If you take better pictures of family and friends follows portrait photography tips. With a little practice you can and you'll see these techniques and your friends at the quality. If you're not on top of the line equipment, do not worry, these tips can be used many more.
Although it is true that with a digital SLR, you can create specific techniques and lenses to large portraits, a lot of the lower end camerasincluding point-and-shoot cameras have a certain amount of flexibility that will help you use these tips for portrait photography.
Blur the background
If your camera adjustments, set the F-stop to a small number. This will give you a wide opening in the lens, which in turn gives you a minimum depth of field. That is, what you focus on at the center, but what is front of and behind the focal point. If you have a point-and-shoot "Digital camera that offers options for image, take a picture of a portrait. This achieve a similar effect.
Lighting is Key
Whenever possible, use both light and flash back to fill together. Have you ever noticed portraits, if the person looks well lit, but something just looks flat and you can tell, it's not a professional portrait? This is because the professional portrait photographer put a light source behind the subject. Often it is only alittle light on the floor behind the subject, sometimes the light source is higher. The point is to have a light source behind the person. This light source is next to the light before men.
What does the back light is the person on the road and away from the background. So if you are not handy with a club, what you have. Outside you can enjoy the sun, or some other source of light. Set your camera with flash, even if there is sufficient light available. The camera settingsshould compensate for this light to give you a correct exposure. Warning - without the front light the subject seem to be backlit, and you'll lose detail in her face.
Be aware of the background
Then use a background that is easy, especially if you do not set your camera to erase it completely and do not have a high-end portrait lens with it for you. Extra detail in the frame away from the primary subject of the composition. This is acommon mistake of amateur portrait photographers.
Composition
Where are you placing the subject within the picture frame? Not randomly cut off body parts! Also, not too far off topic. Think this will be one, is "face shot" or a little further back, as on the body, or it will embrace the whole person. Be careful if it does not cut off their feet!
Think of the viewfinder as a picture frame. Use the,"Rule of thirds." If you are not familiar with this term, it basically means to divide the picture into imaginary thirds, which breaks down into nine equal boxes. You can do this by visualizing two horizontal and two vertical lines which do together this grid. Where the lines meet or intersect, where the main subject should be placed. Try this. It makes for an interesting photo, as if the person is in the middle of the frame.
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