9 Tips for shooting portrait(B)

1. Influence and interaction to each other
The most important part of human activities should? be communication, in the process of which varies interesting shot can be captured and can be made into very good portrait. For example the kids are? playing, talking to each other... etc. If your models know that your are shooting them, then you need to be a little patient to wait for a while? until they neglect you. When they are totally relaxed, it's you best chance to capture a good photo.
2. Lights
Amazing lights can make the photo looks more vivid and can give the eye more catchlights.Use natural lights as far as possible.Use reflector panel or flash to make your portrait photo more vivid when the natural light is not bright enough.
3. To capture
Many great pictures appear out of blue, only if you are a good observer and ready to shoot all the?time can you capture those photos.
4. Eye contact
Eyes are the windows to your soul, which can show emotions and attitude of people. Let your model? look straight to the camera, and you can get very good pictures with a lot of personality, and also the model's temperament can be read by the audience.
5. Change the composition
The ordinary composition for portrait photo is vertical. If you want to diversify your photo style, try to make the composition horizontal. In case you are not familiar with horizontal compositions, i'd advise you to watch some movies to learn how those directors dealt with the portrait frames in a fixed horizontal picture.
6. Ornament
You can add some small ornaments into your picture and you'll find the photo was lit up immediately. This tip is essential to children photos because ornaments works great to make the picture more harmonious.

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