How to take good pictures of people
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- Опубліковано 5 гру 2019
- This is how to take good pictures of people. The first rule you should follow is the rule of thirds. When you are taking pictures of people, don't place their face in the middle of the frame unless you have a very good reason to do so. This is typically an amateur mistake that photographers make. Portrait photos look best when the subject is on the left third or the right third. If the person's face is close to the camera then it makes sense to place their face in the middle.
If you really want to take good pictures of people then make sure there are no distractions, like a tree, immediately behind your subject's head.
Lighting is so important. Make sure your subject's face is correctly lit from the front or side.
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Exception: your girlfriend and her friends ask for a photo to show off their cute outfits. In this instance, you throw all the rules out the window.
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In that case, woukdnt you be just applying the Portrait rules? Except instead of just their face, it's their whole body
@@aomafura3374 depends on the background, if they’re traveling and want to show off the background, they probably want the whole frame in focus, but if the background isn’t very interesting, you could probably get away with a blurred background. The one thing you should always do is ask the person you are shooting what they want, however a lot of times they will not know what they want, and in those cases it’s best to play it safe by taking photos with the background in and out of focus, as well as pictures with the person in the center and pictures with more advanced composition. At the end of the day, a lot of people aren’t really able to understand photos taken with advanced techniques, because it’s sort of like you are giving them home-cooked or 5-star restaurant food when they’ve been eating fast food all their life and are unable to appreciate the full character of the food, although the opposite reaction still happens quite often
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Same with a huge group of tourists at a theme park or friends at a bar... they literally just want proof they were there. Just take five decent pictures in quick succession while giving them a bit of "OK serious" now "Silly!" then you snap one or two after. Those last two after they are done being silly are them at their most relaxed and it usually works really well. I do love great photography, but I love your comment because its ultimately a form of communication. If you prioritize your own art before their documentation they are just gonna get mad about it 😅. Sprinkle it in!
Side note: knowing the rule is important but it can be broken. He mentioned to never have a face on the bottom third but sometimes it does create a great photo so don’t always feel needed to follow the rule.
didi you even watch the video untill the end?
Following the rules is far more important and because of that you can end up with many more new ideas 😂 so follow the rules. My dad taught to never cross the street when you see a car coming, and that rule still works today and now I am passing the same rule to my children 😂
When learning something it's always good to learn the rules first and then understand why breaking them might sometimes be great. By breaking rules that you didn't even know existed, you'll make something good only by accident
This applies to all visual arts, the rules are helpful for guidelines. Breaking those rules is acceptable in the right situations. For instance, you could break a rule if it achieves the effect you intend for your work.
In art, it is important to learn the rules and once you have them committed to memory, get busy learning how to break them.
Another pro tips:
- Make sure if someone ask you to do portrait, you should take a literal portrait photos, not landscapes
- Make sure if you are in a tourist area, they tend to be want a full body shot and include the place point of interest. ( you could direct them to move in specific place, to make your composition works
- If they have a group session about 10 people or so, make sure to take landscape photos to increase fidelity
- If you are capturing sunset or sunrise moment, you could apply three point of light with the sun as the key light. You could also set the camera a bit to the side, so the lighting only cover 1/3 of the subject, to make it look cinematic
- You have three angle at disposal, which is high, eye level end low. You could try every one of them that fits the best
- Don't tilt the camera, cause not all people like it
- Most people like wide angle lens, so try to use it, if they have the lens
- Most of the time, Auto mode is just perfect, so you don't make them waits you to set the camera (excepts for night times, because some phones does not have a stable camera for night uses, so you could direct them to a well lit areas)
- Make sure to takes a lot of pictures, because more is good and helps eliminates bad pictures
don't make 100 times the same picture tho
1. Rule of thirds
put your subject on the top right or left third and have them face the direction with the most space in the photo.
2. Don't let the background intrude on your subject. (things behind their head)
3. Blurring out the background depth of field
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Blurring the background is only for portrait photos. And the rule of third is broken in portrait photos because the subject goes from being part of the composition to be the main object pf the composition.
Does the rule of thirds also apply when you are taking a photo of a couple?
@@murphygreen8484it's called rule of the threesome then.
@murphygreen8484 I know this was six months ago, but it depends. If the couple is at a tourist location and wants an object of interest in the shot with them, you could have the couple stand close together on one third line and the object of interest on the other, for example.
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Who is charging $300 for the most entry level photo composition?
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Straight to the point, no stupid intros and useless talk. Thanks.
This needs to be mandatory viewing when you get a phone/camera. We visited Chichén Itzá and asked someone to take a photo… ended up with cut off legs and about 40 miles of sky above us 😢
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I have always loved photography but have been intimidated by the technical aspect. You put this is ways most people can understand and the labeling of recipes kinda helps break these techniques down into a format most of us are familiar with, cooking.
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Single best composition guide I've ever watched. Simple to understand, quick to implement, helps not just with photos but also art.
My mother gave me a Canon 2000d and a 50mm 1.2 lens. I have a lot of interest in photography so I've been looking for some videos to learn the basic. This is certainly the best I could find in UA-cam. Thank you.
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This is very helpful! I'm a painter, and listening to photography tutorials and similar really gets my creative juices flowing! I'm pretty good at composition, but I always walk away knowing a new technique or a new approach after each video like this. Thanks!
