What should be the most appropriate parameter settings for a DSLR camera to take portraits?

There are many different parameters that can be set for shooting different portraits. Different scenes are suitable for different parameters, as long as they are suitable for the current scene, they are the most suitable parameters. For me, the most important aspects of shooting portraits are the following two aspects, for your reference.

1, ? Camera parameters

Camera parameter settings relative to the lens to be a little simpler, the most important thing is to ensure that the photographs will not be taken because of hand tremors and the impact of portraits shot out of focus. As long as skilled mastery of the following gears, you can easily take their own satisfaction of the portrait photos. The following three parameters, will have a different impact on the photo.

l? Aperture

The aperture on the camera determines how fast or slow the shutter speed is, and if there is not enough incoming light, it will result in a black or jittery blurry photo. So a suitable aperture is very important. Aperture is divided into the following two kinds of reference:

1) Large aperture: it can make the character's edge and the background become blurred, to give people a sense of dreamy atmosphere. It also makes the characters stand out very much in the picture, mainly for the purpose of highlighting people or objects.

2) Small aperture: Small aperture compared to large aperture, it has deeper depth of field, background details will be more rich, used properly, can make the characters and the background are very colorful.

l?Shutter

The shutter can be adjusted to match the focal length of the lens to determine the speed of the shutter, the smaller the focal length of the lens the slower the shutter, relatively speaking, if the long focal length with a slow shutter then, the photos may be taken out of the If you use a slow shutter with a telephoto lens, the picture may be blurred due to shaking. Shutter is divided into high-speed shutter and low-speed shutter.

1) High-speed shutter

It is suitable for shooting sports and other people who need to shoot fast movement.

2) Low-speed shutter

Can be used for creative portraits photography, such as streaming portraits, portraits with slow background.

l?ISO

Sensitivity determines the lower and upper limits of the aperture and shutter, and in general the lower the ISO you can use, the better, but you have to make adjustments depending on the scene. Too high an iso will guarantee shutter speeds and aperture sizes, but it will also increase the amount of noise in your photos. If you want to get a film feel when shooting portraits, you can actually increase the iso to create a little noise.

2,? Lens parameter selection. The lens is the most directly affecting the shooting effect of all parameters. And the parameters of the lens, also divided into two points:

l?The focal length of the lens

Want to shoot personal portraits or ID photos, then you need a 50~100MM lens, so that you can highlight the characters more and separate the background! The long focal length can get a stronger sense of spatial compression, and the relative character distortion is smaller, closer to the subject's own appearance. On the contrary, if you want to shoot portraits with landscape, then you can choose 24, 28, 35MM. These types of lenses accommodate more of the landscape in addition to a smaller depth of field, and the greater aberration allows for different and interesting effects on portraits.

l The aperture of the lens.

At the same focal length and distance, the larger the aperture, the more impressive the background bokeh. For example, an aperture of f1.4 is definitely better than an aperture of f4 needs to be.

All of the above parameters, as long as you can skillfully use after, shoot up the characters can be arbitrary.