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Portrait Tips & Tricks

Portrait Tips & Tricks. What is Portrait Photography?. Photographs of people , usually one person in the photograph, where the person is the emphasis Face and expression is predominant The objective is to display the likeness, personality, and even the mood of the subject

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Portrait Tips & Tricks

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  1. Portrait Tips & Tricks

  2. What is Portrait Photography? • Photographs of people, usually one person in the photograph, where the person is the emphasis • Face and expression is predominant • The objective is to display the likeness, personality, and even the mood of the subject • focus of the photograph is the person's face, although the entire body and the background may be included. A portrait is generally not a snapshot, but a composed image of a person in a still position.

  3. Alter your Perspective Instead of taking your portrait at eye-level, try and take the photo from above or below your subject

  4. Eye Contact Looking off camera - have your subject focus their attention on something unseen and outside the field of view of your camera. This can create a feeling of candidness and also create a little intrigue and interest as the viewer of the shot wonders what they are looking at

  5. Rule of Thirds Don’t always place your subject dead center. Using your grid/guide, place your subject to the far left/right, or up/down in the corners.

  6. Experiment with Lighting Side-lighting can create mood, backlighting and silhouetting your subject to hide their features can be powerful.

  7. Introducing a Prop Add a prop of some kind into your shots and you create another point of interest that can enhance your shot.you might run the risk of taking too much focus away from your main subject but you could also really add a sense of story and place to the image that takes it in a new direction and gives the person you’re photographing an extra layer of depth that they wouldn’t have had without the prop.

  8. Focus upon one body part-Get close up Get right in close so that you can just photograph a part of your subject. Photographing a person’s hands, eyes, mouth or even just their lower body… can leave a lot to the imagination of the viewer of an image.

  9. Play with backgrounds The person in your portrait is the main point of interest - however sometimes when you place them into different contexts with different backgrounds you can dramatically alter the mood in a shot.

  10. Fill the Frame One way to ensure that your subject captures the attention of the viewer of your portrait is to fill the frame with their face. It’s not something that you’d do in every shot that you take - but if your subject is the only feature in the shot - there’s really nowhere else to look.

  11. Obscure part of your subject A variation on the idea of zooming in on one part of the body is to obscure parts of your portrait subject’s face or body. You can do this with clothing, objects, their hands or just by framing part of them out of the image.

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