Portrait photography tip: Limit your options

Thursday 11 August 2022, 15:51 by Elja Trum | 3,278 views | 0 comments

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

It is very tempting to buy and use lots of nice photography equipment during your photo shoots. However, it is often smart to limit your options during a shoot.

When you have to work with a restriction, you become more creative. You are also not distracted by your camera itself.

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f/7.1, 1/160s, 500 ISO @ 35mm
For example, try going out with just your camera and a 50mm f/1.8 or a 35mm f/2.0 lens.

With such a lens, which is affordable but offers good quality, you can take beautiful portrait photos. The restriction, a fixed focal length with no zoom, means you have to be more creative with your compositions.

Set the camera to aperture priority, choose an aperture and focus mainly on the shoot and your model. You will see that you start taking better photos.

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Elja Trum is the founder of Photofacts and online photography course website Photofacts Academy. He has been writing about photography since 2006. Elja is also the author of (Dutch) books on composition, black-and-white photography, flash photography and portrait photography.

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