The main aspects are as follows:

First, do not cut the composition.

When shooting portrait compositions, try not to cut off the body of your subject, such as cutting off hands, cutting off feet, cutting off heads, etc. Such shooting will make people look very uncomfortable, so unless there is a special need to open it up For portrait photography composition, you must take a complete picture of the character's hands, feet, head and other body parts.

As shown in the picture, the character’s fingers, butt, and head are incomplete and appear to be missing.

Second, the composition of portrait photography should avoid joints.

In the portrait composition, generally full-length portraits, three-quarter portraits, bust portraits, close-up portraits, etc. When composing the portrait, avoid the joints of the human body, which means that you cannot cut at the joints of the characters. Splitting the screen and slicing the composition at the joints will give a sense of disability when shooting.

As shown in the picture, the red lines in the picture are the joint parts that are forbidden to be cut in the composition, and the green lines are the parts that can be cut:

Three, horizontal lines cannot cut the neck .

Horizontal neck-cutting in portrait photography composition means that horizontal lines, horizon lines, etc. pass through the head and neck of the character. This is a very common composition error in portrait photography, commonly known as compositional neck-cutting.

As shown in the picture, in seaside portrait photos like this, we often find such taboos in portrait photography composition:

Four, there should be no vertical lines on the head.

When composing a portrait, the head of the character should generally not have horizontal lines. When composing the picture, there should be no vertical lines on the head. Otherwise, the effect of long horns on the head of the character will be photographed, which is very unpleasant. It’s comfortable, but also ugly, as shown in the picture:

Fifth, the characters in the wide-angle lens are distorted.

Due to the perspective distortion effect of wide-angle lenses, when shooting portraits with wide-angle lenses, try to place the characters in the center of the picture, so that there will be no obvious distortion of the characters, otherwise the characters will be deformed. It's ugly.

As shown in the picture, the characters on the edge have been obviously deformed:

6. The characters are oriented in the wrong direction.

The composition of portrait photography should leave a blank space in the direction of the character's orientation and movement trend, otherwise it will look dull and unnatural.

As shown in the picture, the character is in the middle of the composition, and the white space behind is too large. It would be better if there was more white space in the direction of the character:

Seven. Portrait composition The background is messy.

When taking portraits, the composition and background are not chosen well, or the blur is not enough, resulting in a cluttered background. At this time, you can consider changing the shooting angle to compose the picture, or use a stronger blur effect to simplify the background.

8. The main character is not prominent.

In the composition process of portrait photography, the subject of the character is not prominent and there are too many elements in the picture. You must learn to appropriately streamline the picture to highlight the person to be photographed.

9. The character model is incorrectly posed.

In portrait shooting, the model's posing errors are also common composition taboos. There are many such posing errors. Here is a common typical problem, which is that the model's elbow points to the camera. This is not only inappropriate. The problem is that it looks good, but the pose in the photo is also uncomfortable and unnatural.