Pay attention to pupil size in portrait photos

Saturday 27 April 2019, 16:32 by Elja Trum | 6,529 views | 0 comments

This article was translated from Dutch with the help of AI. Read the original.

A good portrait photo often comes down to the details. One of these details is the size of your model's pupils. The pupil, the dark part of the eye, becomes larger when it gets darker and smaller when it gets lighter.

Generally, a portrait photo with a larger pupil is considered more attractive. You can make good use of this in a studio, where you have complete control over the lighting.

Reducing the ambient light gives your model larger pupils. A flash is too brief to affect pupil size. So, if you take a photo with flash in a dark room, your model's pupil will still be large in the photo.

Make sure you do not overdo it. If, for example, you photograph in a (completely) dark room, the pupil becomes so large that it looks unnatural again.

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