- Use standard or telephoto lens:A better choice for portraits is either a standard lens or a short telephoto lens. The classic portrait focal lengths for a full-frame camera are 50mm, 85mm prime lenses and a 70-200mm zoom
- Use aperture priority: Aperture Priority gives you direct control over the aperture, and as a result the depth of field
- Posing group portraits: When you’re arranging a group portrait, the first thing you’ll probably consider is height, putting taller people at the back and shorter people at the front. Use high ISO indoors or f/8 outdoors
- Macro photography- break the rules:You don’t have to use small apertures to make an impact with macro photography – using the largest apertures available on your lens is just as an effective technique.
- Use fill-flash-get them to face in the opposite direction of the sun. With the sun now behind them, simply use a burst of flash to brighten up their face.
- Hyperfocal focusing technique: Depth of field is an important consideration when photographing landscapes. It’s often desirable to get as much of a view – from foreground details to the distant horizon – to appear as sharp as possible. choose smaller apertures and then manually focus at the hyperfocal distance
- Level Horizons: you’ll want the horizon in a picture to be level.Your camera’s Live View screen has a grid overlay that can be activated in the menu to ensure horizons are level, and it may also have an electronic level display that can be superimposed over the image.
- Black and white landscapes:If you want to take great black and white landscape photos, shoot in colour. By using your digital camera’s raw picture quality setting rather than JPEG, you’ll record a colour image that you can convert to black and white later in photo editing software such as Photoshop
- Focus on eyes: While eye contact is not always desirable in a portrait, sharp eyes certainly are. Manually select an AF point that’s positioned over one of your model’s eyes, or use the central focus point to lock focus on their eye.
- Shooting from the hip: Try taking street photos without looking through the viewfinder. Select your camera’s Program mode, set the drive mode to Silent if your camera offers this feature, and manually pre-focus the lens at around five or six feet. Press the shutter release in short bursts.
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