How to choose equipment for portrait photography at night?

If you want to take a beautiful portrait at night, you need to consider the environmental elements and camera settings, and at the same time choose the appropriate accessories, so that you can better complete the shooting work and make the picture look more beautiful and outstanding. Let's take a look at six kinds of equipment that can help us take a better night view.

1. The large aperture lens gives the image more creative shooting methods to get good light and good lens.

The large aperture lens not only allows light to enter the sensor well. In low light, the large aperture lens can also improve the visual effect, and the shot lens also adds a sense of softness to the image. Try to find an F/2.0.

Try shooting the F/ 1.8 F/ 1.4 lens, and you will find that our night photos will be clearer.

2. The tripod increases the stability, which helps the camera to be placed more stably and avoids the blur problem caused by image jitter.

The tripod is a device to fix the camera in a proper position, which can reduce the movement caused by camera shake or movement when shooting, especially when the camera is turned on for a long time. Because the camera shake image may be blurred, the tripod is a very necessary tool for shooting at night.

3. Remote control and cable release are used for remote control

In addition to fixing the camera with a tripod, night portrait photography also needs cable release or remote shutter release to reduce vibration and remote control, which makes our work easier and more convenient to complete shooting.

4. Filters have different effects on images.

The common photographic filter may be ND filter, which helps to produce different effects when shooting lights at night. Some interesting filters provide soft luster, such as fog filter, which makes the subject's skin look silky, light looks soft or starlight filter can produce all kinds of light, which helps to create interesting effects on portraits.

5. Continuous lights, studio lights and flash lights illuminate the subject.

If the light is dim, only using a large aperture or shutter speed setting may not be enough to highlight the subject, so using continuous light, studio light or flash will provide more detailed information about the subject, and take beautiful colors and clearer images.

6. The string of lights and colored LED lights make the main body stand out and attract people's attention.

Light strings and colored LED lights add amazing color and interest to your theme. Some auxiliary lights or lamps decorated in this way are small, but their power is not high, thus creating the dimensions of light and shadow, shadow and bright contrast, which makes the light produce obvious contrast in the photo.