topic Senior Pictures in EOS DSLR & Mirrorless Cameras

Senior Pictures

osman9501 — Fri, 02 Aug 2013 01:54:16 GMT

Hi...I thought I may try to take my daughters Senior pictures. I have only had this camera a few months. I am still trying to learn how to use it. I feel lost! Thanks for all your help!

Re: Senior Pictures

cicopo — Fri, 02 Aug 2013 02:15:01 GMT

You'll need to supply a lot more info to get decent suggestions.

Camera model, lenses available, indoors or outdoors & how well the lighting will be, distance to subject, available flash other than the built in one. and maybe more.

Re: Senior Pictures

Skirball — Fri, 02 Aug 2013 02:37:11 GMT

By the sounds of it you're new to photography, or at least SLRs (and I'll assume lighting). I'm not going to say you can't produce great quality portraits, but give photographers some credit... it takes more than just a nice camera to take a great portrait.

If you've never done off-camera lighting before, then you're not going to get that figured out in time for these photos. So if you're using available light you're at the mercy of the sun, which is much less flexible. I would research "natural light photography", there's a ton of info on it. And I'd buy a Canon 50mm 1.8 lens (assuming you only have the kit lens). Then I'd shoot, shoot, shoot as much as I could to start figuring things out.

Or, I'd just pay a professional that knows what he's doing.