3/25/2017
Portrait PhotographyWith portraiture your choice of lens has a big impact on your portraits. For portraits with visual impact a wide-angle lens is a must have! Though when using a medium telephoto such as prime lens, the model is still the main subject in the scene, though the background will an important role in the image! Though when using a telephoto which might as well be one of the most important tools for creating stunning portraits, which allows you to zoom closer to focus more on the subject, then you can then reduce the amount of background and foreground in the portrait. However there will always be some limitations to the lens that you choose to use for portraits.
When shooting portraits, it's more important to set a wide aperture around f/2.8-f/5.6 to allow for a shallow depth of field, so the background behind your subject is continusly blurred, making your subject stand out. Rather than having everything in focus, add some depth to your portraits, it will entice the viewer to take a longer look, and rather than centering your subjects, for every shot, take those few extra clicks with some new exciting angles. When setting shutter speed, factor in your lens's focal length otherwise camera-shake will become an impossible issue. Make sure your shutter speed is higher than your effective focal length. Most of the time causing what might have been a great shot that is now trash, and impossible to fix. Remember to hold your camera properly, it could easily better your portraits, and help reduce camera shake to a minimum. Try to avoid all these problems, and to prevent motion blur, you'll need to use a high or fast shutter speed. This will also help ensure sharp shots, avoiding accidental camera-shake, more often than not you'll be shooting portraits handheld. People move around a lot as they're photographed, not to mention blinking and constantly change facial expressions. Try and capture a range of expressions so you can pick which you prefer. Make sure the model is comfortable, take breaks, and just talk to them, if anythings wrong, don't continue to take pictures, wait and ask if they would like to make a different appointment, if everything is fine, still ask them before shooting again if they want to continue. Too often then not photographers usually just stand back and try to get all or just the top half of their subject, make your own creative and inspirational portraiture. You will be amazed that when you take your first step in portraiture photography, what you will be able to learn. Photography isn't supposed to be hard it is about having fun, so please be creative and remember to have fun taking portraits. ~Jordan Shaw Credites to www.techradar.com, and www.techradar.com/author/digital-camera-magazine |
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