subject, the atmosphere is strongly rendered, the sense of depth of the picture is enhanced, and a beautiful bright edge is formed around the subject. The disadvantage is that the subject is insufficient, and even becomes a silhouette, with low color saturation and easy to produce light defects.

Pure backlight, the golden sunset casts a golden silhouette around the face

Scattered light and auxiliary light on a cloudy day, when there is no sun on a cloudy day, the daylight is blocked by clouds, reflected from all directions of the first defeat, we call it scattered light, this kind of light is also very suitable for shooting children, the picture is soft, the disadvantage is that it is relatively flat, the lack of light is easy to slow down the shutter speed, hand tremor and other factors are magnified, resulting in a virtual picture. The lack of light is to be compensated, and the auxiliary light is used or utilized.

Cloudy days scatter light

I don't advocate using flash when shooting children, so is it okay to use a reflector? The answer is that it is not very suitable, it is unlikely that a child will remain in a position to take a picture, and it is impossible to chase the light with a reflector. So what to do?

My approach is to find objects that naturally glow as much as possible, such as lanterns, candles, looking at mobile phones, or find a prop to reflect the light, such as books, light-colored toys, etc.

Use the light of the river lamp candle to make the face ** sufficient.

Make use of birthday candles.

Introduction: Like birthdays, festivals, in fact, the most common thing to encounter at night is to shoot under the continuous lights indoors, with flashing lights, it is too unnatural, ** looks uncomfortable; There is no need to flash the lights, and the lights are not bright enough. The best thing to do is to find a few lamps in your home – floor lamps, table lamps – to place next to the person being photographed to fill in the light.

Adjusted into a film.

The original. On the birthday of Little Mushroom, we set up tables and chairs in the family room in the evening, lit candles and ate cake. Only the ceiling is illuminated by two ceiling lights.

The light was not ideal, so I placed two floor lamps on the right and left sides of the little mushroom and adjusted the angle to shine on her. When you put it, you should move the light up and down, left and right, look at the light and shadow effect on the face of the little pot friend, and adjust it to an ideal state - do not have too obvious shadows, and do not shake the eyes of the children.

Drew a simple'Schematic diagram, the stove rubber key everyone can see clearly.

Schematic diagram of the lights.

This set of ** was shot with a 35,, shooting parameters: ISO1000, shutter 1 200, aperture.

The post-Lightroom adjustments are as follows:

1. Basic adjustments:The focus of post-production adjustments for such indoor lighting shots is white balance. Generally, it will be yellowish, and here we adjust the white balance parameters for this as follows.

Another common problem is that the dark part will be dark, so you should add ** as a whole, and then brighten the shadow part, and at the same time, because the whole is added**, so you should reduce the highlights appropriately.

2. Curve adjustment:It is still adjusted according to the basic idea of reducing highlights and brightening dark parts.

3. In terms of colorThis ** doesn't need to be adjusted too much, just to make the skin tone less yellow and brighter to the orange. I didn't adjust the color tone of the separation, because I was very satisfied with the color tone of the original film.

Okay, in fact, isn't it quite simple, at the end of the year, there are all kinds of festivals, and there are babies who have birthdays, try to take pictures!

There are two ways to play children's photography lighting:

1. Don't have too many lights.

The necessary lights are retained, and those that are not of much use can be removed first, and the best places to use stickers instead of lights are to use stickers, especially when shooting for children, it is necessary to use less lights, because children's resistance is very small, and those lights have some radiation, which is very harmful to the child's body.

2. The level of lighting should be clear.

When arranging the lighting for the photography scene, we must distinguish the level of the lighting clearly, so that there is a certain complementarity between the main light and the auxiliary, and the lighting can be arranged according to whether the light is projected or the density of the shadows, and do not arrange all the lights into a brightness or an aspect, so that the ** part of the shadow will be darker, and the bright part will be particularly bright.

Available Shunguang、

BAI side DU light, backlight, straight line light or scattered light, etc.

zhi1, Shunguang dao

It is also called frontal light, flat special light, the light is subordinate to the front of the subject, the characteristics are that all the subjects receive light, the light brightness is high, the image is flat, and the color restoration is better, but the light is relatively flat, and it is difficult to show a three-dimensional sense.

2. Side light. The light comes from the side of the subject, and is usually divided into front side light and rear side light, which is characterized by the fact that the subject has an obvious three-dimensional sense, and the shadow tone level, line outline, etc. are richer, which can better depict the appearance characteristics and expression of the character.

3. Backlight. Also known as "backlight". The light shines from the back or diagonally behind the subject, and is characterized by its ability to create a beautiful outline for the subject, which distinguishes the person from the background and expresses a strong sense of space.

4. Direct light.

Also known as "hard light". Outdoors, it generally refers to the light emitted by the sun on a sunny day, which is characterized by strong directionality, and can form a strong chiaroscuro and three-dimensional sense when irradiated on the subject, and has a relatively tough effect.

5. Scattered light.

Also known as "soft light". Outdoors, it generally means that sunlight shines through clouds, or is reflected by the ground, walls, etc., and is characterized by no clear directionality, and the relationship between light and dark on the subject is not very obvious, and the transition level in the middle is rich, and the image is relatively soft. This kind of light is the ideal light for shooting portraits, and the performance of the ** level of the characters is very rich.

It is used to light a ceiling board.

du's reflected light shooting, zhi because the direct lighting will have a plate effect on the eyes of the dao baby. One backlight illuminates the background, then two lights to the ceiling, and if it is dark, you can adjust the flash output power, or increase the ISO and aperture values on the camera.

There is also a few more reflectors, which are the kind of white foam boards that can be bought in the store of thermal materials, but you should buy the thick ones, the thin ones are easy to break, cheap and practical. Hope it helps.