Hi Everyone,
When you use a tripod for PORTRAITS, do you also need to get a shutter release control? Or, is this last device necessary only for landscape photography? Thanks in advance for your replies.
Regards
Hi Everyone,
When you use a tripod for PORTRAITS, do you also need to get a shutter release control? Or, is this last device necessary only for landscape photography? Thanks in advance for your replies.
Regards
Jorge. I use a tripod for portraits only when I shoot with a manual focus lens. Having a remote control switch definitely helps but isn't all that necessary.
Thanks, Przemek.
Jorge, I presume you mean some kind of remote shutter release (wireless or wired). The quick and short answer is, "No." A landscape photographer will use a remote shutter release to allow longer exposures without shaking the camera.
I use a tripod for portraits primarily to fix the camera position, not to allow long shutter speeds.
Most importantly for me, putting the camera on the tripod allows me to take my face away from the camera and directly interact with my subject without the camera position changing. This is very significant for portraits of children, because children depend very heavily on seeing your face for communication. A lot of problems photographers have photographing children is because the children can't see their faces. But it can be important for adults a well, particularly those not accustomed to being photographed.
I do, however, very often use a wireless shutter release because I often want to move completely away from the camera to interact with my subject. With children, I'll move as close to the child as possible and sit on the floor, staying out of the view of the camera. That's a good way to get a child to stay in one place.
Or if I want the subject to look away from the camera, I'll move over to the place I want the subject to look, so that they can look at me while I'm talking to them, and not just into empty space.
Kirk, thank you very much for taking the time to answer my question.
Thanks for the valuable insight, Kirk.
I also concur with Kirk on using remotes for landscape. I don't have a remote, but I use a 2 sec delay when shooting interiors, but for the same reason of avoiding excessive camera movement when using long expo in natural light.
So, one typically wouldn't do this for a portrait unless some artistic blurring of the model is the goal. For example, motion blur of a model shaking their head/hair.
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I use a remote release a great deal with portraits. As @ Kirk mentioned, it allows you to get your face away from the camera. Another advantage is I often get great candid shots between posed shots because I can fire at any time. If the subjects are interacting, I can get the shot quickly without the need to be at the camera. I have both wired and wireless, depending on which camera I am using.