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Little Known Ways To Take Portrait Photographs
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Little Known Ways to Take Portrait photographs
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1. Be Aware of the Lighting and Environment
Once shoot day comes, make sure you have a solid plan—for both the portrait setting and any setup needed for your camera and lighting.
If you’ll be shooting in an interior or studio setting, acquaint yourself with existing options for backgrounds and lighting within the space. Will it be possible to shoot a natural-light portrait or will you need to plan for artificial lighting? Are there clean walls or a simple drapery that you can use for a backdrop, or will you be doing an environmental portrait within the space?
If you’ll be shooting outside using natural light, consider the time of day and the direction of the sun in relation to how and where you want to pose your subject. Early morning and late afternoon are the best times for a natural-light portrait, yet you’ll probably want to avoid shooting at midday, when sunlight and shadows are harshest. Don’t forget that overcast weather can also provide a good opportunity for a portrait with softer shadows and lighting that remains consistent over a longer period of time.
Ideally, your subject should be facing the sun, or at an oblique angle with the face lit to define features, while minimizing unappealing shadows. When composing the portrait, it’s essential to look beyond your subject and check your composition for issues such as a distracting background, as illustrated by Adler’s portrait, below. While it can be easy to overlook a soft-focus geometric shape such as this in the tiny space of your camera’s LCD or when peering through the viewfinder, it creates unwanted tension within the image and distracts from the viewer’s focus on the portrait subject.
2. Learn how to use your camera
Portraiture photography, first and foremost, is about your artistic expression and technique, which takes a lot of practice to perfect. Once you start understanding the nuances of portrait photography, its time to invest in a good camera and lens. There is no such thing as the best camera for portrayals, as most cameras nowadays can capture great portraits. Its a matter of understanding how to use them efficiently under different lighting and environmental conditions.
Get a decent DSLR camera that would give you control over portrait photography settings and deliver sharp, high-resolution images in the RAW format that you can work on in post-processing. Check out a detailed guide in Photodoto for working with a DSLR camera for beginners. Experiment with camera settings so that you understand your tools and can use them to capture the best results.
3. Choosing the right lens
As with all photography, the camera lens is the most vital tool in catching the right shot. Again, there is no such thing as the best lens for portrait photography. It is up to you to decide which lens fits the scenario best. If you are going for a shot where the scenery or background is a crucial part of the picture, then it's better to use a wide-angle lens.
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3 Ways To Know If Your Girlfriend Really Loves You
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1. Be aware of the difference between falling in love and staying in love. While there are many complicated feelings associated with falling in love with someone, it is usually a very passive and emotional experience. But staying in love can be incredibly difficult and requires a more active and involved approach to the relationship.
Think of “love†as a verb, or an action you have to continue to reinforce and support as you move forward in your relationship. Consider how your girlfriend actively contributes and cultivates her relationship with you, and if your relationship is just as good, if not better, than when you first fell in love.
Through action and words, your girlfriend can reinforce and commit to the relationship every day, even in small or seemingly insignificant ways.
2.Consider how you both deal with conflict in your relationship. Most couples with poor conflict resolution skills engage in Fight, Flight, or Freeze behaviors. So, they fight and stay mad, sometimes holding grudges or resentment for months or years. They take flight and avoid uncomfortable or difficult issues by sweeping them under the rug. Or, they freeze up emotionally and shut down, blocking out any attempts at communicating or discussing the issue.
Successful couples who are committed to the relationship for the long term will try to work on solving any problems and letting them go. They will focus on taking care of the issue, rather than attacking each other or freezing each other out.
In a healthy, loving relationship, both partners should be able to forgive and forget, as any lingering resentment that is not addressed and dealt with can lead to further drama or conflict down the line and will work against sustaining the relationship for the long term.
3. She prioritizes everyone else over you
If your girlfriend tends to put you last in terms of priority (e.g. she regularly cancels plans with you to catch up with people who contact her at the last minute, she ends a phone call with you to reply to unimportant text messages, she is more interested in being around other people than you, etc) then it’s a sign that she isn’t truly in love with you.
When a woman is truly in love with a man, she will want to be around him as much as possible.
There’s nothing wrong with her wanting to hang around other people, do things by herself or be independent in some ways, but a woman who is truly in love with her boyfriend (fiancé or husband) will spend most of her time around him because it feels better to around him than to be apart from him.
When you’re in a love, being around the other person makes you feel so much better and makes life less stressful.
If your girlfriend gets more happiness and enjoyment from being around other people, then it’s a sign that she’s not excited about being in love with you and is using other people to fill up the emotional gap that exists in your relationship.
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