Here some tips for taking portrait photos in places of poor light, easy shortcut tips for lowlight photography.

  1. Set ‘Auto Focus’ on the lighting part of the ‘Subject’. Then change to ‘Manual Focus’ without moving the subject.
  2. When the light is so poor, almost no light situation, ISO must be increased. Don’t be bother to increase ISO from 1000 to 5000. It can create a bit ‘Noise’ but it is fine.
  3. Aperture’ should be at least ‘F4’ level if the widest aperture rate – 2.8 is not available.
  4. ‘Shutter Speed’ can be applied to 1/60 but to use tripod essentially.
  5. ‘Exposure Compensation’ should be adjusted from ‘-2 stop’ to ‘-3 stop’ accordingly.
  6. It is necessary to be dark or no lighting behind the subject. The better condition is the subject in black cloth.
  7. Need to place the subject into your preference composition as the light comes to the subject in timely manner.

Have fun trying to get fine photos!