Have you ever wonder why many Portrait photographer dress up like an army with many pouches around their hip and camera with long lens hanging down from their neck? What about a photographer with a huge backpack and several crew members standing and holding flashes? If you are wondering about these, now it comes a good opportunity to learn more about Portrait photography equipment. One of the most important thing to do a portrait photography is the equipment. There are various types of photography equipment that invented for different purpose.
Firstly, Portrait photography requires equipment that capable of capturing photograph which is called a camera. There are several types of camera that had been invented for different purpose. Each type has different quality, control, ability to capture light, dynamic range, etc. As an illustration, Astrophotography camera has specialized Infrared cut filter to capture the red tones of H-Alpha Emission Nebulae, which …show more content…
There are many kinds of lens filter available on the market these day. The most common lens filter is the Ultraviolet filter, which protects the lens from dust, water, scratch, and prevent the Ultraviolet ray (sunlight) to burn the camera sensor. However, there is a kind of lens filter that is useful for Portrait photography called Circular Polarizing Filter or CPL. The main function of CPL filter are reducing reflections, enhancing colors, and increasing contrast. To reduces reflections, just simply rotating the filter around and stop where all the reflections are gone. Therefore, CPL filter would be most useful when a photographer does a Portrait shooting on a sunny day at the beach. CPL filter not only eliminates the sunlight reflection on water that occurs, but also increases amount of blue color of the sky and water to make it more beautiful and