Studio Portrait Practice

 We spent around an hour in the studio for some portrait practice today. I used Aperture Priority mode so that the camera will change the shutter speed itself in different light conditions. First, we were in the studio to shoot with our model. I was shooting with RAW+JPG, and that was the reason why I have two set of files for the same photograph. I have used the B&W as the picture profile for some of the indoor and outdoor shooting, and the RAW files were just for the backup of editing, which kept the standard and original colours.







There are not many photos but I still managed to try both portrait and landscape for different poses, as well as photographing inside and outside the studio. 

Here is ZFC_2551.jpg. It was a studio photo in which a two-point lighting was set up. 

Below is the EXIF data of the photo.

As shown, I was using the aperture priority mode. The camera will adjust the shutter speed in order to compensate the aperture and ISO setting which were set. The reason why I set the aperture to f/5 was to get a clearer corner of the frame, and ISO was set to 500 so that it can be more sensitive indoor. I set the EV, or the exposure bias, to +0.7 step, in order to have a brighter tone of colour, especially for the skin tone, which might be a bit dark yellow indoor. I used 42mm in APS-C, which was 63mm equivalent to 35mm format (Full Frame), the focal length created a slightly right of composition of portrait.

Next is ZFC_2615.jpg. It was shoot outside the Art Factory.

Here is the EXIF.

As shown, I also shoot the photo with aperture priority mode. The reason why I used f/5 for outdoor photographs is that it can create the field of depth while maintaining a certain level of clarity on the corners and the centre of the frame. The ISO was set to 200, not only to have a better dynamic range, but also to have a higher sensitivity in outdoor environment, which often affected by shadows. As a result, the shutter speed was set to 1/250 automatically in order to compensate the exposure compensation of -0.7 EV. I used 70mm of focal length, which was 105mm equivalent to 35mm format (Full Frame), creating a tight shot.

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  1. Zoe Van-de-Velde11 March 2024 at 04:09

    Good that you have completed this post now - I am not sure what you meant about 'a higher sensitivity in an outdoor environment' as actually ISO 200 is low sensitivity which it should be as you already have lots of light on a fairly clear and bright day here

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