A shooting control method includes determining a handheld gimbal is in a selfie mode, determining characteristic information of a target object, controlling a shooting device of the handheld gimbal to track and shoot the target object according to the characteristic information of the target object, determining position information of the target object in a shooting image according to the characteristic information of the target object, adjusting a control parameter of the shooting device according to the position information of the target object in the shooting image, to enable the shooting device to shoot the target object in a preset configuration to obtain the shooting image, and displaying the shooting image in real time on a display screen of the handheld gimbal.