A natural Portrait shoot
To shoot the simplest type Portraits is to keep this quite naturally. Your Portrait should be the character of the Models reflect:
- Are you looking for an environment that fits your Model. The Background should not be completely empty but also not crowded.
- You can use as a beginner, the Avaible Light, so the ambient light. A Sunny day is advantageous. You can stay as a beginner, however, first of all, in the shade.
- If the 'Available Light' is not enough, you need a flash or a reflector. If you are still not a lot of experience with Flashing, you should have a eTTL use.
- Especially in Portraits, the image area is crucial. Cut never the chin.
- Tip: Look at Hollywood films and you note particularly in the case of dialogs, such as the image excerpts are selected.
The correct settings for Portraits
Portraits work particularly well if the Model and the Background are clearly separated:
- Make sure that your Background (the Bokeh) is pretty fuzzy. This can be achieved if you use a shallow depth of field.
- Use especially fixed focal length (50mm). These are very suitable for the portrait photography, because they are rare distortion.
- You take a picture of offenblendig. Make sure, however, that the Model is completely in focus. An aperture of 1.4-2.8 is optimal.
- You focus on the eyes of the Models. The acts personally.
Portrait with a fixed focal length
Advanced tips for Portrait photographers
If you already have some experience, you can be especially for Portraits creative:
- Shoot your photos against the sun. This makes the image seem more alive.
- Make sure, however, that the subject and the important image elemebte enough are illuminated. To do this, you can use the fill-in flash use.
- Don't forget aperture the sun. Without it, the camera has focus problems correctly.
In a further practical tip we can tell you what you should pay attention to the perfect landscape to shoot.
