Portrait Tips: How to make the arms or legs will not look very duffel?

Firstly, it must be noted, that to put a correct posture can hide the defects. Basically, it is not recommended to let the arms and legs spread out straight, but to put the arms and legs in overlapping position.

If specified, the model has to put the arms behind the body or cross arms, while the legs are moving cross standing on it. Because the crossing / overlapping legs posture, often appears in fashion magazines. Thus, the model would not be surprised and very easy to put a good-looking stance. This posture also has the benefit of people with O-leg stand. It can help to hidden the O-leg shape instead of a beautiful effect of overlapping / crossing posture.

Sometimes using Tilt-shift lens and other auxiliary equipment, managed to look more uniform body proportion. If you adjust the lens optical asix  movement, the legs will look more slender.

Or you can use wide-angle lens when shooting from the bottom up, head looks small, and the model's legs look more slender.

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Portrait Tips: How to get a well communication in advance, when cooperate with a new amateur model?

In the first meeting with an amateur model, you can start to chat with some interest topic. That can slowly know more about the model's character and style. Or ... in the middle of the photo shooting, usually it is very difficult to buy snacks and drinks. Therefore, you can ask the model what you want, then talk about food, clothing or favorite music. You will discover that the topic has been expended. Also, you had a better knowing about the new amateur model. Or you can play some small tricks, give the model a surprise, in order to observe the responses, you can identify a person's character as well.


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Portrait tips - Another stylish composition skill

Most of the photos, if it is not horizontal, then it should be vertical. If this picture style can be overcome, then the picture will look very differet. Nowadays, more popular portrait style, is to turn a small angle of the camera, so that the characters are presented in diagonal direction. This technique should be very easy, you only have to adjust angle of camera to left or right turn, then press the shuttler. You may need to try a several pictures, in order to identify the most suitable composition. Although the technique have been in existence for many years, recently it become popular again.

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Travel photography tips: Shooting the famous landmarks

When shooting the famous landmarks, you must be very clear that, many people has already taken the same picture with no less than millions of times. It almost hard to shoot a pictures with any new ideas (Although it is possible, but it must be very difficult). There are several ways for you  to interpret a new perspective on shooting the well-known landmarks:

1. Avoid the landmark to be the subject in the photos. For example, if you want to take a picture in London, the theme of that picture can be a couple, and they are holding hands, walking in the streets. And the London tower bridge is clearly visible in the background. Even if you can clearly see the well-known places. but it was not the subject in the photo. 


2. Try to use reflection to capture the famous landmarks, such as window or water. For example, find a London coffee shop, and then take a picture to the coffee shop's window, that reflect the London Tower Bridge, or to use a car's windshield to take the reflective image of the object.


3. Only take part of the details of the famous landmark, and is able to represent the whole part of the landmark.

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Portrait Tips: Do not leave too much space above the head

Most people will commit a fault while taking pictures for others, it is leaving too much unnecessary space above the head. This is a very common mistake of amateur photographers, but forunately, this is not difficult to solve.


How to solve it? Do not take picture like that!


As long as the subject's eyes are located at the picture, that about one-third from the top, then you will naturally do not leave too much head space, of course, the problem will be resolved

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