Probably the best photo composition tutorial I've seen here in UA-cam, any people with different nationalities can understand what he's saying as long as you know English. So simple and straight forward, thank you sir I've learned a lot.
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Excellent video, Tim. For total beginners, it'll be VERY easy to understand and apply these tips. Myself I am more of an enthusiast and keep learning everyday, especially if it involves harder photo topics. Anyway, am now a subscriber, thanks for sharing useful info with us, Tim!
Tim, thank you very much for this very interesting and insightful video. Looking forward to finally making good photos.
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What an excellent summary of the golden rules! So very well presented.
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This is gold Jerry! Gold! Having never taken a good photo in my life, I rushed home and tried these recommendations without delay. Threw the wife on the deck and boom, professional looking photos. Thanks Tim 🍻
Simple, great teacher Tim. Thank you.
Very easy to understand and informative for a beginner like me. Thank you for making this video. Watching it the second time for me to absorb it fully.
I tell people around me about the rule of third but all they ever want to do is to be positioned center in the photo. They even specifically say please position me in the center, not in the left/right side. And they do it in every scene.
And you let them boss you around?
Hey Tim great advice I have only just started taking photos of people I’ve been a landscape photographer very long time and understand the rule of thirds pretty well from a landscape perspective but I never really understood it from a portrait perspective I’m not going to become a wedding photographer or anything like that but occasionally I’d like to take a few photos of different people and someone in different circumstances and this video has been great at educating me on how to go about it I knew about bokeh but I did not know about the rule of thirds
Thank you so much for sharing all the tips.
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I was thinking this too....
Thank you so much! I’ve always wondered proper placement.
I had a couple that basically asked for this. He said he didn’t want a shitty photo, he wanted them to be on the left and the landmark on the right. He didn’t want a portrait tho. I’ve wanted to dip my toes on photography for some time and this is a nice and useful video to start.
Great tutorial. Think I've never liked taking photos because I want them to look fantastic but they rarely do. Hopefully your simple explanations will make me a photographer (of sorts).
Great advice. Thanks for sharing.
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Simple yet super informative. Nice, thanks for sharing
As an extra point in my experience: take multiple shots! So often that one photo has someone blinking or looking away momentarily etc... or a dog shitting in the background. Once its set up using the sorts of guidelines here keep spamming that shutter button and take 3, 5, 8 shots whatever. Its not like the old 36 frame film days..
the beauty of the digital camera is that you have instant availability of seeing the result whereas in the days of film, one might not see results for a week or two or longer depending upon whether the film had a full roll of exposures and had been taken to the lab.
Don't get into the habit of "spray" shooting or one might as well go to movie mode and then select a frame. Get to be able to get a good image the first time but check the image in normal size and then zoom to be sure it is sharp and nothing has happened to make the image unusable.
@@phlotographer I sort of agree but at the same time how many moments are fleeting never to happen again? I'd rather be trigger happy and get the shot. One of my favourite photos of all time is one of my son seeing himself in a mirror for the first time after crawling across the floor and it was done like that. One decent shot out of about 10 slightly blurry ones!! I didn't want to lose time checking photos in the moment.
This is excellent, easy to understand info for beginners like me. Thanks
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Please do not max out the digital zoom :)
as a film bro who has no idea how to use a camera and has a partner who wants me to take better pics of them i appreciate this
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Thanks for telling us the rule of thumbs. Nowadays, using digital camera or smartphones give us easier to learning more about photography. Saving quit a lot of money.
Im a beginner and i think this vid helps me to start on doing good pics..thank u very much.👍😊
I travelled europe and asked a lot of strangers to take my picture and a lot of people need to see this video lol, great video, simple and concise.
Same with me. At this point I can say I am fascinated by the amount of people who don't have any kind of aesthetic sense when they frame a picture. And that includes all generations. In a time where we are all surrounded by pictures everywhere, this is difficult for me to understand.
Im watching this for when the time comes i won't disappoint anyone with my photography skills.
Wow thank you so much, good sir.
🙂 thanks for the info, im going to share this & hopefully impliment it in my own videos
The photo with the lady on the blue beach is so good
There's a great example of how to break the rule of third on Mr.Robot. They tend to place the subject facing outward instead of inward, and that brings a sort of tension and unsettling feeling to the scene.
Very cool stuff.
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One thing that I find interesting is that I learned 90% of these tips by myself, some photos I took, for example one I took of my cousin, she still uses it as wallpaper on her cell phone
A good review of the basics ...
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step 4. Camera height in relation to sub eyes.
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I was talking about this topic yesterday, interesting that this video is shown to me just a day later
Such a clean and nice explaination
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Another trick: if you can't change the aperture in your camera, but have optical zoom, you can step back and zoom in, this will create a lot of background blur. If your phone has a telephoto camera you can use this instead of relying on post-processing
I once had a friend try to tell me this information, and I didn't understand it, thinking he was crazy. Hehehe! This was well presented, thank you for creating this!
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I have always done these things intuitively.
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Great tips!! Something cool I learned about posing for portraits is to have the person stand with their weight more on one leg than the other. If using natural light, use the light coming from the side so the facial features of their face are highlighted better. :-)
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