TIPS:
Alter Your Perspective
Most portraits are taken with the camera at (or around) the eye level of the subject. While this is good common sense – completely changing the angle that you shoot from can give your portrait a real WOW factor.
Take Unfocused Shots
As photographers we have ‘sharp focus’ drummed into us as an ultimate objective to achieve in our work – but sometimes lack of focus can create shots with real emotion, mood and interest.
There are two main strategies for taking unfocused images that work:
1. Focus upon one element of the image and leave your main subject blurred. To do this use a large aperture which will create a narrow depth of field and focus upon something in front of or behind your subject.
Environmental Portrait
This footballer is in his environment, which is the soccer field, and the viewer can see nothing but the main subject. Him
This dancer in her studio practicing some stretches to improve her flexibility and her overall performance.
Self Portrait
A girl pretending to end it and instead of a bullet coming out the other end, confetti comes out;
A beautiful girl filling the frame with just her being the main subject.
Casual Portrait
To emphasize herself the rest of the background is out of focus and we can only see her, the main point, and in high definition.
Same concept as the girl above, everything else behind her is slightly out of focus leaving her to be the emphasis point.
Questions
I plan on taking pictures of myself and my doggy Lulu. I hope to get a picture of her in Rule of Thirds if she's willing to cooperate with me and not mess around trying to play especially since I plan on taking the picture early in the morning. Another thing I like to do is read books on business, so I plan on getting a few pictures of myself reading.
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