Sunday, April 7, 2013

Taking Portraits : For Beginners

Here are some tips on portraits photography for beginners when using Auto or P mode.

Tip 1

Enable Face detection. It might be enabled by default. Just verify it.

Tip 2

Ask the person to wear dark cloths especially if he/she is dark.
When a dark person wear bright cloth and face the camera the camera adjusts the brightness based on the brightness of the dress and the person would look darker.

Tip 3

Choose dark backgrounds. Same theory.

Tip 4


Fade the back ground.
You may do it by changing aperture. If you don't know what is aperture don't worry. Just take a few steps back and zoom your camera. It focuses on the person and the back ground gets blurred. If background is still not enough blurred go back further.

Tip 5

Keep the person on a side of the frame instead of centre.
It is better explained in the section Composition. Click here to Check it out
You might face a small problem here, the camera may focus on the background instead of the person. You can figure it out by when the green frame appears(in Canon Cameras) when you half press the button.
Handling this is easy. Place person in the middle of the frame half press the button and the green rectangle appears on he person(i.e.the person is in focus). Keep the button half pressed and move the camera so the person is in the side of the frame. Press the button completely.
 
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