From the course: On-the-Spot Business Headshots

Unlock the full course today

Join today to access over 22,400 courses taught by industry experts or purchase this course individually.

Camera settings and posing tips for outdoor headshots using upgraded gear

Camera settings and posing tips for outdoor headshots using upgraded gear

From the course: On-the-Spot Business Headshots

Start my 1-month free trial

Camera settings and posing tips for outdoor headshots using upgraded gear

- So now that I have set all of the equipment, it's time to talk a little bit about camera settings. The place that I like to start when I am shooting headshots is going to be my aperture. I want a really shallow depth of field. So what I might try to do is stay between 2.5 to 3.5 for my aperture. So let me start there. All right, now that I have the aperture set, I need to keep in mind my little shake reduction rule, which is going to be taking the focal length of the lens 135 X 2, which is 270, and then making sure that my shutter speed is going to be faster than 1/270. So, what's my shutter speed? My shutter speed is currently 1/640 of a second. So I am perfectly fine when it comes to my shutter speed and not running into issues with motion blur at all. So that's great. The last thing that I want to take into account is my ISO. Now, depending on your camera model, ISO can really range. ISO can start getting noisy at 800 and on other camera bodies at 64,000. So you never know where…

Contents