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Portraits...
To take better portraits with your digital camera turn off your auto focus, and put your camera in single shot mode… Make it your goal that each shot you take is to be a keeper. The machine gun approach only fills your hard drive with junk, and doesn’t help your eye or your hands. It also makes sorting out your good shots a harder and more time consuming process.
You choose where your plane of focus lies, and which bits you want out of focus, not the camera… You choose the moment to press the shutter, not the camera nor should rely on your luck. You should also be choosing the exposure, and ISO too… but that is for another post…
If you are taking portraits you need to watch your subject, be patient and wait for that moment. When it all works. Have your camera fully ready. Focused, appropriate exposure, the aperture you want, the shutter speed you want, framed… composed…
READY…
WAITING
WAITING
WAITING
ALL MOST….
WAITING
WAITING
HUMMMM…. that’s it FIRE….
GOT IT!
Now you have one good shot… No excuses… if your not doing it this way your being lazy, or perhaps you want a sports photographer or a movie maker.
