There are five really handy tips that you can use in your portrait photography. The truth is that it’s easy to get high classy, imaginative and exceptional portrait photos. You may have heard that there are only two methods of lighting used when taking healthy portrait shots; soft and romantic lighting or dramatic lighting. While this, you may have heard, is a key to brilliant photos, it can be fairly limiting in more ways than one.
(Not to negate good lighting of course!)
Light is one of the most fundamental aspects to good photography. You may have heard the term “studio/portraits”. This is generally referring to placement of light, in a studio, on the person you are photographing. It’s a preferred option for many photographers to do portraits in a studio because of the control the photographer has over the situation; mainly the lighting, as lighting can be a hard issue to work with at social functions and even outside. So for the purpose of this article, I’m focusing (excuse the pun) on portraits done in the studio, although some portraits are done at a person’s home.
If you can come to grips with lighting and composition, you will take great photos with any camera. That is because these two primary technical aspects of photography are common to film and digital photography. Realize too, that there are technical aspects beyond lighting and composition as well, that are common to both mediums of photography. If you can develop good skills in the areas of lighting and composition, you will take great shots with a simple point-and-shoot, film, or digital SLR camera. Lighting and composition is where the playing field between good shots and great shots is equalized across the different types of cameras.
In order to understand how to get the best results in your photography it is imperative that you understand the basics of how to read light and interpret exposure. Learning how to read light is one of the most primary aspects of digital photography, creatively and technically.
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The first rule of success in portrait photography is to capture the positive side of the person you are taking. Capture them as happy, enthusiastic, and calm or generally displaying positive actions or moods then you will be well on your way to achieve sensational photos.
I am primarily a bird photographer.The common opinion is that as a birder you need to shoot rare birds. Rare birds are a welcome opportunity, but what can you do when you live in a big town and can’t travel a lot to other places. That is exactly what happened in my case. My opportunities to travel are limited because I have no car. There are a lot of birds living in town parks and luckily, they are not as shy as wild birds. Here, there is potential to catch some really exciting shots.
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