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25 Jul
- You need a person with whom you can be well-informed on a personal level, which you can look at, with whom you can communicate well and who does not feel uncomfortable in front of your lens. The interaction between photographer and model is extremely important and must work.
- Think about the location. Think about what is appropriate for your photos and what you like: nature, industry, white wall ... It is really important that the background is not restless or too extreme.
- Take your time and prepare yourself. Beautiful photos are often created with much patience and spit.
- Light. The most important factor for good photos. Hold on to natural light and use a reflector. Portraits you should never snap in the bright sun. The sun makes contours disappear and creates hard shadows in places where you cannot use them. Even a large cloud makes the light softer. Otherwise, I go into the forest or under a large tree. Shadows or a play of light & shadow are perfect for portraits.
- Change the perspective again and again! Your model does not have to stand all the time. So you bring dynamics into your shooting and gets automatically new perspectives, practice, and experience.
- Sets to naturalness. Especially extreme outfits or thick makeup and exaggerated grin come very often cheap and placed over.
- Technical: for portrait recording a fixed focal length (50mm is ideal) as a lens is excellent. The lens is light-fast and produces high-quality images. In addition, you have a large aperture and thus a great range of sharpness/blur. Do not use a wide angle, because you distort your photos. Play with the aperture to see how different a subject can look.