How To Take Better Portraits

In the below photo tutorial for beginners Bach Photography gets you started with capturing portraits from the ground up.

How to take better portraits. When shooting portraits its best to set a wide aperture around f28-f56 to capture a shallow depth of field so the background behind your subject is nicely blurred making them stand out. Whats more you can take excellent portraits with a zoom. Fill the frame with your subject and see how much better your.

To change the aperture on your camera ensure you set the shooting mode to Aperture Priority or AV Mode. While this is good common sense completely changing the angle that you shoot from can give your portraits a real wow factor. Use natural light When photographing portraits inside try shooting near a large window.

Instead find somewhere with nice flat even lighting. Look for a way to put a frame within a frame like a doorway or window. Shooting portraits is a great way to get your feet wet in photography.

Depending on the animal you may get better results if you take the photo in a familiar place where your pet is likely to be calm. Isolate your subject against that simple background you found. Get closer by physically moving in or by using a telephoto or telephoto zoom lens.

So for example instead of shooting your portraits with the person standing up against a wall bring them closer to the camera or find a better background with some depth. Jeremy Cohen shares his tips on improving your portrait photography from how to direct a model to the benefits of camera placement and low apertureMore fro. Framing can add context to your photos telling the viewer a little more about whats going on and where the photo was taken.

Alter your perspective Most portraits are taken with the camera at or around the eye level of the subject. Then use the thumb wheel dial buttons or menu settings to increase or decrease the aperture. In the photo below I used a bluebell flower.