Location Portraiture Technique Post

Location Portraiture 

• Shallow or narrow depth of field for portraiture photography. 
• F5.6, aperture as to allow light.
• Manual focus, testing focus by seeing if the eyes of the subject are in focus.
• ISO 200-400.
• 1/200 Shutter speed.

Rules 

• F stop 2.8, 4, 5.6, 8, 11, 16, 22, 32, 64 (the higher makes double amount of light)
• (high depth of field low F stop)
• 1/30s 1/60s (halving the amount of light)
• 30", 15", 8", 4", 2", 1", 1/2, 1/4, 1/8, 1/15, 1/30, 1/60, 1/125, 1/250, 1/500 (main shutter speeds)

• Large aperture   =  low f.stop   = narrow depth of field.

•Small aperture  = high f.stop   = wide depth of field