Saturday, March 2, 2013

Planning Your Engagement Photos

By Lina Esways


With breakthroughs in modern technology, it is becoming easier and easier for people to learn to take nice, quality pictures themselves. DSLR's (Digital Single Lens Reflex) are available for affordable prices.

There is no escaping it, fellas, so gear up and get in line with your fianc because it is going to get brutal.

The equipment alone cannot make you like the professional photographers in Las Vegas. Nor can it make you into an amateur photographer, because anyone can point and shoot-you ask a stranger on the street to do it all the time.

Taking pictures outside offers a diverse problem to photographers: lighting. Properly lighting a room is easy once you have the basic set-up complete.

This principle of planning to make things run smoothly includes even the principle step of wedding day preparations for most couples, the engagement photos.

In fact, that right spot can sometimes be extremely hard to find. Your equipment has something that can help you out in this regard.

There are two things you need to know how to manipulate in order to help some of the worst lit situations work just fine. The first is the shutter speed.

Engagement photos will accomplish this by first introducing the hired photographer to the couple and allow both parties to gain a feel for how the other works with photography.

Or you could choose to open it up for hours at a time. Quick shots are great for reducing the amount of light coming in at once.

Side shots are hard too since half the body is illuminated and the other half is in shadow. It's frustrating how difficult it can be to get the lighting right for a portrait shot outdoors.

The first thing that a couple should consider when planning their engagement photos is to decide whether or not they wish to incorporate some sort of theme to their photos.

When you keep a shutter open for 7 hours pointing at the night sky, the picture will show the stars as swirling curves. It's a beautiful thing for that setting.

It is less beautiful when you leave your shutter open for 15 seconds and someone in the picture starts scratching their belly. The hand and body blur, making the picture almost useless.

Concepts to an engagement photo shoot could include decisions on whether the couple wants to take fun pictures, romantic pictures, passionate or sexy pictures, conservatively simple yet elegant pictures, or more of a reality TV style image that captures the couple in everyday activity.

The larger the hole, the more light it will let in. This setting is great for low-light situations.

Using the same principle as the flash, reflect readily available light to spread it around the face of your subject.

Likewise will the outfits be determined by the theme or concept chosen by the couple, whether the wardrobe be athletic or sophisticated, lavish or simple.

Choose your f-stops and shutter speeds based on the amount of light available. This will have you taking amateur shots like a professional Las Vegas Photographer.




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