The "Portrait Photography in Progress" series is created to help entry-level portrait photographers express portrait themes more maturely and successfully. It strives to help readers clear up the problems they will encounter on the road to portrait photography through in-depth and detailed case analysis, and trigger readers to think and expand at a deeper level, achieving the learning effect of drawing inferences from one example. This set of books provides a unique learning system - theoretical foundation, case analysis and wonderful comments. It is worth reading once or twice. In the process of learning and understanding, you will find that you have become stronger and more mature.
"Portrait Photography in Progress: Perfect Composition" focuses on the core technique of composition and explains the knowledge and essentials of composition in detail. The book starts with perspective, analyzing lens perspective, line perspective and atmospheric perspective, allowing you to learn to express the relationship between characters and space. Then, the book analyzes the simplicity principle of composition and teaches you how to achieve a just right balance between the subject and the background. Next, the problem of framing is analyzed. From the perspective of framing, there are horizontal frames, vertical frames, and square frames. Each frame will affect the behavior of composition; from the perspective of framing, there are three categories: looking down, looking up, and looking up. Each angle will affect the expression of the picture. In addition, this book also analyzes issues such as the control of depth of field, the creation of a three-dimensional sense of space, the presentation of tones, and the use of colors. Finally, this book provides a detailed analysis of close-ups and half-length portraits that are common in portrait photography, so that you can be confident when facing your subjects.
Each knowledge point in this book can be intuitively and productively understood through detailed case explanations and picture analysis, which not only helps beginners to quickly understand and master it, but is also more useful and inspiring for photographers with certain experience in portrait shooting.
