Share the experiences of shooting night portraits with a Canon 500D camera

I would like to give you a detailed explanation of the experiences of shooting night portraits with a Canon 500D camera.

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Take a portrait of a night scene with a gorgeous night scene as the background. Surprisingly, this is often the case for shooting. In the shooting of night Portraits, balancing the background brightness and the brightness of the characters is crucial.

 

 

As shown in the figure, the shutter speed is determined by the brightness of the background building. When shooting at low-speed synchronization, the brightness of the person is obtained through the flashlight. In this way, the control of the background brightness becomes the key to shooting.

Shooting Data

Camera: EOS 500D

Lens: EF-S 18-55mm f/3.5-5.6 IS/shutter priority auto exposure (F5.6, 1/15 s)/ISO 1600/white balance: Flashlight

Shooting procedure

1. Set the shooting mode to shutter-first automatic exposure (TV)

 

 

In portrait photography at night scenes, it is very important to control the background exposure of the characters. If you want to take a bright background, you must use a low-speed shutter. Set the shutter speed to 1/15 seconds to make the background bright. Although the shutter speed IS low and it IS easy to shake the current hand, the hand jitter IS reduced by using a lens with a hand jitter compensation mechanism (IS). In addition, the flashlight IS used for shooting, the light in the flashlight illuminates the characters, reducing the jitter of the subject.

2. Highlight background and prevent jitter-ISO sensitivity selection

 

 

To get a bright background, you can increase the ISO sensitivity while trying to take a shot. When the ISO sensitivity is set to ISO 1600, the background brightness is relatively good. After setting the ISO sensitivity, you can prepare the built-in flashlight or install the external flashlight on the hot boots.

3. Select "enable or disable" to "enable"

 

 

Confirm the camera settings again before releasing the shutter. Check whether the option "enable or disable eye widening" is "enable ". Because the retina is sensitive to flash in the dark, red eyes may appear.

4. Select central focus with high detection accuracy

 

 

Auto Focus is recommended when focusing on characters in dim situations. In the EOS Digital SLR Series cameras, the quick mode for scene shooting and real-time display shooting adopts the auto focus for difference detection (some cameras do not have the quick mode ). In addition, in the case of difficulty in focusing, select the center with a high auto focus capturing force to focus on the Focus, which helps to complete the shooting smoothly. Pay attention to the possibility of occasionally focusing on the background when auto focus is automatically selected.

Advanced shooting skills

Highlight the atmosphere with flash exposure compensation

 

 

In portrait shooting at night scenes, coordinating the balance between the light volume cast on the person with the surrounding brightness is one of the keys. To prevent highlight overflow on the face of a person, you can use the flash exposure compensation to reduce the Flash intensity to obtain the brightness that is consistent with the background. In this way, the atmosphere can be taken more naturally.

Use low-speed synchronization to obtain bright background

You can use the "low-speed synchronization" technique to capture more beautiful night portraits. A low-speed shutter is used to capture background light while flashing to illuminate a person, so that a picture can be taken. Specifically, follow the steps shown above to select a shutter speed that is not easy to shake by hand, increase the ISO sensitivity to obtain a bright background, and use the flashlight to illuminate the character for shooting. Generally, the flashlight automatically controls the amount of flashing light based on the surrounding brightness, so shooting is not as difficult as you think. The background brightness can be adjusted based on the shutter speed or ISO sensitivity. If you want to make it brighter, you can lower the shutter speed or increase the ISO sensitivity.

All right, the above information is the detailed analysis and sharing of Canon 500D camera's experience in shooting night views and portraits for photography enthusiasts, I believe that you have a very clear understanding of the portrait shooting experience, so all of you will go to take a photo of the beautiful portraits at night according to the experience brought to you by the editor.