Key variables
1. Composition
2. Camera settings
3. Photo editing
Key camera settings
1. Shutter speed
Faster shutter speed for actions shots. Slower shutter speed to capture more light. 1/4000 for action shots. Increasing the shutter speed can also help, when taking photos under bright conditions. For normal poses 60SS is adequate, any lower may cause blur. Also if objects are futher away they might blur, if you are not careful.
2. ISO
Brightness. Higher ISO increases grainess of photo
3. Aperture
Focus on a subject. Blurs the rest. For portrait / bouquet effect 1.4 - 2.8x is good.
Notable variables
1. Lighting
2. Lens
Photo editing
This is highly dependent on the type of look you are going for.
Hardware: SD card reader for computer
File type: Raw file
Software: Adobe Photoshop 2022
Steps:
- Decrease shadows. Can play with shadow curve. Can also brush face (applies a mask) and clear out the shadow just on the face.
- Change Temperature
- Colour mixer. Fun part can whatever you like. Can change the luminance of the the colours aswell, can also give it a hue. For example if you like aqua, can give it an aqua feel.
- Geometery auto-align.
- Crop to instagram shot
- Vignetting effect, gives it the feel of looking through a telescope
- Liquify can remove puffy face. Can change the jawline etc.
- Smoothen out the skin a little bit. Zoom in and use a brush. Use skin softening plug in, and set different measurements. Applies different blurs on your skin.
- Export to Jpeg.
- Save settings as a xmp file.
- Upload to google photos
- Can apply xmp file to a similar photo, check geometery
- Will need to change mask position if there was one applied in the settings file