The Spring Festival is coming, and there are more and more parties. There are more and more opportunities to take group photos and family photos. Everyone is used to recording precious time with a camera, but most friends are not very professional photographers, so the photos taken are very ordinary. How can we take professional family photos? Today, I will bring you a few family photos and six tips for taking group photos. Mastered these six tips. Holding an ordinary mobile phone or digital camera. You can also take professional group photos and family photos. Let me take you to understand it.

1, indoor family photos with caution.

General group photos, party photos or family photos are taken indoors. The indoor lighting effect is generally difficult to master. Let alone an amateur photographer. It is also difficult for professional photographers to master indoor lighting. So ... Take group photos and family photos indoors. Try to use flash with caution. Taking a group photo indoors is easy to make the subject blush, especially in a dark environment with a flash. Using flash makes the already dim scene even dimmer, and the shooting effect can be imagined. So we should turn off the flash, switch to a bright scene and improve the ISO sensitivity. You can also use a large aperture and a slower shutter to shoot.

When taking a family photo indoors, you can use natural light as a light source. When shooting, open all the windows in the room to let the light fully shine into the room, but it should be noted that the subject should face the window or let the light shine on the subject from the side, do not turn his back to the light, and do not let the light shine on the subject from the left and right sides at the same time, so as not to damage the aesthetic feeling of the face. If there is a small ray of light shining into the house, it is best not to let the light shine directly on people, so as to avoid the situation that the regional light is too bright and overexposed. If only natural light is used to illuminate, the contrast is too large, so a flash can be used as auxiliary light on the front of the subject to reduce the contrast.

2. Pay more attention to the background and composition when shooting family photos outdoors.

Take a family photo outdoors, and the arrangement can be random. If the beautiful scenery is taken as the background, and the number of family members is not many 10, the scenery can be brought into the lens as a perfect whole, and then the characters can be arranged in a line to enter the picture, and its position can be in one third of the straight width. Setting people against the scenery can make the group photo have beautiful ornamental value. If there are many family members and the scenery is average, people should be given priority to when composing the composition, and the people should be arranged first, and then the background should be properly taken into account. In order to make the characters stand out in the photo, you can arrange the characters in several rows before and after to reduce the width of the formation.

Try not to use a wide-angle lens when shooting a family photo with a large number of people and a long and narrow formation outdoors. Using a wide-angle lens, there is often a distortion phenomenon that the middle figure is big and the two sides are small, which makes it look uncomfortable. The best way to avoid this distortion is to switch to a standard lens. However, when the wide-angle lens must be used due to the limitation of the venue, the formation can be changed from a zigzag to a circular arc, and the camera is located at the center of the circle, so that the distortion phenomenon can be improved to some extent.

3. The shooting position should be consistent with the eye level as far as possible.

The easiest way to improve portrait photography is to start with the eye level of the subject. For example, when taking pictures of children, you have to bend your knees or even your abdomen, so that the camera is roughly at the same level as the children's eyes. Shooting up or down will distort the subject, and the closer the camera is, the more distorted it will be. When shooting the subject with eye level, the photos will be more "friendly", because the audience will feel the "eyes" of the subject they observe, and the eyes are often the most vivid place for a person. When taking family photos, we try to choose a main line that can connect the eyes of all models. Keep in line with the photographer's lens, so that the family photos taken are more vivid and true. Pick up the camera and try it.

4, natural and warm atmosphere is very important, make full use of indoor props.

Natural and warm atmosphere is very important, which is called family photo. We don't have to go. We can let the whole family pose or line up. Nature and warmth are the essence of family photography. When taking family photos, you don't have to pay attention to neat arrangement, as long as you can be harmonious and intimate. You can make full use of furniture, chairs, sofas and even floors at home, squatting or sitting, leaning or leaning, making the formation look uneven and varied, and fully showing the active and warm family atmosphere. Of course, before pressing the shutter, everyone can shout "eggplant" together, which will make everyone in the photo smile.

5. When taking family photos, you should always capture wonderful moments.

The purpose of the family portrait is to reflect the warmth and harmony of the whole family. Even if you don't stand in front of the camera and shoot, you can shoot a warm family portrait. You can pay attention to the scene when the whole family is eating or chatting, and take a family photo with a bright smile centered on the elders. However, it is still difficult to capture the picture, so a photographer needs a lot of practice, and being good at discovering will definitely capture the perfect family photo scene. Leave some performance space for the background. It is easy to feel monotonous when the head and body are full of pictures. Note that the discovery of the background can match the foreground subject and give you unexpected goods. For example, when playing in other places, you should pay attention to the use of background, which can leave room for your memory to recall. Why not?

6. There will be surprises when shooting from several perspectives.

The shooting angle is a skill that all photographers must master. If you are a photographer. You can try to use your eyes and lens as a camera. At the movies. Did you find out. Some pictures have unique perspectives, so they can impress you deeply? Photography is the same. The shooting angle is very important. It is easy to create different surprises and effects. The angle of view also has a great influence on the shooting effect, and the regular shooting group photo and family photo can no longer meet the appreciation level of people now. Therefore, it is best to change a perspective and use a brand-new perspective and way to lay out and shoot. For example, you can shoot from up or down, which can also clearly depict the expression of the characters.