Photography
have a lot of genre such modeling, Landscape, Waterscape, long Exposure, Star
Trail, Macro photography, Portrait and Street Photography, Sport Photography, levitation photography, Birding Photography and etc. To make it easy i will try to share
some tips base on photography genre and just like my other article, it is just
a tip not a magic.
1. Modeling
Photography.
Modeling photography main object is portrait of women,
man or both of them. The models are not only beautiful or handsome but also have to know how to act and play their expression. In this explanation, I divide in several sub genre in modeling. Modelling photography is a teamwork between Photographer and Model.
Close Up or Face
Close up photography shoot at almost of face the
model.
Aperture : 2.0 and 2,8 for isolated your Model with
Background
ISO and ASA : Lowest ISO: 100 or 200
Shutter Speed : Slower Then 1/60
Lens: Close Up lens Such as 85 mm, 100 mm or Tele
Lens
Addition and other tools: Flash, trigger, and soft box for additional light reduce shadow such as nose and eyes shadow
Medium Shoot and Half-size of Body.
Medium Shoot are photography that take the Model
Object from from the Head down to the waist
Aperture : 2,8 and 4,0 For covering all of Model dimension.
ISO and ASA: 100 and 200, as low as
Shutter Speed : Slower than 1/60
Lens : 50 mm and 85 mm
Addition and other tools : Two Flash, trigger, light
stand and Reflector and CPL for outdoor shooting.
Long Shoot and Extreme long Shoot
Long Shoot and Extreme Long shoot are photography genre which are take the object in almost body for long shoot and take some background just like a tree or any other object around the model.
Aperture : 4 and 5,6 for Long Shoot and 8 and 11 for Extreme long shoot.
ISO and ASA : 100 and 200 or lower
Shutter Speed : 1/60 or higher for long shoot and
1/200 for Extreme Long Shoot, it is for taking Sky exposure.
Lens : Wide lens, 35 mm or 24 mm
Addition and other tools : Flash, Reflector, Light-stand, ND-8 and Cpl
2. Landscape
and water scape
Landscape and waterscape genre are taking what the
nature give to us. Different with modeling, photographer can not commend it
object in these genre. You can not moves the object such as a mountain or water
fall except your a superman or ironman and I swear iron is not a photographer.
Taking long field of DOP and Horizon is the main idea of landscape meanwhile Waterscape
main idea need slow speed shutter time.
Aperture : 8,0 or smallest aperture
ISO and ASA : 100
Shutter Speed : 1/8 second or lower
Lens : wide lens such as 24 mm or wider
Addition and other tools : Tripod, ND-8 Filter, GND and
Cable Shutter release.
3. Long
Exposure
Long Exposure photography is one types photography
genre which use a long time shutter time exposure. It is sometimes more than 30
second
Aperture : 8,0 or
ISO and ASA : 100
Shutter Speed : 30 second or
Lens : 24 mm or wider
Addition
and other tools: ND-32 or Higher stop, GND Filter, Medium wight Tripod and
Cable Shutter Release.