Whether you are taking your baby steps in photography or have been shooting for a while and want to master in photography skills, these essential tips are important.
Here are the tips and tricks listed to improve your portrait photography, landscape photography and street photography as well:
- Focus on the eyes:
While eye contact is not always desirable in a portrait, sharp eyes actually are! Select a point focus on your model’s eyes or use the central focus to lock the target point on the eyes.
- Use a standard or telephoto lens:
Wide-angle lenses are the great choice for taking environmental portraits, where you want to show a person or element with a specific background. The classic portrait photo focal lengths are 50mm or 85mm prime lenses. These will provide more natural looking photos.
- Use of window lights:
You don’t need to have expensive bunch of lights to create amazing pictures. A window or a reflector will help you achieve stunning portraits. Model should be positioned at an angle to the window. You can use white or silver reflectors to create a shadow on their face. You should be aware that any colour casts will give colour to the other side of the glass as well. Late evening sunlight colour will reflect lots of warm colours.
- Baby portraits:
Natural light is the best choice for taking baby portraits. Try and position them near window to bounce a natural light. To have a baby at their best mood, photograph them just after feed or after they have woken up first in the morning. Keep a kids photo session short and entertaining. You can ask them if they are able to see the reflection of themselves in front element of the lens is the best way to have their eye contact with the lens. You can have the best opportunity when they are concentrating on some stuffs or focusing on their toys. Chat them while taking their photos to keep them engaged. Get them used to the shutter sound to avoid the fearful expressions on their face.
- Shooting in burst mode:
Set your camera in its fastest drive mode while taking kids portrait or a group portrait. Sometimes it happens that someone’s eyes get closed. Burst mode will give you a chance to capture the photo in which everyone’s eyes are open.
- Group photo posing ideas:
Arrangement of positions and poses of each members can depict a relationship and bonding of the members in group photos. If the members are so many, you can use the furniture, whether it is a sofa in indoor or a gate in case of an outer shoot.
