Antonio88
Im going to buy a lens for the first time, for my dslr. Its going to be $700 and I was thinking it might not be safe. I have bought things from Amazon but only inexpensive things. Once a coffee mug got lost during the delivery and Amazon agreed to replace it, even though its reports said it had been delivered.
Anyways, anywhere I can buy camera lenses in Tucson? I dont live there, but its the closes city. If I dont find shops I might order it from Best Buy but I would like to find a camera only store that has lots of lenses available for pick up...
Answer
Most people make their camera equipment purchases from either B&H Photo or Adorama. I have been doing business with them since I was 18 now am age 71. No problems. With Amazon although I have had absolutely no problems you are in effect dealing with two companies instead of one.
www.bhphotovideo.com 1-800-854-5575
www.adorama.com 1-800-223-2500
Good Luck!
Most people make their camera equipment purchases from either B&H Photo or Adorama. I have been doing business with them since I was 18 now am age 71. No problems. With Amazon although I have had absolutely no problems you are in effect dealing with two companies instead of one.
www.bhphotovideo.com 1-800-854-5575
www.adorama.com 1-800-223-2500
Good Luck!
Taking a portrait help?
antoniodab
Can someone please walk me through the steps to take a good picture of a person, let's say walking in the woods on a sunny day. I try messing with the aperture and F stop settings but I just can't get the picture to look like those stunning pictures I see on the internet.
The camera that I have isn't a DSLR but it's a high end bridge camera. What should my camera settings approximately be? Thank you
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This is a huge topic. Books, hundreds of books, have been written about this. What you are actually asking is for a course in photography. I will try to give you some tips, but it is really only scratching the surface.
First of all, you say "on a sunny day". If you mean IN THE SUN, that is your first huge mistake. That is the absolute worse time to take a portrait. The sun is too harsh a light and casts hard, ugly shadows and is anything but complementary to your subject.
Get OUT of the sun. Get into shade or at least use a scrim, which is a translucent piece of material over the subject to block harsh direct sunlight on the subject. In a shade situation, your white balance is going to give a bluish tint to your photo. Set your camera white balance to SHADE.
You can use a reflector to bounce some sun light onto the face of the subject to act as a fill light source. Also, using flash is very common to aid in putting a kiss of light on the face and some catchlights in the eyes.
Watch the background. Do not allow clutter or trees and such to be distracting. Watch for limbs "growing out of heads" and the like. Do not let the brighter background be blown out. Expose for the background and lock those settings into the camera manually. Then use fill flash and / or reflectors to get light on your subject as needed. Don't have horizons tilted or splitting the frame in half.
If your subject is female, bend most anything that bends! Don't have her standing looking straight into the camera like a mug shot. Bend arms, tilt head, bend hips. Think S curve.
Using a smaller fstop number will help to blur background, but with your camera you are going to be limited on what you can use. Try to not have your subject close to any background elements. Do not let the camera select a high ISO, Keep it at ISO 200 at the max, ISO 100 would be better.
YOU be in control of where the camera focuses. NO allowing the camera to pick where the focus point is. You set up the camera so YOU are using ONE focus point, typically the center point. Place that point on the eye of your subject that is closest to you. Lock in focus with a half press of the shutter button, then recompose the composition and take the photo. Don't have your subject dead center in the photo. Study about composition and create an entire frame that is interesting and dynamic.
DO NOT use the wide angle focal length of your lens. That will cause distortion of the subject and make them look "fat" in the face. Set your lens to at least the 50mm marking, even a more telephoto length will be fine, such at 100mm.
Those are some basics. As I said, you are truly asking a question that goes far beyond what you think requires only a simple answer.
steve
This is a huge topic. Books, hundreds of books, have been written about this. What you are actually asking is for a course in photography. I will try to give you some tips, but it is really only scratching the surface.
First of all, you say "on a sunny day". If you mean IN THE SUN, that is your first huge mistake. That is the absolute worse time to take a portrait. The sun is too harsh a light and casts hard, ugly shadows and is anything but complementary to your subject.
Get OUT of the sun. Get into shade or at least use a scrim, which is a translucent piece of material over the subject to block harsh direct sunlight on the subject. In a shade situation, your white balance is going to give a bluish tint to your photo. Set your camera white balance to SHADE.
You can use a reflector to bounce some sun light onto the face of the subject to act as a fill light source. Also, using flash is very common to aid in putting a kiss of light on the face and some catchlights in the eyes.
Watch the background. Do not allow clutter or trees and such to be distracting. Watch for limbs "growing out of heads" and the like. Do not let the brighter background be blown out. Expose for the background and lock those settings into the camera manually. Then use fill flash and / or reflectors to get light on your subject as needed. Don't have horizons tilted or splitting the frame in half.
If your subject is female, bend most anything that bends! Don't have her standing looking straight into the camera like a mug shot. Bend arms, tilt head, bend hips. Think S curve.
Using a smaller fstop number will help to blur background, but with your camera you are going to be limited on what you can use. Try to not have your subject close to any background elements. Do not let the camera select a high ISO, Keep it at ISO 200 at the max, ISO 100 would be better.
YOU be in control of where the camera focuses. NO allowing the camera to pick where the focus point is. You set up the camera so YOU are using ONE focus point, typically the center point. Place that point on the eye of your subject that is closest to you. Lock in focus with a half press of the shutter button, then recompose the composition and take the photo. Don't have your subject dead center in the photo. Study about composition and create an entire frame that is interesting and dynamic.
DO NOT use the wide angle focal length of your lens. That will cause distortion of the subject and make them look "fat" in the face. Set your lens to at least the 50mm marking, even a more telephoto length will be fine, such at 100mm.
Those are some basics. As I said, you are truly asking a question that goes far beyond what you think requires only a simple answer.
steve
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