Night Portraits / 夜景ポートレート

Night Portraits

Here is an article I’ve wanted to post for long time! It is for portraiture at night, but I will not put setups for all of the photos in the gallery! Well, it is actually more a kind of gallery with photos taken at night! Generally shooting in the night is also very different depending on the results I am going for and the location, but here are some general things I’m keeping in mind when I shoot at dark outside! If I want to keep the portraits more natural I will go with ISO between 800-1600, so in that way I can balance the ambient light with the strobe light! My shutter speed usually varies between around 1/20 and 1/100, but of course there are many cases to go out of that range! Almost all the time I am at wide open aperture! When I want more dramatic look I would probably go for lower ISO like around 100-200, and from there decide the other parameters! Also I need to say that in most of the times I’m shooting outside at night I’m using strobes! The strobes are quite often at low power, like 1/64 for example! In this article I’m having more photos taken in city environment! I will be having different articles for long exposures and stars portraits, so stay tuned! Also feel free to share this article with your friends, and post any comments below, I would appreciate it!

夜景 ポートレート

ずっと前から書きたい記事です！夜景ポートレートは特にストロボが必要な撮影です！この記事にはそれぞれの写真の設定は書きません！どちらかというと、夜景で撮影したポートレートギャラリーみたいな感じですね！基本的に夜景でポートレートを撮影してるときに普段昼間で撮影してると同じで、場合によって光の使い方がいろいろ変わりますが、よく考えてるポイントをいくつか書きます！たとえば、もっと自然な夜景ポートレートを撮りたいときは、感度をISO-800～ISO-1600の間ぐらいにしています！それに応じてほかの設定を変えています！絞りはほとんど開放で撮影しています！シャッタースピードは1/20~1/100の間が多いですが、もちろんもっと遅いときも早いときもあります！もうちょっとドラマチックな感じで撮りたいときは感度をもっと低くします、ISO-100、ISO-200ぐらいで、そのあとほかの設定を変えています！夜景でポートレート撮影してるときに、ストロボはすごく大事な道具になります！ほとんどの場合は弱い設定で使います、1/64パワーとかですね！もしストロボがなかったら、自販機、お店の看板など、町にある光を使います！この記事にはスローシャッターと星空ポートレートの写真が入ってないです、また別の記事を作りますよ！ぜひシェアしてください！そして、コメントも大歓迎です！

In the end

Now, I am preparing a series of new articles on some general topics, let me know which one of them you want to see first, so I get it ready earlier! Also other ideas are welcome too! Here are some of them: Portraits at night / Lens article (I guess 135/2) / Portraits in the rain / Use of gels / Using backlight / One light setups / Shoots with just one umbrella / General shooting portraits / Can cheap lenses make good photos / Swing the camera shots / Using snoots / Shaped bokeh / … or any other idea welcome, post it in the comments, and I will see if I am able to write about it! Also stay tuned for my new blog section starting soon called “Strobist Diary” There I will talk about many of my off-camera flash techniques from basic things to some advanced stuff! 

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