Tips on Taking Stunning Portraits
Most portraits are taken with the camera at the eye level of the subject. Get up high and shoot down on your subject or get as close to the ground as you can and shoot up. Either way you’ll be seeing your subject from an angle that is bound to create interest. Most portraits have the subject looking down the lens something that can create a real sense of connection between a subject and those viewing the image. And also try 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. This intrigue is particularly drawn about when the subject is showing some kind of emotion. Just be aware that when you have a subject looking out of frame that you can also draw the eye of the viewer of the shot to the edge of the image also taking them away from the point of interest in your shot the subject. Now surely you would want all the attention to be on your picture when it’s on show.
Or on the other hand you can try looking within the frame; alternatively you could have your subject looking at something. You could have a child looking at a ball, a woman looking at her new baby, a man looking hungrily at a big plate of pasta. When you give your subject something to look at that is inside the frame you create a second point of interest and a relationship between it and your primary subject. Another element of randomness that you can introduce to your portraits is the way that you light them. There are almost unlimited possibilities when it comes to using light in portraits and you can get all the
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