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Ever wonder why other photographers can take such good picture with people? Don't just envy others, you too can have fun with portrait photography if you practice the following tips.
1. The right mode
This is the simplest way to improve your portrait picture. Look into your camera setting, digital cameras nowadays are often equip with the 'portrait' mode. When this is selected, your camera will automatically adjust the setting and give you the right picture.
2. Getting close
Zoom in to your subject and try to blur the background to make your subject stand out. If you don't do that, your viewers will be distracted by the background and confuse with the message you want to convey with your picture.
3. Spontaneous
You don't need to be so serious with portrait photography. What you want is to capture the special moment. So, tilt your camera, zoom in, zoom out and you can even edit the picture. You can do anything as long as you capture the expression of the person in the moment.
4. Lighting
You need to be careful with the lightings when you are taking portrait photograph. If the light source is behind your subject, your subject will become darker. Unless you purposely want to do that, if not you should see before your snap the picture.
If you are using flash, make sure you select the red eye off feature when you are photographing under dim light. You don't want your subject to look like a red eye monster in the picture.
5. Positioning
New photographers like to take portrait photography with the subject in the middle. There is nothing wrong with that but your picture might look better if you can get your subject to the side with lightly blurred background. If you can do this well, you will be able to show different perspective of your subject.
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