A portrait in photography is a classic photo, usually with a vague background and without a deep subject, in which a person is captured, most often a face or upper body (bust), less often full-length. It is possible to successfully photograph a portrait with either a professional SLR camera or a digital camera.
Instructions
Step 1
Technical skills are not the most important factor when creating a portrait. If you have already read at least a couple of articles on how and from what angle to shoot people with certain facial features, this is already a stroke of luck.
In practice, a good portrait can only be obtained with a good flight of the photographer's imagination. In accordance with the small details of the face, the shape of the head, the color of the skin, you need to choose the background and lighting. Subsequently, you can process the skin, color rendition, contrast and other parameters in the photo editor.
Step 2
When everything is clear with the preparation, we proceed to the second step - setting up the camera. Photographing a portrait is easy. To get started, set the mode "A" on a SLR camera (or "portrait" on a digital camera). On a DSLR, open the aperture all the way down to the minimum value for “f /”. This will give you a blurry background. If you are shooting only the face, from a distance of no more than 1 meter, on the digital camera the aperture will be replaced by the macro mode, which will focus on the face and blur the background.
The depth of field depends on the quality of the matrix of the device, and it is worth noting that almost no digital camera has such a depth as SLR cameras, so the sharpness of the lines will have to be processed in a graphic editor on a computer if you use a digital camera.
Step 3
Finally, the third step is the very capture of the person in the picture. Correct the exposure if the photo appears lightened or darkened. In digital cameras, change the brightness level. When taking pictures, look at the screen. At this time, all attention is paid to the technique, not the model. The model should be relaxed and the facial muscles should not be tense. If a person has never been photographed in a portrait format, a good picture will not be obtained immediately, but only from 20-30 frames, when the model is completely relaxed - and for this you need to create an appropriate setting. But this is already a matter of psychology.
